Ideas

When creating a trust for the Buffer Subsystem with the Add Data Server Wizard in Buffering Manager, the Wizard auto-populates the IP Address of the machine. Include an option to edit the IP Address that is auto-populated for machines that have mu...

In PI System Explorer → File → Database → Edit Security, the "Permissions for" box always lists all permissions that can possibly be set within PI AF, regardless of the selected objects. Instead, only permissions that apply to the selected objects...

The idea would be to provide a feature which alllows a PI System Admin to get a report of all the rights that are granted to a user or a group of user for all the PI system product which have a link with security

As an ICS systems engineer, I need to understand and easily configure Authentication and Authorization settings to secure the PI System from the point of data collection to data access and remote display viewing.

I want to give access to only some attributes on some elements to some users. Currently, the smallest granularity in AF Security is at the element, not attribute level. Sure there are some workarounds like creating derived templates, but it would ...

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...