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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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Data Archive

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PI SMT's Current Values plug-in should have an option to not display comma separators for large numbers.

PI System Management Tools currently displays comma separators for large numbers. For example: 1,000,000. As a PI admin/user, it would be beneficial if there was an option to remove these commas.
Bethany Jewett 12 days ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Support different data retention policies

As an administrator, I need to ability to configure the life span of my PI data, so that data are kept or deleted accordingly. For example, data that should be deleted based on corporate mandates and data that should be kept forever are handled ac...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 4 No status

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 about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 3 No status

Provide the capability to apply compression on uncompressed data, aka recompress using offline archive utility.  See work item 6944OSI8.

Provide the capability to apply compression on uncompressed data, aka recompress using offline archive utility.  See work item 6944OSI8.
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 9 No status

Ensure data is identical between collective members

As a PI Administrator, I need to trust that the data is identical between my collective members. Currently, there is no way for me to be sure it is the same unless I do a side by side comparison. Data can be missing, or slightly off, and I have no...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 6 Tell us more

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 2 months ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 0 No status

Make a way to know the statistic of use of every PI TAG in Data Archive

When you have thousands of tags in your Data Archive, you need to know wich tags are beign used and witch don't. It would be very usefull to have some diagnostic that shows wich tags are being cosumed more and from wich client.
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 1 No status

Add new PIPointAttribute for "StaleTimeout"

While no customers have asked for this directly, I have seen many customers ask how to check a tag for being stale. The solution to date assumes all tags have the same staleness timeout, which really is not the case most of the time. This new "St...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 3 No status

Provide more granular configuration for default ACLs

As a PI Administrator of a PI System with complex security requirements, I need to set up different default permissions for various users so they can create tags that automatically have the proper security instead of having to rely on a process/pr...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 2 No status

Add point Type INT64, UINT64, to PI Archive

Some interfaces such as PI Modbus allow the polling of a 64-bit signed integer value or a 64-bit unsigned integer value. Yet the database does not allow you to store these values in their native formats. You must store them as a 64-bit floating po...
Guest about 2 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Data Archive 4 No status