Re: BMC Support Site Rant

2007-10-30 Thread Hugo Visser
I know we are eating our own dog food, our Customer Care department uses ExpertDesk (ofcourse!). And yes, the detailed description field is of length 0. No rocket science there :) On topic, I always assumed that BMC uses some form of ITSM for their support, but they do not? What about the last

Java API 7.1 retrieve example

2007-10-30 Thread Michiel Beijen
Good morning dear listers, I'm not a Java guy but mere a simple Remedy consultant... currently I'm working on a project in which we'll be interfacing with a middleware solution and I have to explain to a java programmer how to retrieve records from a form in Remedy. I already have a sample

Re: Java API 7.1 retrieve example

2007-10-30 Thread Carey Matthew Black
Michiel, Point the Java programmer at the JavaDriver source code. Be warned, I found the v7.1 windows install to be missing two class files. So if your missing them then he will not be able to compile the JavaDriver himself, but it also comes pre-compiled in a JavaDriver.jar file in the windows

Database issue

2007-10-30 Thread Konstantin Pavlov
Hello all, Remedy 7.0.01 patch 004 Server Group DB:10.2.0.2.0 64bit We have this issue: We need to change our default value of DB parameter create storage in row, because our db is 64GB and we want to reduce size of it. storage in row clause is described in

Time change issue on client

2007-10-30 Thread Mahan, Janet L [EQ]
Has anyone had trouble with the client not having the correct time since last Sunday, October 28? Our unix server time is correct and our Windows Citrix server time is correct but 'some' of the users are an hour behind. It seems to correct the problem if we take out the locale and leave it clear

Re: Database issue

2007-10-30 Thread Davies, J.T.
We went through this exact change about two months ago. Our 60gig DB went down to 13gig overnight after my DBA's rebuilt the tables with this parameter. I can't see a reason why you wouldn't use this on an Oracle database...(but then, I'm still pretty green to Oracle.) J.T. -Original

Re: Time change issue on client

2007-10-30 Thread Lockwood, Teresa L
I had one user who was an hour behind but everyone else and our servers were fine. I uninstalled then reinstalled his client and he's fine now. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mahan, Janet L [EQ]

Re: Time change issue on client

2007-10-30 Thread Kaiser Norm E CIV USAF 96 CS/SCCE
Janet: Because you indicate that the problem affects only some of your users, I would suspect this is a client issue, not a server issue. So, first of all, are you certain the Windows OS of the affected users have been patched for DST? I just noticed yesterday morning that my Windows XP desktop

Re: Database issue

2007-10-30 Thread Axton
I found this insightful: http://tkyte.blogspot.com/2007/02/i-learn-something-new-every-day.html Axton Grams On Oct 30, 2007 10:48 AM, Davies, J.T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We went through this exact change about two months ago. Our 60gig DB went down to 13gig overnight after my DBA's rebuilt

New ITSM Dataload Utility

2007-10-30 Thread David Charters
Listers, I am trying to use the latest ITSM Dataloader from BMC for loading foundation data into ITSM. I am having issues with it. Has anyone used this tool successfully? I am having the following challenges: Data is not showing up in the Data Validation screen, this worked before and now

Re: New ITSM Dataload Utility

2007-10-30 Thread Rick Cook
Dave, I haven't used that, but I have used the advanced version of Effective Technologies' Datalink tool, and that seems to work fine for adding user perms. Rick On 10/30/07, David Charters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Listers, I am trying to use the latest ITSM Dataloader from BMC for

Re: Delete - Entry

2007-10-30 Thread Blankenship, Mark (Mark)
I don't think so. I have always used 2 pieces of workflow. 1st. Sets flag to 'Delete'. Based on whatever qual. 2nd. If flagged, run Delete process. Mark Blankenship -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of E. Louise

Re: New ITSM Dataload Utility

2007-10-30 Thread Matt Ferrigno
Hey David, I used this last week, on AR 7.0.01 patch for without any major issues for the product catalog. Though the first time I ran it, something strange happened and the validation didn't go through. I went into the DLD:Thread Manager form, ran an unqualified search and deleted all the

Re: New ITSM Dataload Utility

2007-10-30 Thread David Charters
For example I have data in the CTM:LoadPeople form but it never pushed anything to the DLD:SYS:DataLoad order form. There is an underlying issue I had to over come. Def files pulled from previous versions of ARS (i.e. ARS 7.0.2) will not import into 7.1. So I had to work around by importing into a

Slow Incident Submit time with SLM

2007-10-30 Thread William Rentfrow
I'm testing some stuff and I'm experiencing very slow Incident submit times right now. I'm using SLM 7.03 and Incident 7.02. I have two service targets defined for a particular Incident - and submit time has now gone to about 30 seconds for a single Incident. I'm working through the logs, etc

Re: Delete - Entry

2007-10-30 Thread Robert Halstead
Louise, Application-Query-Delete-Entry AP:Detail 'Request' = $Request ID$ 'Status-Dtl' = Pending I think you need an AND in that qualification. Application-Query-Delete-Entry AP:Detail 'Request' = $Request ID$ AND 'Status-Dtl' = Pending Application-Query-Delete-Entry takes 2 params, the first

Re: Delete - Entry

2007-10-30 Thread E. Louise van Hine
Yes it does work after adding an AND, thanks folks. -- Regards, Louise van Hine [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting Robert Halstead [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Louise, Application-Query-Delete-Entry AP:Detail 'Request' = $Request ID$ 'Status-Dtl' = Pending I think you need an AND in that qualification.

