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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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Scheduled archive shifts

As a PI Administrator I want the archive shifts to happen on a schedule so that the time duration of the archives is predictable and makes archive management between collective members easier. This feature will eliminate the uncertainty around arc...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Completed

Reprocess fixed archives to dynamic or visa versa

Currently, PI SMT will only allow archives to be reprocessed according to it's original type. User would like to be able to choose whether to reprocess the archives from fixed to dynamic or vice versa.
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

Add Access Right that Allow Users to Create Tags But Not Delete Tags

As a user of the PI Data Archive, I would like the ability to give users access to create tags but not to be able to delete tags. This way they will not be able to accidentally delete tags but they still have the ability to create tags.
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 5 No status

Apply correct localhost.tz file during PI Data Archive installation

To account for the different historical implementations of Daylight Saving Time in different regions, a localhost.tz file is added to the %piserver%\dat directory after installation. As an installer of PI Data Archive, I would like the localhost.t...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

PI Archive ability to recover from drive disconnect

With everyone having virtual servers these days the host VM and SAN storage are on separate devices. When the storage device is unavailable or disconnected even briefly, the PI Archive process errors and gets DISABLED and can ONLY be restarted by ...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 2 No status

2 factor authentication

As a user, I would like PI Data Archive to provide 2 factor authentication.
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Option to ignore the digital state set ID in historical archive record headers and just use the one in the latest or in the point database.

If digital tags are found to be assigned to inappropriate digital state sets, changing the state set does not change historical data since the state set is also held in each archive record header. To correct the historical data, you have to offlin...
AlistairTCO over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

PI Data Archive - import tags and merge historic archives together

As a customer who is moving their PI Data Archive historic data to a Centralized IT Facility, hosting another PI Data Archive, and that would like to import tags and historic data from another PI Data Archive, it would be great to have a functiona...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

PI Data Archive: Improve piarchss performance

PI Archive Subsystem should be able to use operating memory more efficiently. For example by loading as many non-primary archives into its process memory as possible (perhaps it could be affected by a user setting).
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 2 Declined

Powershell PIArchive.Reprocess

A powershell method for reprocessing PI Archve Files. $myPIArchive = Get-PIArchiveFileInfo -Connection $myPi -Name "someArchiveFile" $myPIArchive.ReprocessArchive -NewFileName $false|"filename" -Type Dynamic|Fixed -OtherCoolOptions Reading data...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Completed