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.

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Data Archive

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Automated re-compression/average after a period of time

As a PI Administrator, currently there is no way to compress or average (then delete) your data automatically after an event reaches a certain age. It would be nice to have the ability to automatically compress or average specific tags after the e...
Guest almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 2 Declined

Store the timestamp an event arrives at the Data Archive, in addition to the timestamp of the event itself

Currently, the Data Archive stores the timestamp of an event as well as it's value. It would be useful to also store the timestamp at which the event arrives at the Data Archive (perhaps this could be a configurable option set for individual tags)...
Guest almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Enhance tag search and message log filters via logical operators

Proposed features - search for TAGS in PI SMT using also logical operators (like AND, OR and NOT) to refine the search criteria -  search for MESSAGE LOGS in PI SMT using also logical operators (like AND, OR and NOT) to refine the search criter...
Guest almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 3 Declined

Buffer subsystem to handle deleted values

Can buffer subsystem be enhanced to manage value deletions from tags? We have a collective and utilize buffering to send data to both collective members however we have to jump through hoops to delete data from both collective members. It would be...
ehoffman almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No Status

smarter calculation of PI Backup required free space

When backfilling tags from AF its very easy to update many archives. I would like the backup script to only require free space for archives that don't exist in the target folder. We have periodic incremental backup failures do to a lack of free di...
Guest almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 3 No Status

Replace the batch (.bat) scripts in the %PISERVER% folder with PowerShell (.ps1) scripts

This replacement is appropriate for several reasons: PowerShell is easier to read and is a more powerful language than the batch language. Batch scripts are best used in Windows, whereas PowerShell is cross-platform. This replacement will support ...
Kenneth Barber almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No Status

Optimize and compress non-primary historic archive files

Currently, the same file format is used for primary and non-primary historic archive files. This does not make much sense since the two types are used very differently. For the primary archive: Write operations should be fast since it is collectin...
Kenneth Barber almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 4 No Status

Provide more user-friendly way to configure backups

As a PI admin, I wish there was a GUI way to set up backup tasks instead of needing to go to the command line to set up my backup task. (FS, 415 hrs) As a PI admin, I have a hard time setting up backup scripts to write to an external data source...
Guest almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Store thread history along with connection history in the server

Storing the thread history(pibasess/piarchss etc) along with the connection history will help to better understand and troubleshoot issues on the archive and will serve as a kind of auditing on the behavior of connections.
Guest almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

PI collective with shared archives

Allow the Primary Data Archive server read-write access to any shared archives. All Secondary data archive servers would have read-only access. This would fix case Case # 925881. We have tags with old timestamps, for example, environmental limits,...
Guest almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined