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When troubleshooting intermittent issues, using AFGetTrace may be problematic as the trace can consume quite a bit of disk space, and setting a maximum file size will cause the trace to stop once the file is full. Without knowledge of when the iss...

The "Recommended Disk Configuration for the PI Data Archive" article indicates that it is best to keep all non-OS software off the System disk. A few of the newer installations do not allow you to define the location. e.g. Connect to PI Adapter &a...

Some of the newer or rebranded PI products use the AVEVA "A" as the icon. AVEVA has many other applications than PI. We use some of them. It's confusing to see PI specific utilities using the generic. The icon is supposed to be a quicker way to id...

Right now there is a PerfMon counter for Buffer Health.  It's either 0, 1, or 2.  That's not helpful because it doesn't tell you what is wrong.  There are other PerfMon counters for Remaining Queue capacity and Points with Post Erro...

Improve AF Transformer logging: In some cases it's hard to investigate why AF Transformer doesn't include certain elements in transformation. it would be helpful to have a debug level that enables following features: - log element names that were ...

Below in the examples are the parameters that would change from site to site.  Other than these parameters the transformation XML script is identical across sites.  With parameters, it would be simpler to maintain these files. • Host, D...

Allow specifying conditions (or case constructions) for ParentID/ElementID functionality. Example: if [1].Value=x then ParentID=[2].value ElementID=[3].Name    else if [1].Value=y then ParentID=[4].value ElementID=[3].Name   ...

Microsoft Power Apps enable low-code development of connectors to integrate data sources and applications. Rather than customers developing and maintaining their own connectors, it is requested that OSIsoft develop, maintain, and update a connecto...

To use the PI Server with the Microsft PowerPlatform, a custom connector is required. This connector is always under the responsibility of the customer, which makes it difficult to keep up with adjustments to the PI system and Microsoft, or to rea...

PostProcessing stage of the transformation (if using ParantID and ElementID) should use paging (or another approach) for a better performance, it should also be better logged and display number of objects processed, a number of objects in the list...