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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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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 3 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 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Backup directly to AWS S3 bucket

We've successfully migrated our entire PI System into the AWS environment. Therefore it would be very nice if the pibackup.bat script would be able to directly backup to an S3 bucket.
ArieVanBoven over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Publish metrics

Create standing metrics for the PI System, especially the PI Data Archive
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

add-on for dataquality

Data scientists are 70% of their time busy with cleaning data. In the pi system, we can se lo and hi limits, but dataquality is more than that. It's also about consistent and continuous datarate, strange sensor signals,...Within Pi, this is still ...
Guest almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

How to fix errors that prevent users from creating new PI Points, other than restarting the services.

Occasionally an error that prevent users from creating new PI Points occurs. In this case, I would like you to prepare other error resolution methods, because restarting the services will make the PI system temporarily unavailable.
Guest over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Create "aliases" of a pipoint using attributes

the idea is to have the possibility to assign a single tag more than one name, providing it a list of aliases in case of need. many tags in pi have names that were fine at the time they were created but after some years their name should be "chang...
ValterFostini over 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Make a point class similar to "base", but without zero, span, or typical value

Most of the time, zero, span, and typical value are unused, cause confusion, and/or lead to easy but costly mistakes. Typical value is probably the most useless PI Point attribute. It doesn't affect the PI system. It is just there for the user's ...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Bring "old" data archive into ultra fast and seamless database system

Please do away with archaic pi archive file system with non-seamless begin/end dates to sql that runs on a ultra-powerhouse database server capturing always available, never-ending data.
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status