Data Archive

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 ...

When you open the Services program (services.msc), none of the PI Data Archive services have a description. Please provide descriptions for these. The specific services are: PI Archive Subsystem PI Backup Subsystem PI Base Subsystem PI Buffer Subs...

During the Batch to Event Frames Migration, all migrated Event Frames are created with 'Migrated' templates (i.e. PIBatchMigrated, PIUnitBatchMigrated, etc.). I would like the ability to pick and choose what templates migrated Event Frames are cre...

Given that the archive file format is proprietary, this suggestion is me shooting in the dark. Disk compression compresses archive files very well, and my guess is that most of this compression occurs on the digital tags, since the number of poss...

When the Step attribute of a PI Point is "on", PI assumes that a value is constant until the next event, which works well in most cases. For PI Points that track rolling averages, rolling totals, real-time derivatives of totalizer tags with respe...

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 ...

Problem: iIf PI Interface disconnected from PI Server, PI Point will show flat data until connection up not No data or Disconnected Propose Solution: Pl Server have ability to change flat data to no data if PI interface disconnected from PI Serve...

Supporting Windows 10 in production is a frequent request for us even if we have to limit the tag count to 5K as an example. There are lots of applications that can benefit fro a small historian. Supporting Windows 10 for testing purposes only is ...

MDB to AF synchronisation is not needed anymore and new installation of data archive are free to not install it. Existing installations must maintain this link in order to allow PI-ACE to function properly and add new context. PI-ACE cannot be rep...