Data Archive

Could the feature of counting the number of pi tags (by prefix) and display it in PI Tag or PI Vision. In Microsoft Excel's PI Builder, I would query for pi tags starting with "dist*" and get a count.

The piartool -backup command has multiple parameters that allow for specifying a number of archives to copy. For example it is possible to specify a number of archives to backup starting at the current time (-numarch), or each archive number can b...

For customers from special fields (eg: Pharma industry ), they would like the value to be accessed as exactly 16.168 , and would like to know if data type " Decimal " can be introduced for PI tags in PI Data Archive; Just like the following descri...

Occasionally an error that prevent users from creating new PI Points occurs. In this case, I would like you to prepare other error resolution methods, because restarting the services will make the PI system temporarily unavailable.

the idea is to have the possibility to assign a single tag more than one name, providing it a list of aliases in case of need. many tags in pi have names that were fine at the time they were created but after some years their name should be "chang...

Hi, this idea is to allow an automated command in the collective manager in order to perform in a single command downgrade the current primary server to just "secondary" role without rebuilding "all" the DA server, and at the same time to promote ...

The disadvantage of fixed archives is that they cannot grow or shrink. The disadvantage of dynamic archives is that they can potentially grow too much. Merging of small archives and splitting of large archives must be done manually. To solve this...

As a production supervisor, I would like to be able to convert historical data tags to future data tags so that I can more efficiently transition my production target tags from being something that I have to update every day, to something that I c...

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 ...