Deeeeeep Breath everyone! It's not going away tommorow. Heck, it's not even going away in 2-3 years! BMC didn't get where they are today by being complete idiots (I know, it doesn't always seem that way). They are very aware of the current limitations that the midtier can have. There are a lot of bugs to figure out I'm sure. I for one would welcome this (IF it is done right). A thin client can offer so many positives in any shop. Just remember, when it is released, neither the thin client or the browser(s) it runs on will be the same as they are today....
Warren On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Jason Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > ** I thought about that originally as a possible solution and technically > you could make it work. You would lose functionality that the ARS server > provides and would have to manually build it into your reports, reporting db > (like a universe, etc) or into the db (views, etc). ARS is built do offer > up meta-data where appropriate. > > Examples would be: > - Form and field permissions would not be enforced. Users would see all > fields and forms. > - Row level permission would not be enforced. This could be huge now > with multitenancy in ITSM 7 > - Selection fields would show their numeric value > - Date/Time, Date, and Time fields would show their db value which would > have to be converted to be human readable > > I think most of this could be address by an BI suite (BOXI, Cognos, etc) > but now you are looking at having a developer just to manage a BI suite and > reports. With the AR ODBC any of my users that have Crystal Reports or even > MS Access can use the AR ODBC driver to gather data without my assistance. > > Jason > > On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Scott Hammons < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> They will probably move from using the ODBC driver to JDBC drivers for the >> DB platforms. Most enterprise web based applications do this already. >> >> Just my .02. >> >> Scott >> >> >> ________________________________________ >> From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [<a href="mailto: >> ars_Platinum Sponsor: [email protected] ARSlist: "Where the >> Answers Are"_ > > -- Warren R. Baltimore II Remedy Developer 410-533-5367 _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor:[email protected] ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
