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Some organizations do not provide admin accounts with write permission to the root C:\ directory. The install kits of most PI products copy the setup.ini to C:\pisetup.ini, and then write the logs to C:\ before moving them to %pipc%\dat, both of w...

From a pharma/biotech user perspective, I am finding that the PI Auditviewer application is difficult to use and conduct an investigation with over an extended time period.  I believe the application needs an overhaul to allow for, at minimum...

On a highly loaded system with thousands of analysis i have one analysis that is misbehaving, missing executions but no skipped count, etc. Currently tracing enables tracing for ALL analysis creating an ocean of logging to plough through for that ...

I want to stop my Event Frame after an amount of time that is stored in an AF Attribute. For my use case, the amount of time from the beginning of an Event Fame is an end triggering condition. One way to do this, would be to allow the EventFrame("...

It should be possible to configure event frames to be acknowledgeable only if a comment/reason code is entered before. we have this requirement sometimes in life science industry, but i can imagine it might be also usefull in other industries (e.g...

As a PI Administrator with a test PI Server, I need to be able to easily promote configurations from our test environment to our production environment. Currently this is extremely difficult and a very manual process.

I want the ability to determine what PI System Configuration Changes (AF & PI Data Archive) are legitimate and approved, with the criteria of being able to focus on changes that occurred during a user defined time range. I want to minimize the...

It would be helpful if you could search by Element Category or Element Description when searching for Analyses in PSE. My setup is 5 templates (CHW, Water, HW, Electric, Steam), each of which have accounts that can come from 5 different sources (s...

I would like the ability to embed a substitution parameter within another substitution parameter. For example, in the following Configuration String: \\%Server%\%@||TagName% I would like to replace with a substitution parameter

I would like to be able to see a log of when users checked in changes to the system in PSE. I recently checked in changes to our PSE system and around the same time, the CPU pegged of SQL server and the analyses slowed way down and other functiona...