Ideas

We would like to be able to extract the data reference type (PI Point, None, Formula, Table Lookup, etc.) for an attribute using PI Analysis, similar to the TagType function for PI points.

The TagNum function seems to be the only function that requires a double quote as opposed to single quotes. Many other TagXXX functions call for single quotes for its attribute or PI Point arguments.

Having more thorough and detailed messages for the Analysis service in the event logs, especially upon startup. Environment details + Language settings that the Analysis service is using should be mentioned in the startup logs in order to better ...

When using an analysis variable as the output timestamp, it appears that the actual output timestamp is floored to the nearest second, shaving off any millisecond count. This is not a huge priority on our end, but I wanted to ask in case it was a ...

Allow analysis outputting to Analysis Data Reference attributes to make use of the functions Exit() and NoOutput(), instead of requiring only PI Point Data Reference attributes.

Better handle data coming from shared or mobile equipment where the association of the data changes from one piece of equipment to another. Example: shared drilling equipment data associated with the wells they are drilling.

As an user, I want to be able to write data to the PI Data Archive via the Buffer Subsystem even when the PI Data Archive is unavailable at start up so that my application can continue to run without having to wait for a connection to the PI Data ...

As a user, I want to have improved interaction when configuring AF security using PI System Explorer, so that I can make changes to AF security more easily and accurately.

As an administrator I require a better mechanism to manager AF Library objects across multiple AF servers. I would suggest extending the current library functionality in AF to include the following: * library can be versioned * Objects created...

When the AF Server throws a network-related or instance-specific SQL error it only says that it failed to establish a connection to "SQL Server". It further says to check if the instance name is correct. However, it never says to what SQL server...