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PI Interfaces

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PI EMDVB Interface - Rename Parsed Files

PI EMDVB Interface - Rename Parsed Files.  Files that get renamed to .999 is no longer available with PI EMDVB.  This file renaming feature was very useful from a system maintenance perspective.  We would easily remove .999 from the...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 Declined

Capture data from ABB 800xA that doesn't follow ISA88

ABB 800xA offers a batch capture mode that is more flexible than ISA88 since it doesn't match all unit procedures to units, but rather acquires them at the beginning of the batch. Currently the interface is designed to only retrieve batches that f...
Alan Izar over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 3 Declined

PI Interface for Bacnet: Adding support of ObjectType=Timer

We would like to get a value of ObjectType=Timer object in PI BACNet interface but it is not supported. One of the Timer object contains important time setting and we need to check it every month. However currently we need to check the value from ...
Kenji Hashimoto 5 months ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 1 Declined

Enable logging of 5.x batch interface messages to the local PI message log again

Message logs for 5.X Batch interfaces and Connectors are written to Windows Event Viewer instead of PI Message Logs as in previous versions. The Windows Event Log is extremely slow compared to viewing PI message logs, the filtering is worse, the m...
Guest over 1 year ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 2 Declined

Delete mode in Wonderware InBatch interface

When run in delete mode for WWInBatch interface, it uses the data source as the system of record--any open batch in SQL will be deleted. However, as abandoned or done  batches are open in WonderWare but closed in PI, the interface may delete ...
Willy Seah Wei Liat over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 Declined

choose PI API Version during installation

At the moment PI API 1.x without Windows Integrated Security is installed as standard. For customers who want to use PI API 2.x with Windows Integrated Security an additional installation is needed. please include both APIs in install-pack and ask...
FranzK over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Installation 2 Declined

Suppress creation of an AF Element hierarchy

As a PI Admin, I may have already created a AF Element Hierarchy corresponding to my BES or MES source data. Therefore I have no need for the interface to create a new AF Elements and I would like to suppress this completely.
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 Declined

RDBMS to Eventframe Batch Interface

a lot of your existing Batch Interfaces are based on RDBMS (Simatic Batch, DeltaV, ABB). But there will always be some Batchstorage solutions based on a relational database which are not included in your source system list. For now Honeywell Proce...
juergen.b.schmidt over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 Declined

PI Event Frames Interface Manager

Hello, the PI Event Frames Interface Manager application must be run in the same machine that hosts the PIEFGen interface. This is an issue regarding our security rules because, the PIEFgen interface runs in secured machines and we don't want to a...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Batch Interfaces 0 Declined

EFGEN multi language support for event frame name

Hi, Existing EFGEN does not seem to support multi language (Double bytes characters) inputs for Event frame name. This result in the event frames names are being recorded in English char only. Would it be possible to implement the multi-langua...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Other Interfaces 1 Declined