Data Archive

Archive Editor in PI System Management Tools should support writing NULL values (ie, empty strings). This is currently supported by other PI Clients. For example, it is possible to write empty strings using PI System Explorer as well as using a PI...

For PI System Administrators, it would be nice to be able to easily get a list of all buffered or unbuffered points on the PI Data Archive. Currently, a list of buffered points is possible to retrieve using 'piartool -bfs -ptlist', but a comprehe...

Want to be able to allow some users the ability to create and modify tags, but to avoid the issues with deleted tags being hard to recover or accidents, remove their ability to delete tags. Currently, PI Tag Security has only two options: Read/Wri...

Occasional back filling of data would cause 5 TB of archives to be backed up with incremental backups. This is frustrating because only a few KB of data is changed in each archive. Can OSIsoft provide a way to backup only the data that has changed...

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.

As a user of the PI Data Archive, I would like the ability to give users access to create tags but not to be able to delete tags. This way they will not be able to accidentally delete tags but they still have the ability to create tags.

As a user, I would like PI Data Archive to provide 2 factor authentication.

If digital tags are found to be assigned to inappropriate digital state sets, changing the state set does not change historical data since the state set is also held in each archive record header. To correct the historical data, you have to offlin...

With everyone having virtual servers these days the host VM and SAN storage are on separate devices. When the storage device is unavailable or disconnected even briefly, the PI Archive process errors and gets DISABLED and can ONLY be restarted by ...

As a customer who is moving their PI Data Archive historic data to a Centralized IT Facility, hosting another PI Data Archive, and that would like to import tags and historic data from another PI Data Archive, it would be great to have a functiona...