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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Store PI Data Archive information in an SQL Server database

Most of the PI Data Archive information that is accessible from PI System Management tools is perfect for a relational database: PI Identities, PI Mappings, PI Point attributes, PI Message Logs, etc. Moving all of this to an SQL Server database w...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

Increasing the dynamic range of compressed data

I see too often customers struggling to find the right exception and compression settings. When exception/compression are not well defined, they end up having too many values or missing values, what causes a lot of problems when the affected tag i...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Link tuning parameters to the UOM database

Many of the tuning parameters have units, but the unit can only be found in the tuning parameter's description and is not written consistently (sometimes written in full, sometimes abbreviated, sometimes written as a symbol). Linking the tuning pa...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Being able to activate the Log of abnormally long request made to the PI Data Archive

It would be helpful to determine which users or applications made heavy requests to the Data Archive Server. This could be an option to be activated or not. Logging the ip, user identity, concerned tags, duration of the request Those information a...
jerome.boudon over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

New attribute for a PI point type ID

To take full advantage of AF and substitution parameters it would be great to have a sort of type ID. Now i have to rename all tags to gain this possibility. It would be easy if i could use a portion of the tag name and a  type id. Then i cou...
Hobbe over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 3 Tell us more

Store multiple events at the same timestamp

I have a particular application for storing partial discharge events into the PI Server.  Many of the events are at the same timestamp, which result in multiple events at the same time.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

Auto Archive Management - Shift vs. Delete

Currently, there are two methods to 'shift' archives: 1. "Archive_AutoArchiveFileRoot" set to blank 2. "Archive_OverwriteDataOnAutoShiftFailure" enabled Neither method shifts to dynamic archives. We have three sites that merged PI servers, thus ha...
Pete Long over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Preserve variable-attribute mapping upon attribute path change

Currently, if a variable is mapped to an attribute and the attribute's AF path changes, the variable must be remapped to the attribute. Instead of relying on the attribute's full path to identify the attribute, each attribute should be identified...
Kenneth Barber over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 5 Declined

EnableAutoBackFilling for specified AF analyses

Is it possible to enable or disable the parameter EnableAutoBackFilling for different group of Analysis in different database.   The idea is to not have same  parameter EnableAutoBackFilling for all Analysis of all databases on the same ...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 2 No status

AF function PrevEvent() should return timestamp of previous event even if data is "No Data"

Normally AF function PrevEvent() returns the timestamp of the previous event for a specified timestamp. But if the previous event is system digital state "No Data" it does not return the timestamp but again system digital state "No Data". That is...
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 3 Declined