ARS 7.1 p1 ITSM 7.0.3 p5 Oracle Sun Hi Folks, Quick Q for any Recon experts. Is there any way to add a target dataset qualification to a merge job? In my case, I have a whack of qualifications for the Source dataset's CI but I want to add a qualification on the destination CI such that if destination CI does not exist then do the merge else if it does exist then only do the merge if this qualification is passed. It seems that ARS is always appending AND 'DatasetID' == "$Src_Dataset_ID$") to any merge qualifications. Similarly, I do NOT want to do the Merge if an attribute is set in an unrelated dataset. Additionally, it seems that there is no way to indicate that a single attribute is NOT to be merged when the CI does not exist in the target dataset. If the CI exists, you can weigh the attribute of the target higher than that of the source. One would have hoped a weight of 0 would mean to NOT merge that attribute at all. Finally, just judging from the logs, it would seem that the SQL is generated to select CIs BEFORE any get workflow, so the fields set by get workflow cannot be used in qualifications. However, this Get workflow could throw errors preventing the recon merges from happening or adjust values as needed. This begs the question: Can a filter cancel an update without throwing an error? We have had many issues with recon some of which have generated SW changes that will be in the "next major release" - not 7.5. It would seem that recon has not been well thought out or is really only designed to handle the specific purpose of merging different discovery products' attributes into a whole CI. Cheers Ben Chernys
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