AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

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We created this site to hear your enhancement ideas, suggestions and feedback about AVEVA products and services. All of the feedback you share here is monitored and reviewed by the AVEVA product managers.

To start, take a look at the ideas in the list below and VOTE for your favorite ideas submitted by other users. POST your own idea if it hasn’t been suggested yet. Include COMMENTS and share relevant business case details that will help our product team get more information on the suggestion. Please note that your ideas and comments are visible to all other users.


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Data Archive

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Add Archive Statistics to AFSDK

I would like to be able to request current Event Queue, Primary Event Queue, and Archive Events counters programmatically in order to perform my own throttling when backfilling from external systems. This becomes especially important if you also h...
Le vi about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Export Multiple Audit Logs into one XML/TXT File

The pidiag -xa utility doesn't support selecting a folder location and exporting the contents to a single XML/TXT file. This would be very helpful for bulk auditing actions.
Guest over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Auto Archive Management - Shift vs. Delete

Currently, there are two methods to 'shift' archives: 1. "Archive_AutoArchiveFileRoot" set to blank 2. "Archive_OverwriteDataOnAutoShiftFailure" enabled Neither method shifts to dynamic archives. We have three sites that merged PI servers, thus ha...
Pete Long over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Store a timestamp of when an event enters the archive database

We have a use case that could be solved very easy if we have had this as a column in the data archive. Use case: We have made PI data availible through an own made API to our clients. They use this API to fetch data from our database and into thei...
Ole Dybsjord Skarsvag about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

PI Archive File header should keep track of last modified recno

The PI Archive File should keep track of the last modified RecNo. This would make cases where historical archive last modified times are updated (and potentially causing large backups) much easier to track down. In particular, this feature combin...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Digital State Sets and Bit Flags

a common data type encountered are Double Integers as bit flags, where different combinations of each bit of the binary representation of the double integer corresponds to a state. PI's Digital State Sets do not handle these well. First, it requi...
Matt Voll over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 7 No status

Have the ability to change PI Message log file configuration (Size, Duration etc)

If verbose logging is setup for applications such as (PI Batch) which write to the PI message log (or if you have very busy PI servers with lots of logs), the file sizes can get to several GB in size. It would be good to have the ability to config...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Ability to store metadata information for PI data

For forecasts, probabilities are assigned to each forecast data. It would be helpful to be able to store this information (metadata) for each forecast value.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Dynamic digital state sets

Currently, the values of string tags are stored in full for each event, which is a waste of space for string tags that have the same values appearing frequently. To save space, a digital tag can be used instead. However, to create this tag's digit...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Dictionary encoding of strings in string tags

Currently, the values of string tags are stored in full for each event, which is a waste of space for string tags that have the same values appearing frequently. To save space, please use dictionary encoding (AKA dictionary coding or dictionary co...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status