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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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Reprocess fixed archives to dynamic or visa versa

Currently, PI SMT will only allow archives to be reprocessed according to it's original type. User would like to be able to choose whether to reprocess the archives from fixed to dynamic or vice versa.
Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

Allow renaming of diagnostic tags for batch interfaces

Batch interfaces should follow a similar approach to UniInt based interfaces to retrieve the diagnostic tags. That is to say they should pull the diagnostic tags based on the PointSource, Location1, and ExDesc, not a hardcoded name based purely on...
Guest almost 4 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 1 No status

Support for Key Pair Authentication

Currently, PI ICU authentication relies on traditional username/password methods. However, this authentication approach is becoming increasingly obsolete and is not supported by many of the modern platforms and security frameworks we are required ...
Kareema Ramli 11 months ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface Configuration Utility (PI ICU) 0 No status

Apply correct localhost.tz file during PI Data Archive installation

To account for the different historical implementations of Daylight Saving Time in different regions, a localhost.tz file is added to the %piserver%\dat directory after installation. As an installer of PI Data Archive, I would like the localhost.t...
Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

PI Archive ability to recover from drive disconnect

With everyone having virtual servers these days the host VM and SAN storage are on separate devices. When the storage device is unavailable or disconnected even briefly, the PI Archive process errors and gets DISABLED and can ONLY be restarted by ...
Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 2 No status

2 factor authentication

As a user, I would like PI Data Archive to provide 2 factor authentication.
Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

For PItoPI interface having a source PI-HA server, allow failover on source without using PI interface status utility.

For PItoPI interface having a source PI-HA server, allow failover on source without using PI interface status utility. This should allow failover based on connectivity and/or a watchdog (like failover if a specific tag stay stale for a configurabl...
Guest almost 4 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI to PI Interface 0 No status

Allow the UFL interface to delete PI tag data or provide some other supported automated method of deleting PI data from a collective.

There is no way to easily delete data in a time range if you want the changes to occur on both the primary and secondary data archive. It seems the UFL interface would be good to use to do this. You could provide it a tag name and time range and t...
Heather Boehler almost 4 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for UFL 3 No status

PI Data Archive - import tags and merge historic archives together

As a customer who is moving their PI Data Archive historic data to a Centralized IT Facility, hosting another PI Data Archive, and that would like to import tags and historic data from another PI Data Archive, it would be great to have a functiona...
Guest almost 4 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Log bad timestamps for the PI RDBMS Interface

When the PI RDBMS Interface gets a bad timestamp from the source RDB that it cannot coerce into a PI Timestamp, the actual bad timestamp received from the RDB should be logged as part of the error message. This would coincide with the following e...
Guest almost 4 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for RDBMS 0 Future consideration