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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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Delay Real-Time Calculations until backfill is finished.

For recursive Analyses such as below : PrevVal(tagA,'*') + 'TagB' → output : tagA When the PI Analysis Service is down (or the node needs to be restarted), the current calculation needs to be halted until the Backfilling reaches up to the start u...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 3 No status

A way to specify within analyses whether input values should be retrieved from the Data Archive or the PIAF Cache

A way to specify within the analyses if input values should be retrieved from the Data Archive or the PIAF Cache. Thereby preventing different results during real-time calculation and for instance backfills and decreasing the execution time of ana...
David Scott over 1 year ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 1 No status

Analysis - Default Backfill configuration for service startup

When a failover occur or at service startup, ALL analysis configured for backfilling executes based on the last configured backfill/recalculate timerange. There is an urgent need for a DEFAULT per-analysis configuration in case of service startu...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 1 Tell us more

Individual Collective Members Health (data matches with other nodes)

Originally posted on PI Square at https://pisquare.osisoft.com/ideas/29295-individual-collective-members-health-data-matches-with-other-nodes We would like a way to know if a node in a collective is not receiving the same data as the other nodes....
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / System Management 0 No status

Analysis - Remove backfilling

When a failover occur or at service startup, ALL analysis configured for backfilling executes based on the last configured backfill/recalculate timerange. There is actually no feature to manually remove a configured backfill on a specific analysis.
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 3 No status

Incremental backups are not possible because of frequent backfilling

Occasional back filling of data would cause 5 TB of archives to be backed up with incremental backups. This is frustrating because only a few KB of data is changed in each archive. Can OSIsoft provide a way to backup only the data that has changed...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 3 No status

Analytics Service Utilization

The current 'Analysis Service Statistics' explain quantitatively "what is happening", but do not quantify the available capacity of the analytics engine. Managing a large and busy AF Server involves far too much guesswork as to how much additional...
Steven.Taylor over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Totalizer that resets to 0 with Asset based Analytics

I need to calculate a running sum (totalizer) of a PI Point and reset it to 0 at the beginning of each month. I would like to do this with Asset based Analytics. There are workarounds to do this, but none are great. For example, one workaround inv...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 2 No status

As an administrator, I would like to be able to backfill data that crosses over a versioning event

Use case: 1. An element has an attribute that looks up information on equipment configuration (ex: a pump rate) 2.  Due to an equipment change, the lookup table and the element were increased in version 3. A backfill needed to be performed o...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 1 No status

Event Frame Re-capture/Backfill Option to Save Annotations/Reasons

When a backfill or "recapture events" option is selected for Event Frames, give the user an option to "Save Annotations" for that specific event frame. Right now, we use Event Frames to copy in Reason Codes and Comments (that are logged as annotat...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Event Frames (EF) 1 No status