1998 PI System Users’ Conference PI 3.2 New Features Enhancements Product Support Plans for the next release

1998 PI System Users’ Conference New Features PI-ODBC Support Totalizer System Management Tools Migration Tools  PI 2.x to PI 3.x  Other PI 3.x Systems

1998 PI System Users’ Conference Enhancements PI-Batch  Alias table support  Improvements in Search Performance

1998 PI System Users’ Conference Enhancements Snapshot Subsystem  “-f” flag for repair of timestamps

1998 PI System Users’ Conference Enhancements Archive Subsystem  Event queue file recovery data from queue file to off-line archive  Archive shift improvements archive initialization optimized order-of-magnitude increase in performance

1998 PI System Users’ Conference Enhancements Archive Subsystem  “time fix” feature  Adjusts for Microsoft time bug in Run- Time Library affects only systems in time zones that do NOT observe Daylight Savings time

1998 PI System Users’ Conference Utilities PIConfig sets length of input lines ? Shows specification in effect

1998 PI System Users’ Conference PIConfig New Tables  PISubSys information on running subsystems  PISubsysStats communication statistics  PINetMgrStats connection statistics

1998 PI System Users’ Conference Utilities Pidiag  -ar, -ara repair registered archive list  -udf locate piadmin reset password

1998 PI System Users’ Conference Utilities piartool  archive shift prediction  name of next archive

1998 PI System Users’ Conference Tools to access Remote Servers “-remote” command qualifier  piconfig also command  piartool  pilistupd  pigetmsg

1998 PI System Users’ Conference Installation and Upgrade Directory structure  All directories under “\pi”  PI-PE Scheduler under “\pi\bin” Windows NT  “table” file repair  Debug symbols  Run-Time Library bug check

1998 PI System Users’ Conference Support Microsoft NetMeeting Web site  PI 3.2 Data Archive Manual on-line  “Internet Resources Network” Problem Reports future: knowledge base Internet Newsgroup

1998 PI System Users’ Conference Future Releases PI 3.2: Service Releases  Alarm Subsystem  Base Subsystem memory usage improvements  Read-only archives

1998 PI System Users’ Conference Future Releases PI 3.2: Service Releases  Windows NT Performance Monitor interface –both generate and track counters Setup –Uninstall –“Silent” install

1998 PI System Users’ Conference PI 3.3 Third-Party Historian access Changing point class Changing point type SQL  Access to PI 3.x features  INSERT, UPDATE keywords  ORDER BY, GROUP BY

1998 PI System Users’ Conference PI 3.3 License Subsystem Integration with NT Security Microsoft Management Console  create “snap-in”

1998 PI System Users’ Conference Performance Equations No design change Several bug fixes and improved documentation  Type check fixes enable nested functions.  Curve function.  More operations allowed on times and digital states.

1998 PI System Users’ Conference PE Directions Functions for Alarm States Fully event-scheduled processing User functions in DLL’s Group scheduling programs with multiple outputs

1998 PI System Users’ Conference Totalizer Introduction What totalization is About the new totalizer Functions and Features Examples

1998 PI System Users’ Conference 28 Scan Points Exception reportsArchive compression

1998 PI System Users’ Conference Exception Reporting

1998 PI System Users’ Conference 18 Exceptional Values 11 exception reports 6 have two data points

1998 PI System Users’ Conference Compression Testing

1998 PI System Users’ Conference 6 “Compressed Data” Points Compressed, but not squished.. these are points selected from the actual scan data

1998 PI System Users’ Conference Why Totalizer Totalizer processes every exception point 1 to 2.5 percent

1998 PI System Users’ Conference Totalizer Structure

1998 PI System Users’ Conference PI3 Totalizer Event Driven New Point Class  Pneumonic parameters replace numeric codes New Functions

1998 PI System Users’ Conference Functions - numeric source point Total-average Min-max Range - Standard Deviation Median Options  time or event weighted

1998 PI System Users’ Conference Functions - numeric source point Total-average Min-max Range - Standard Deviation Median Options  time or event weighted

1998 PI System Users’ Conference Functions - Digital and string Event Count  All or change only Event values compared  EQ, NE, GT, LT, …  Count all or change  Time true Numeric source points also

1998 PI System Users’ Conference Report Mode Period End Running Running Estimate Ramping

1998 PI System Users’ Conference Totalization Period Clock Event Event True Event Moving Time Moving

1998 PI System Users’ Conference Development Basic total and count functions work Current accumulation is lost across restart  Service Release 1 User feedback appreciated

1998 PI System Users’ Conference Questions? Thank you for your interest