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Certain plugins in PI SMT do not have features to support future data 1. Snapshot and Archive Statistics (is available only through piartool) 2. Current Data does not subscribe to timeseries in Update Manager 3. Stale and Bad tags

Most of the PI Data Archive information that is accessible from PI System Management tools is perfect for a relational database: PI Identities, PI Mappings, PI Point attributes, PI Message Logs, etc. Moving all of this to an SQL Server database w...

I see too often customers struggling to find the right exception and compression settings. When exception/compression are not well defined, they end up having too many values or missing values, what causes a lot of problems when the affected tag i...

Many of the tuning parameters have units, but the unit can only be found in the tuning parameter's description and is not written consistently (sometimes written in full, sometimes abbreviated, sometimes written as a symbol). Linking the tuning pa...

It would be helpful to determine which users or applications made heavy requests to the Data Archive Server. This could be an option to be activated or not. Logging the ip, user identity, concerned tags, duration of the request Those information a...

To take full advantage of AF and substitution parameters it would be great to have a sort of type ID. Now i have to rename all tags to gain this possibility. It would be easy if i could use a portion of the tag name and a  type id. Then i could de...

I have a particular application for storing partial discharge events into the PI Server.  Many of the events are at the same timestamp, which result in multiple events at the same time.

Currently, there are two methods to 'shift' archives: 1. "Archive_AutoArchiveFileRoot" set to blank 2. "Archive_OverwriteDataOnAutoShiftFailure" enabled Neither method shifts to dynamic archives. We have three sites that merged PI servers, thus...

Currently, if a variable is mapped to an attribute and the attribute's AF path changes, the variable must be remapped to the attribute. Instead of relying on the attribute's full path to identify the attribute, each attribute should be identifi...

Is it possible to enable or disable the parameter EnableAutoBackFilling for different group of Analysis in different database.   The idea is to not have same  parameter EnableAutoBackFilling for all Analysis of all databases on the same AF Server.