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PI AF shows who created and last edited an element, but does so by showing the user's ID in format "Domain\UserID" which is not always readable. It would be better to display the AD user's display name in these places to make it clear who performe...

With multi-user AF Servers, it is not unusual for a UOM to end up in the wrong class.  Currently, fixing this issue is not trivial.  If you try to delete the UOM from its current class so it can be recreated in the correct class, you get...

It's possible to inadvertently change the tag attributes for production tags if they are used with an attribute that has tag creation set. It would be safer if there was a lock that allowed new tags to be created, but blocked tag attribute changes...

Allow specifying primary attribute category in AF and allow to use following options in the "Group by -  Category" menu in PI System Explorer: - show attributes in all categories - show attributes in primary category only (hide duplicate attr...

Use case: We want to give a user read access to a single element. All future elements created inherit the Database level Security, meaning the user will also have read access to all future created elements.

Implement a way to hide the contents of a PI point attribute, specifically the Instrumenttag attribute. With many PI interfaces, the InstrumentTag attribute will store the IP address of the source, and we (as well as many other utilities) have a r...

The PI ProcessBook Support Tool allows for tags to be replaced and for PI Data Archive values to be replaced in ProcessBook displays using the Data Item Find and Replace. However, it does not allow you translate tags across PI Data Archives. For i...

As a PI admin, I wish there was a GUI way to set up backup tasks instead of needing to go to the command line to set up my backup task. (FS, 415 hrs) As a PI admin, I have a hard time setting up backup scripts to write to an external data source...

Storing the thread history(pibasess/piarchss etc) along with the connection history will help to better understand and troubleshoot issues on the archive and will serve as a kind of auditing on the behavior of connections.