Reduce archive file size by eliminating unused record numbers
Background:
On a Data Archive where many points have been deleted, there will be many unused record numbers. Since the size of an archive file is tied to the highest existing record number (for performance reasons), this can result in archive file...
Allow the creation of tag name aliases. This would allow us to present more user friendly option for tag name searches. It would also help present a standardized tag name to users for tags from sources that don't follow our standard tag naming c...
Ability to Identify Critical (e.g. GxP) PI Tag in SMT
A checkbox or some mechanism to identify Critical data point (e.g GxP) in SMT.
* can be used for search filter to separate critical vs. non-critical data (gxp vs non-gxp)
* possible additional layer of confirmation/prompt prior deletion (?)
Curr...
Built-in feature to automatically move archive files past a certain age to a different directory
Automatically move archives from a disk to another based on their age. Use case: I only want to keep the last 2y of data on a SSD and the remaining will be stored on a regular disk.
My use case can be achieve using the example PowerShell script l...
When archive corruption is noted, automatically force a shift to a new archive
As a PI system user and administrator, I am interested in minimizing data loss due to a corrupted Archive. Please include an automated fix when corruption is noted. The PI server could force a shift to a new archive and re-processes the corrupted ...
In the DA collective there is a function called "Failback". The function is described as:
<< When the collective member which the client application was connected to becomes unavailable, the client connection starts monitoring when the memb...
Ability for admins to restrict PI Data query to 2 years at a time.
I would like to restrict PI Vision users from pulling data for more than 2 years at a stretch. This setting should also restrict the PI Data link as well. This will make the software more robust to query timeout. Just let users know they need to a...
Ronald Main
8 months ago
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It would be interesting to have a GUI, maybe inside PI SMT, that would allow users to configure their PIBackups directly without having to mess around in 2-3 batch files.
Checkboxes for the most common options, Active/inactive box etc. You cou...
Prevent PI-TAGs to be overwritten with new data for certain time range
Normally our TAGs are filled with data coming from an analysis (or PI-Equation) by snapshot-data or recalculated data. But sometimes we have to do manual corrections due to data loss and have to write data to this PI-TAGs manually. And we are not ...
Automated re-compression/average after a period of time
As a PI Administrator, currently there is no way to compress or average (then delete) your data automatically after an event reaches a certain age. It would be nice to have the ability to automatically compress or average specific tags after the e...