PI API Overview

The PI Application Programming Interface (PI API) is part of the PI SDK installation kit. The PI API is intended to provide a common programmatic interface to PI information from the Point Database, the Archive, and PI Tables, as well as providing utilities for interface and user-application development. PI API provides a common programmer interface to PI Data Archive information, designed to span multiple hardware and software environments. The PI API is supported on existing OpenVMS-based PI home and PINet nodes, UNIX, Linux, and Microsoft Windows.