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‘Outputs at close’ is very powerful and flexible. It allows one to use expression analysis syntax in event frames. Unfortunately, it is only available for generation mode 'explicit trigger', but not for 'pulse', 'step', or 'step continuous'. If y...

When a notification is not sent, it's very difficult to follow which notification has been sent or not. In case where the notification has'nt been sent, have the possibility to send manually the notification.

There are other similar ideas out there on this site but I would like to see the ability to skip numbers in the Digital States Enumeration. We have areas of the plant that have states which don't map well to a 1,2,3.... set of states. Some are bit...

When a element or analysis template description is changed, descriptions of existing elements or analyses are not updated. The description is only updated when the element or analysis is created. A customer has proposed the following options: I...

In many UseCases we need more programability functions in PI. As example loop functions. We like the AF Framework, beacuse if you search in case of a problem you are very fast. But the functionaclity is unfortunatly not very rich. Please integrat...

Currently you can add a query or stored procedure to the library in AF. From there you can retrieve data to be used in an attribute via table lookup. What I am looking for however, is to be able to directly execute a stored procedure from an analy...

https://docs.osisoft.com/bundle/pi-server/page/permissions-required-for-tasks.html According to the documentation linked above, when permission to Point Security or Data Security is required, the same permission to PIPOINT is also required. This i...

When troubleshooting intermittent issues, using AFGetTrace may be problematic as the trace can consume quite a bit of disk space, and setting a maximum file size will cause the trace to stop once the file is full. Without knowledge of when the iss...

To account for the different historical implementations of Daylight Saving Time in different regions, a localhost.tz file is added to the %piserver%\dat directory after installation. As an installer of PI Data Archive, I would like the localhost.t...

With everyone having virtual servers these days the host VM and SAN storage are on separate devices. When the storage device is unavailable or disconnected even briefly, the PI Archive process errors and gets DISABLED and can ONLY be restarted by ...