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PI Interface for OPC DA and VT_ARRAY|VT_BSTR datatype

PI Interface for OPC DA has a plugin called "Time Array" to manage numerical arrays but string arrays are not supported. It would be a good improvement to develop this feature for string arrays.
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for OPC DA 0 No status

New start-up parameter /SYNC_TIME defining a floating-window during which the interface will keep a RDB table in sync with PI data archive

The new RDBMSPI param:  /SYNC_TIME=rel_start_time,rel_end_time   for instance /SYNC_TIME=*-6h,*+1h When set, the interface: - after each execution of a query, which shall have the same "floating" window in its WHERE clause; for insta...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for RDBMS 1 No status

DNP3: add functionality to allow outputs

DNP3 - add functionality to allow outputs for binary and possibly other object groups/variations.
Clint Ramsey over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for DNP3 0 Declined

Accept the dd-mmm-yyyy format in the absolute time syntax for history recovery start and end times

The PI Interface for RDBMS currently accepts the format dd-mmm-yy but not the format dd-mmm-yyyy for history recovery start and end times. The former format lacks the century, so the year is ambiguous. The latter format solves this problem and so...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for RDBMS 0 No status

More external resources for high latency networks with PItoPI, specifically with satellite networks

I have been working with a customer who works with oil rigs and satellite networks and they requested that more external resources be available for how to efficiently operate PItoPI in a high latency environment. Currently there is only one intern...
Nico Cha over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Help / Documentation / Videos 0 Declined

History recovery from multiple tags with one output tag

I have a scan-based output point writing multiple PI values to the relational database as described here: https://livelibrary.osisoft.com/LiveLibrary/content/en/int-rdbms-v4/GUID-1A194D2B-388B-4FD7-8B82-D85EDDBBC572 I would like to perform histo...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for RDBMS 0 No status

Embed more videos inside of help topics

Add the YouTube help videos that exist on the OSIsoft Learning channel to the "Help" section of ICU. For example, the UFL designer YouTube videos would appear alongside the corresponding documentation that should be accessible from ICU > Help &...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Help / Documentation / Videos 0 Declined

Improved handling of PIBUFSS initialization

We have encountered a situation where we were unable to write out-of-order data to PI through the buffer subsystem from an interface, apparently because the buffer subsystem was not yet fully initialized when the interface connected to it. Please ...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for RDBMS 0 No status

DNP3 Interface specify Class for scans

Create some way to configure PI Points belonging to a DNP3 interface instance such that the interface only requests data for a single class (Class 1/Class 2/Class 3) and not all three? Essentially, an event scan that will request one specified Cla...
Guest over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / PI Interface for DNP3 0 Declined

Restructure the Data Collection List

I have a few suggestions for the Data Collection List (https://techsupport.osisoft.com/Products/PI-Interfaces-and-PI-Connectors): In the Platform column, there is currently the out-of-place entry "X64" that is used to signify 64-bit Windows. Pleas...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in PI Interfaces / Help / Documentation / Videos 0 No status