Ideas

Many times I have been in SMT and looking at current values.  But some of the values are not correct, I have to copy the name of the PI tag, go to Point Builder, either search for the PI tag or start to type the PI tag in search and then popu...

PI System Health will be very helpful to us for monitoring our large PI Infrastructure of hundreds of nodes. Aside from the large number of nodes, some of these machines, mainly Interfaces, are not easy to access for any install or upgrade, so hav...

"As a business owner, I want to set up change control procedures where any change to the PI System, be it the data archive, asset framework, PI Interfaces, PI Connectors, or any other component is done through a change in source controlled configu...

Performance Equations syntax for filtering in SMT and Datalink should allow wildcards for strings: For instance, ''="*substring*" interprets the * as a literal character rather than as a wildcard. To achieve the desired filter, it is currently po...

PI System Management Tools is littered with legacy features. By grouping them together or clearly labeling them as "legacy" or similar, the user knows which features to use or migrate away from without having to look up each feature individually.

Currently, the Security column in the Database Security Table uses the following notation for its values (example): piadmin: A(r,w) | piadmins: A(r,w) | PI Readers: A(r) | PIWorld: A(r) This crams multiple PI Identities and access types into a si...

As a system administrator or as an upgrade implementation planner, I need to know the operating system environment that is hosting the software. mPI (Managed PI) collects information about the host OS version, whether physical or virtualized, and ...

Consider writing out each point type in full and putting the range of numbers that is supports beside the point type name, making sure the the names are aligned in their own "column" and that the ranges are aligned in their own "column". Examples...

I would like PSD to report on the SQL Server install. SQL Server is a core component of a PI system as it is required by AF, and used by PI Vision and PI Manual Logger. Similar to the OS information, I want to know where SQL Server is installed in...

Tuning parameters or PI setting that could be enabled to prevent duplicate data(tag, timestamp, value the same) from being inserted into PI.  Would be a global setting that could be applied at the archive level to prevent all interface types ...