Data Archive

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 ...

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...