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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    Extract events from buffer queue files or offline archives

    Currently, the procedure to recover buffer queue files consists of parsing the queue file into a temporary archive and then merging this archive with the registered archive files that overlap with the impacted period. This final merge requires to ...
    pspeybro over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 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 6 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

    smarter calculation of PI Backup required free space

    When backfilling tags from AF its very easy to update many archives. I would like the backup script to only require free space for archives that don't exist in the target folder. We have periodic incremental backup failures do to a lack of free di...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 3 No status

    Improve PI Server Installation kit: disk space requirements should include the minimal PI Backup

    When calculating the disk space requirements on a recent upgrade the drive was expected to have only 138 MB installed. But the install failed due to not enough disk space on the drive because the minimal backup needed a certain amount of disk spac...
    Nathan Skitt over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

    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

    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

    Option to turn off interpolation for a PI Point

    Currently, PI will always interpolate to determine a value for a PI Point between archived events. The Step attribute determines the interpolation method. "On" means "step interpolation" and "off" means "linear interpolation". This works well for ...
    Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 3 Declined