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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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PI Server is taking a lot of resources to interpolate a value before the first archived value

In a rescent issue we faced, we discoreved that when you try to interpolated a value before the first archived value on a system with a lot of archive files, the system must read all the archive files trying to find a previous value for interpolat...
marc.cote 5 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Correct pointDB_RemoveEmptySource behaviour or change Point Source Management

Hello, About the tuning parameter pointDB_RemoveEmptySource the following Article : https://customers.osisoft.com/s/knowledgearticle?knowledgeArticleUrl=KB01008 Indicates : Perform any of the following actions to trigger removal of empty point sou...
Lionel Gergaud almost 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 2 No status

As a PI Administrator, we should be able to see which PI mapping was used for a Windows AD user in PI message logs.

Through PI message logs I want to see which PI mapping was used for a Windows AD user, currently only the PI identity associated the windows AD is visible in the Logs. PI mapping information will give us more idea/facts about the particular Window...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Allow bi-temporal data archiving

PI DA Server should allow for more flexibility in terms of the format of archived data. A big advantage would be if PI could archive two timestamps per event. One timestamp will come from whatever the data source is (PI Interfaces, fiels devices, ...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 2 Declined

Thresholds for PI Points

It would be nice to have threshold attributes for pi points. Then we could configure that values received from the source outside this limits would be ignored (not stored), substituted by the respective threshold value or even by an "Over\Under Ra...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 2 Declined

Method to backup and restore PI Points only

The PI backup tools currently do not have a method to backup only the files related to PI Points. The purpose of this would be to refresh the point table on a QA system from a production system. The current PI backup method is all or nothing.
GaryYegiazaryan over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Negative numbers in digitalsets

Negative numbers in digitalsets for all PI interface and skip numbers, basically that the digitalset is like the enum of AF
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

PI Server should recover from any ungraceful shutdown

While the recovery mechanism for queue corruption is much more robust on newer version of PI Data Archive compared to previous versions, there are still few cases where PI Data Archive does not fully recover from ungraceful shutdowns. PI Server sh...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined

Ability to Identify Critical (e.g. GxP) PI Tag in SMT

A checkbox or some mechanism to identify Critical data point (e.g GxP) in SMT. * can be used for search filter to separate critical vs. non-critical data (gxp vs non-gxp) * possible additional layer of confirmation/prompt prior deletion (?)  ...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Built-in feature to automatically move archive files past a certain age to a different directory

Automatically move archives from a disk to another based on their age. Use case: I only want to keep the last 2y of data on a SSD and the remaining will be stored on a regular disk. My use case can be achieve using the example PowerShell script l...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status