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Customer would like to be able to loop future data.  For instance since yearly temperatures are about the same every year for a given month, it would be nice if only one set of the projections are stored somewhere and just repeated again and ...

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...

Create standing metrics for the PI System, especially the PI Data Archive

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...

When you open the Services program (services.msc), none of the PI Data Archive services have a description. Please provide descriptions for these. The specific services are: PI Archive Subsystem PI Backup Subsystem PI Base Subsystem PI Buffer Subs...

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.

Currently, the values of string tags are stored in full for each event, which is a waste of space for string tags that have the same values appearing frequently. To save space, a digital tag can be used instead. However, to create this tag's digit...

Currently, the values of string tags are stored in full for each event, which is a waste of space for string tags that have the same values appearing frequently. To save space, please use dictionary encoding (AKA dictionary coding or dictionary co...

When doing certain changes within the ICU (like configuring buffering for an interface) the end user has to close out of the ICU and then open it back up just for the ICU to refresh and reference change within higher versions of the ICU that have ...