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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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AVEVA™ PI Server

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Remove PI System Explorer (Legacy 32-bit) from PI AF Client

When PI AF Client is installed, it includes a program called "PI System Explorer (Legacy 32-bit)". Please remove this from PI AF Client. The continued support of 32-bit PI AF SDK makes sense, since 3rd-party programs may still depend on the 32-bit...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 2 No status

The PI Server Installation kit should list the PI software requirements sooner in the install

As a PI System Administrator, I would like the PI Server Installation kit to list out any PI Software that will be included with a selected role or feature before the Summary step so that I can determine what will be installed without having to fi...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 0 No status

Pi Point removal tied to AF Element Delete

Originally posted on PI Square at https://pisquare.osisoft.com/ideas/5268-pi-point-removal-tied-to-af-element-delete We need the ability to remove PI Points when deleting AF Elements in a single command execution like Builder does PI Point creati...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / General 1 No status

Buffer subsystem to handle deleted values

Can buffer subsystem be enhanced to manage value deletions from tags? We have a collective and utilize buffering to send data to both collective members however we have to jump through hoops to delete data from both collective members. It would be...
ehoffman over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

smarter calculation of PI Backup required free space

When backfilling tags from AF its very easy to update many archives. I would like the backup script to only require free space for archives that don't exist in the target folder. We have periodic incremental backup failures do to a lack of free di...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 3 No status

Replace the batch (.bat) scripts in the %PISERVER% folder with PowerShell (.ps1) scripts

This replacement is appropriate for several reasons: PowerShell is easier to read and is a more powerful language than the batch language. Batch scripts are best used in Windows, whereas PowerShell is cross-platform. This replacement will support ...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Optimize and compress non-primary historic archive files

Currently, the same file format is used for primary and non-primary historic archive files. This does not make much sense since the two types are used very differently. For the primary archive: Write operations should be fast since it is collectin...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 4 No status

Mapping of event frame analysis variables to element attributes

It should be possible to map variables in event frame analysis to element attributes.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 7 No status

scheduled recalculation

For our technical account we have to do recalulations on a daily basis, because of late arriving data. Auto-recalculation is not an option, because late arriving data that arrives after we have published the results, should not(!) be respected any...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Limit the load of the PIRecalculationprocessor when backfilling

We had a few issues with key-users creating inefficient AF Analysis and starting a backfill over a longer time period. This resulted in a CPU load of 100% (caused by the PIRecalculationprocessor). The whole PI System got not responsive incl. PI Sy...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 3 No status