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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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Possibility to change units of template based attributes

I have template based elements including analysis that can be used for calculations with a variety of units (tonnes, MWh,...). So it would be great to have the possibility to change the units of template based attributes. At the moment they are fi...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 5 No status

Add option to clear buffer errors to the Buffering Manager

Currently users have to use the command line tools to clear buffer point errors. It would be useful and enhance O&M if these errors could be cleared directly from the UI rather than just viewed.Bonus points for allowing users to clear all, mul...
Shawn McNabb 10 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Officially test compatibility with Windows Security Baselines

As a PI System administrator, I need to harden the OS of my servers consistent with industry best practices so that they are resilient to attack and random disruption. Official testing of compatibility with industry standards such as the Windows ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 0 No status

Running PI System within Docker

Run the PI Server within Docker (https://www.docker.com/) to get better economies of scale.  Might already be possible, but need advice supporting this architecture.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 5 Declined

Incremental backups are not possible because of frequent backfilling

Occasional back filling of data would cause 5 TB of archives to be backed up with incremental backups. This is frustrating because only a few KB of data is changed in each archive. Can OSIsoft provide a way to backup only the data that has changed...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 3 No status

User-defined functions

Allow arguments/parameters to be passed to variable definitions, effectively creating user-defined functions. For example, suppose that I want to define the function TagSum, which adds the values at all events in a time range. Then: TagSum(tag, s...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 4 No status

Custom Delivery Channels in PI Notifications (newer versions)

Originally posted on PI Square at https://pisquare.osisoft.com/ideas/3778-custom-delivery-channels-in-pi-notifications-newer-versions Customer would like to have the Custom Delivery Channels in PI Notifications 2012 upgraded to the newer versions...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 7 Declined

Totalizer that resets to 0 with Asset based Analytics

I need to calculate a running sum (totalizer) of a PI Point and reset it to 0 at the beginning of each month. I would like to do this with Asset based Analytics. There are workarounds to do this, but none are great. For example, one workaround inv...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 2 No status

Better search criteria in Management tab of PI System Explorer

PI System Explorer Management Tab should have better search criteria. For example, select specific elements in which to rerun an Analysis. Maybe use Element = something OR/AND Element = something else. Or search by element path.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 2 No status

PI Tag Renaming Detection for PI Vision/PE Calculations

When input PI Tags are referenced in PI Vision 2020+ calculations, they do not automatically detect PI Tag name changes. For users with a lot of calculations, this can be extremely problematic in the event of a PI Tag name change. In the event of ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 2 No status