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I would like to be able to reference the parent of a element reference. As it currently stands, it is only possible to reference the original parent element of an element.

A higher Cache time for the PI EFGEN would be great. Currently the limit ist 60 days.

I would like to easily define if a derived template will inherit an analysis. This derived template should have a check box on the analysis that says: 'Do not Inherent'. Without this option I have to disable the analyses mapped to the derived temp...

We've successfully migrated our entire PI System into the AWS environment. Therefore it would be very nice if the pibackup.bat script would be able to directly backup to an S3 bucket.

The pidiag -xa utility doesn't support selecting a folder location and exporting the contents to a single XML/TXT file. This would be very helpful for bulk auditing actions.

When enabling auditing, the default CDC tables are created within the ASSETS filegroup in SQL, while all replication tables are created in the AUDIT filegroup. It would be good if all CDC tables were in the AUDIT filegroup so that all of the audit...

We have many calculations following this basic pattern - take recorded values of one attribute, apply a filter (using FilterData), then retrieve values of a second attribute at the filtered timestamps of the first attribute. Currently, we cannot r...

For unitless values you can assign a unit of measure by using the Convert() function. To further convert this to another UoM in the same class you need to nest another Convert() function. For example, Convert(Convert(3600, "s"), "h")) It would sim...

Pi Notifications should have smarts to exclude or N/A message body content for excluded attributes created from templates. Currently if we have say 4 attributes in an element template, and some instance elements have a couple of those "excluded", ...

We often write outputs at close to event frame attributes that reference a PI Point attribute on the referenced element. The analysis will not write to an EF attribute if it points to a referenced element attribute at the child level. In the examp...