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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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Provide a tool (in PSE?) to assist management of analytics scheduling offsets

We recommend customers use offsets to distribute scheduled calculations across time but there is not a good way manage this.Propose some utility to list a group of all scheduled analyses by same period, users supply X number of offsets and then th...
Brian Deslatte 2 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Include filtering logic in asset analytics

In Asset Analytics, there isn't a way to include a filtering function in a single analytic. For example, you may be calculating run hours on a motor, but there is no way to filter the calculation so that it is only done when the motor is running.
Laurie Dieffenbach 2 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Provide visual indication of attributes that are used as calculation inputs or outputs

it would be useful if there were a way to easily identify which attributes represent inputs to an analytic versus those which represent outputs.
Laurie Dieffenbach 2 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 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