Ideas

Currently, there are 2 windows to configure PI AF security, and it is a pain to switch between them: File → Database → Edit Security, which is used to assign permissions to identities File → Server Properties → Identities tab and Mappings tab, whi...

The available Youtube videos about configuring AF security are not clear. There should be a video about how to configure and grant the proper permissions to a service account running the PI Analysis Service for a PI System where the AF Server and ...

Use case: We want to give a user read access to a single element. All future elements created inherit the Database level Security, meaning the user will also have read access to all future created elements.

Implement a way to hide the contents of a PI point attribute, specifically the Instrumenttag attribute. With many PI interfaces, the InstrumentTag attribute will store the IP address of the source, and we (as well as many other utilities) have a r...

In many cases analytics should not be visible to everyone having right to view an AF-Database. Should be possible to direct whom should have view access to analytics. This is an extension to the obivious right to change analytics :)

PI System Administrators would benefit from a client or PI SMT extension that supports auditing and modifying user access. This includes mapping Active Directory roles to PI Identities, managing PI Database and Point access, managing AF Database a...

Maximum security by default would help encourage security best practices by: Making the best decision for customers that do not know or care about security "Rewarding" security-conscious customers with not having to expend effort to maximize secur...

Currently, it is a 5-step process to get authenticated. After the first authentication, it is only a 3-step process, but still clunky.

Currently when backfilling an analysis with the PI Buffer Subsystem turned on, all values are sent to the PI Data Archive uncompressed. This is because values are perceived as out of order and these settings are not observed. This should be mentio...

So there is absolutely nothing in the PSE user guide about how analysis templates are handled in derived templates. And while it appears that it is possible to override an analysis in the base template by creating one with the same name, there is ...