Ideas

We are running a central DCM Server in our site to maintain the dataflow between different UA Connectors and different DataArchive/AF pairs. We use this DCM to restart Connectors and to browse and select new Tags on a OPC UA Server. As central Ad...

I have three large customers who have experienced PI Data Archive performance issues when large numbers of tags are being created. Specifically, record locks seem to take an extra large time (e.g., more than 15 minutes) to clear, and data updates ...

Powershell is a convenient way to administer a PI Server. One limitation, however, is that there is no built-in functionality for administering pibufss with powershell. Please add PI Buffer Subsystem (pibufss) management to Powershell tools for th...

Having the PI Relay for OPC UA Connector running on a different machine than the actual connector is a good Idea, as we are now able to provide Windows credentials for AF Access without Credential manager. On our Site we are running several small...

It would be nice if we could reference an attribute or analysis variable to provide the value for the "True for 'x' minutes" parameter, rather than having to hard-code this value. This would be especially helpful in cases where we have numerous el...

You should be able to urge EFs using more complex search criterias' than the ones provide in the latest PI Server 2018 SP3 (StartTime, EndTIme, EF Template). Most important criteria would be EF categories, but also some honorable mentions: 1. EF ...

Currently the visibility of Event Frames in PI Vision and elsewhere is only limited by the security of those Event Frames. As the security of Event Frames created by Analyses is dependent on the security settings of the Event Frame template (and t...

I would like to see an option on an event frame generation analysis, probably under advanced event frame settings, that enables automatic event frame name reevaluation at the end time of the generated event frame. Right now I have event frame gene...

The description for the MarkArchiveGaps tuning parameter for a value of 2 is unclear. A user might interpret: 2 - Gap markers only when there is an actual gap between two consecutive archives. to mean that markers are shown when a tag does not h...