Ideas

When calculating the disk space requirements on a recent upgrade the drive was expected to have only 138 MB installed. But the install failed due to not enough disk space on the drive because the minimal backup needed a certain amount of disk spac...

PI AF Link is not included in PI 2018 but it would be good to be able to remove the link during an upgrade. (not possible today https://customers.osisoft.com/s/knowledgearticle?knowledgeArticleUrl=000027668). Same for PIBatch which cannot be unins...

As a PI System administrator, it would be helpful if the PI Server had an artificial intelligence or machine learning system which could recognize the normal updating patterns of a PI Point and report when a tag was not receiving updates properly ...

Provide a MUI Kit for the Data Archive / SMT

I would like to be able to request current Event Queue, Primary Event Queue, and Archive Events counters programmatically in order to perform my own throttling when backfilling from external systems. This becomes especially important if you also h...

For customers from special fields (eg: Pharma industry ), they would like the value to be accessed as exactly 16.168 , and would like to know if data type " Decimal " can be introduced for PI tags in PI Data Archive; Just like the following descri...

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 ...

Currently, there are two methods to 'shift' archives: 1. "Archive_AutoArchiveFileRoot" set to blank 2. "Archive_OverwriteDataOnAutoShiftFailure" enabled Neither method shifts to dynamic archives. We have three sites that merged PI servers, thus ha...

To bring back Archive activity grid which brings many insights for the administrators for archive health monitoring. My suggestion is to maybe enhance it and provide a UI base functionality, similar to PI AuditViewer.

The pidiag -xa utility doesn't support selecting a folder location and exporting the contents to a single XML/TXT file. This would be very helpful for bulk auditing actions.