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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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Event Frames that can expire/auto-delete/archive

When generating Event Frames it would be useful to automatically remove the Event Frame, either when no longer active or in combination with no longer active and acknowledged, or other conditions. An example use case would be for PI Notifications...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Event Frames (EF) 0 No status

Guidance on best practices

As an ICS systems engineer, I need to provide broad, real-time access to operations data using the PI System while assuring that sensitive systems are defended appropriately via standard security zones and authorization mechanisms. So I need guida...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Security 0 Completed

PI Data Archive: Improve piarchss performance

PI Archive Subsystem should be able to use operating memory more efficiently. For example by loading as many non-primary archives into its process memory as possible (perhaps it could be affected by a user setting).
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 2 Declined

Add a Confirmed Write methods

All methods exposed through AF SDK and other Developer Technologies are "fire and forget". Please add methods, at least for time series data, which return when the data has been processed. A write operation that returns when data has been process...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 Declined

Separate priority setting for Data Read and Data Write

Data Read and Date Write (Buffering) from/to PI Data Archive is based on the priority settings in PI SDK and PSE. We have a architecture of 6 member PI collective and all the source data is not buffered to the individual collective. Hence for othe...
vasanth51 over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 2 No status

Include usernames in pidiag -xa export of PI Archive audit trail

As a PI Administrator in a regulated environment, it would be helpful if the Archive audit trail data exported by the pidiag -xa command included the username associated with each action. Currently, the pidiag -xa exports of archive audit logs do ...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Preview Results should display values of variables in event frame generation analysis

If I want to create an analysis that generates an event frame in PI System Explorer, often times it's useful to check the values of variables to make sure that a calculation is being done as expected to mitigate error on my end, and make sure I am...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Analytics & Calculations 0 No status

Provide Alarm management function

I would like to monitor and manage alerts & events gathered from PI Interface for OPC AE to create a report like Top 10 alarms, Floating Alarm, Operator Alarm, because by default PI System will collect AE as a string and stored it. Should we h...
Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 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

Selectively install 32-bit versus 64-bit versions of PI programs

Currently, install kits such as those of PI DataLink, PI AF Client, PI API, PI SDK, PI OLEDB Provider, PI OLEDB Enterprise, and PI SQL Client always install both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Most of the time, one of these versions is unused and...
Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Installation 3 No status