Re: BMC Support Site Rant

2007-10-30 Thread Carey Matthew Black
A bit of clarification on the topic... I was contacted by a BMC person off list to explain the situation. BMC is using an ARS application to support their external customers. (no surprise there, just look at the URL's on the support site) However it is the Customer Support application and not

Re: BMC Support Site Rant

2007-10-30 Thread David.M Clark
My personal experience is that one word sums up how bad their support is at this point: Bhopal Carey Matthew Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/30/2007 1:24 PM A bit of clarification on the topic... I was contacted by a BMC person off list to explain the situation. BMC is using an ARS application to

Re: BMC Support Site Rant

2007-10-30 Thread William Rentfrow
I think I'd have to support their position of using the Customer Support product. ITSM didn't go into general release until mid-last year (I forget exactly when). Their project to put the customer support product into place probably started months before that - quite likely before they even had

Re: Slow Incident Submit time with SLM

2007-10-30 Thread Howard Richter
William, Are you also seeing a delay on the notification Howard On 10/30/07, William Rentfrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** I'm testing some stuff and I'm experiencing very slow Incident submit times right now. I'm using SLM 7.03 and Incident 7.02. I have two service targets defined

Re: Slow Incident Submit time with SLM

2007-10-30 Thread William Rentfrow
I'm not exactly sure how you mean that - I'm using the email engine and I've got it set up to poll every 5 minutes - I get the notification within the 5 minute cycle but I haven't checked to see how long it takes to generate the notification for the request. Or are you referring to

Re: Slow Incident Submit time with SLM

2007-10-30 Thread Robert Halstead
William, We also get a lagged response from Remedy when a ticket is saved. We haven't been able to track it down to a cause but have been blaming it on the network. Essentially, the user client shows the ticket number created in the status bar right after the save button is clicked, however,

ORA-01406 SQL error in Active Link

2007-10-30 Thread Dwayne Martin
Hello Everyone, I am getting an error in an Active Link that says, ARERR [552] Failure during SQL operation to the database : ORA-01406: fetched column value was truncated. This happens during a Set Fields operation where it is reading a value from another form. The Set Field is very similar

Re: Slow Incident Submit time with SLM

2007-10-30 Thread Howard Richter
William, I have seen on our system were you would create the incident, which creates the service request and then does the auto assign, in less then 15 seconds. However the assignment notification could take up to 15 minutes to hit the email messages form (and then go out using the engine).

Re: ORA-01406 SQL error in Active Link

2007-10-30 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Since it is a column value that is truncated, what is the size of the data and the size of the fields you are putting them into? Did someone change the size of a field on either form? C1,C2,C561000203,C8 Fred -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: Are Surveys generated for all Incidents in ITSM 7.0?

2007-10-30 Thread Kevin Shaffer
In the Incident Rules form, I think you would have to select Yes to Create Request on Submit for Surveys to be sent for an incident that originates from the Incident Management form Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:15:23 -0600From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Are Surveys generated for all Incidents in ITSM

Estimated Resolution Time bug on Incident

2007-10-30 Thread E. Louise van Hine
I asked about a week ago whether anyone else had noticed that when Incidents are created, the Estimated Resolution Time was getting set to Next Target Date instead of the appropriate calculated value from the service level record. I reported this to BMC and was given the existing defect number:

Re: BMC Support Site Rant

2007-10-30 Thread Warren Baltimore
I think that the point of why support has suffered is missed when we blame only the off-shoring of support. The real problem is that they made a decision to do away with the support staff (thus cutting payroll), and off shoring it. If they had decided to do away with the support staff and hire

Re: BMC Support Site Rant

2007-10-30 Thread Timothy Powell
I know many of those former support peopleI bet more would come back than you might think.especially if they came back to something that was more like the old Remedy. The point being, that the old Remedy was successful, profitable and had VERY happy customers. It had the most loyal

Re: BMC Support Site Rant

2007-10-30 Thread Sorrel Jakins
I had Remedy web down for four days because w3wp.exe was in a constant loop. Rebooting the server did not help. Support originally told me my Java was too good - I had to downgrade from 1.5 to 1.4.something. Still in a loop in a loop in a loop. So using cunning born of years of practice, I

ADM:BUW:ARSlist Pins

2007-10-30 Thread daniel . bloom
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Re: BUW:ARSlist Pins

2007-10-30 Thread Burkholder, Anthony O
Stop teasing us. Anthony O. Burkholder One of the many only there in spirit. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 7:41 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: