Ideas

It'd be nice to dynamically set the Event Frame category within Asset Analytics. Preferably have this as an option for each 'Start Trigger'. This would be advantageous since 'category' is on the top level object and thus much more efficient to q...

While it is possible to manually calculate Process Capability Statistics, such as Cpk and Ppk, using AF Asset Analytics, it would be much more convenient to have a built in function to calculate these values, specifically in relation to the SQC We...

When working with arrays in PI Analysis it would be nice to be able to compare a current value against the previous or next value. I have figured out that I can use PrevVal in the MapData function, however it appears that this goes back to data ar...

Currently you can only run a single PI Analytics instance at a time. We have two VMs running PI Analytics in a failover situation, but this means that one of the VMs is sitting idle 99% of the time. We are starting to hit the limits of scaling w...

Our process is writing an array of strings into an AF attribute of the same type. This AF attribute may receive information of different size (index) in time. We need to extract all the information contained in the string array (all the items) an...

Our corporation has highly available PI in a number of sites. Our PI infrastructure is highly available except for Analytics and Notifications. The requirement for a shared volume for the failover cluster is not supported. We can support the failo...

Can buffer subsystem be enhanced to manage value deletions from tags? We have a collective and utilize buffering to send data to both collective members however we have to jump through hoops to delete data from both collective members. It would be...

When backfilling tags from AF its very easy to update many archives. I would like the backup script to only require free space for archives that don't exist in the target folder. We have periodic incremental backup failures do to a lack of free di...

This replacement is appropriate for several reasons: PowerShell is easier to read and is a more powerful language than the batch language. Batch scripts are best used in Windows, whereas PowerShell is cross-platform. This replacement will support ...

Currently, the same file format is used for primary and non-primary historic archive files. This does not make much sense since the two types are used very differently. For the primary archive: Write operations should be fast since it is collectin...