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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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Undelete PI tags

Recovering a PI tag that was deleted accidently is extremly annoying. Why do I have to create a new tag and reprocess all historical archives to convert the old tag to the new tag in the archives? (https://techsupport.osisoft.com/Troubleshooting/K...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 4 No status

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

Include Windows Counters/OMF Health for Message Log Event Rate

Having metrics that count the number of messages being written to the message log, and categorized by severity, gives a great dashboard overview of the status of PI data archive. For example, having a events/min count of error messages historized ...
Mike Horrocks over 1 year 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

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

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

When archive corruption is noted, automatically force a shift to a new archive

As a PI system user and administrator, I am interested in minimizing data loss due to a corrupted Archive. Please include an automated fix when corruption is noted. The PI server could force a shift to a new archive and re-processes the corrupted ...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Prevent PI-TAGs to be overwritten with new data for certain time range

Normally our TAGs are filled with data coming from an analysis (or PI-Equation) by snapshot-data or recalculated data. But sometimes we have to do manual corrections due to data loss and have to write data to this PI-TAGs manually. And we are not ...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

PI Data Archive Installation Wizard should provide an option to restore from a backup or copy current configuration from another PI Server

As we enter 2020, the process of moving/restoring the PI Data Archive hasn't changed since its inception. Typical procedure to move a PI Data Archive on a new server is to install same version of software and then perform backup/restore of the old...
Kapil Rakh over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Association of Multiple Tags That Represent Same Measurement

As a PI admin, I would like to associate mutiple tags together that represent the same measurement at different time periods SO THAT users see one set of data together instead of the old data in the old tag and the new data in the new tag after DC...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 Declined