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Give the user the option to not start the PI Services following an upgrade. This allows the user further control, especially during an outage/downtime event to perform the first reboot after an upgrade without beginning to take on data or connecti...

This applies also to pharma industry, but customer wants exact documentation of what has changed between releases in the underlaying infrastructure. As example after an upgrade, a particular COM technology was no longer used. This could have resul...

Please delete the blank hidden sheet. It's a useless waste of space. On the PI Data Archive sheet, please use named ranges to make your formulas more readable. This will also make it easier for you to catch any mistakes and quickly check if formul...

When connecting Redis database via DSN we get error. As interface is ASCII and Redis is Unicode. Please add the unicode support for RDBMS interface.

In an HA environment, if the primary Data Archive is unavailable it would be helpful if the Interface Configuration Utility could read the interface configurations from the MDB on the secondary. Additionally, could it be configured so that any cha...

Being able to modify the relevant registry key name in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PISystem\PI-SDK\1.0\ServerHandles for server names which have non asci characters. At the moment, when modifying a server with a non ascii name in the registry the ...

The PI Archive File should keep track of the last modified RecNo. This would make cases where historical archive last modified times are updated (and potentially causing large backups) much easier to track down. In particular, this feature combin...

a common data type encountered are Double Integers as bit flags, where different combinations of each bit of the binary representation of the double integer corresponds to a state. PI's Digital State Sets do not handle these well. First, it requi...

If verbose logging is setup for applications such as (PI Batch) which write to the PI message log (or if you have very busy PI servers with lots of logs), the file sizes can get to several GB in size. It would be good to have the ability to config...

For forecasts, probabilities are assigned to each forecast data. It would be helpful to be able to store this information (metadata) for each forecast value.