Crystal Reports in v7

2008-05-28 Thread sileem hassan
Hi all, we are actuylly migrating to ARS v7. One of the main problems ist that some of the Crystal Reports do not work anymore. Always we get the following error message: 0x80043ac3 - File not found. Details: error (ARERR 1904) After searching the archive here we tried to rename thfolder

Re: Business Objects XI - Solaris MidTier integration issues - RESOLVED

2008-05-28 Thread Prashant Patil
Hi All, My problem is solved. I am able to see reports on the web. The problem was in ARWebReportViewer configuration - AR System ODBC Date Source Connection. During installation of this application on BO server I had given a custom datasource name. But now I changed it to match the standard name

Date fields clarification in Incident Mgmt 7.0.2

2008-05-28 Thread Kenneth
Hi All, I have some questions on the date fields in HPD:Help Desk form. On the Incident User Guide, it says that the 'Responded Date' is actually used for SLM. When an incident is recorded by the HelpDesk and then responded to by the support team, a support person must manually mark that it was

Error on Change Template Tasks ( ARERR 45093 )

2008-05-28 Thread Bulls-n-Bears
Greetings All, Am trying to create a new change ticket using a change template. The ticket got created successfully . When I now switch to Tasks tab and try closing a task with Status reason as Success., I recieve the following error. This task (or group) must be activated (from the parent)

Re: Error on Change Template Tasks ( ARERR 45093 )

2008-05-28 Thread T. Dee
You can not start working on the Task(s) until the Change is in Implementation in Progress. On 5/28/08, Bulls-n-Bears [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings All, Am trying to create a new change ticket using a change template. The ticket got created successfully . When I now switch to Tasks tab

Re: source contol implementation

2008-05-28 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I have used it as well, and it worked fine with version 6.3 of ARS. However, prior versions did have problems (although it could have been an older Source Safe) where you would exit the Admin Tool where things are checked out to you, then when you go back in they are still checked out but not

Re: ARS 4.5.2 license problem

2008-05-28 Thread Henderson, Danielle R CNTR
We finally got the server up and running. Apparently the license had to be enter differently. I was told by BMC Tech support to enter AR System in the field next to the number of licenses in the license tool. Never heard of this but it worked. The unix admins resolved the host ID issue by moving

LDAP login issue....

2008-05-28 Thread Richard Copits
First, a BIG THANK YOU to all who responded to my emails for LDAP advice. I now have it running - and apparently correctly. However, I have one more question. Previously, when I entered username and password into Remedy, a user could log in using just the username and password. Now that the

croom contact

2008-05-28 Thread Deepak Thohan
Hello ARS List, I am trying to find any current contact within Croom Consulting and thought perhaps someone from their organisation watched this list. Or perhaps someone else on the list have up to date information or could pass a request on ? We have been trying to communicate through

Re: croom contact

2008-05-28 Thread Graham Dyer
This is the last contact e-mail I have: James Croom [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Deepak Thohan Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 7:49 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: croom contact Hello

Re: LDAP login issue....

2008-05-28 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
You can add field 118 (AD User Auth) to the User form and backfill it with your domain. FYI Users can also put the domain in the Authentication field on the login and have just their username in the User Name field when logging in. Field 118 is described in the ConfigGuide-630.pdf manual

Re: source contol implementation

2008-05-28 Thread Joe Castleman
I think I have seen something similar happen in 6.3, or at least I think it's what happened: A co-worker left the project before checking an object back in. (Nice.) I tried doing an undo checkout, etc., without admin rights (figuring I might as well try it), and in the process the checked out

Re: Web Services XML Questions - Very Interesting Implementation

2008-05-28 Thread strauss
We don't use web services at all so are not familiar with that particular problem, but we found the same limitations that you did with the HPD:IncidentInterface form when integrating Kinetic Request. We learned that we have to set Kinetic to create HPD:WorkInfo entries directly, and then used

BMC Patrol Training in India?

2008-05-28 Thread Nazish Bano
Hello, would anyone know of any company providing BMC training esp patrol training in India. Of what I saw on BMC education Patrol trainings are offered at Singapore, Hongkong and Australia. -nazish - Planet Earth is in the hot seat. Know

Re: active links not recaching

2008-05-28 Thread Rick Cook
Gary, did you have Development Cache mode turned on or off? Rick On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Gary Opela (Corporate) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Okay, scratch this, it just picked up all of my changes. I have no idea why it took so long or why it didn't re-cache after all of my

Re: active links not recaching

2008-05-28 Thread Kaiser Norm E CIV USAF 96 CS/SCCE
Gary, take a look at the NAME of the AL in question. Does it have a trailing space on the end of it? -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Opela (Corporate) Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:04 AM To:

Re: active links not recaching

2008-05-28 Thread Gary Opela (Corporate)
No, it does not, nor does the second AL I created, neither of which got picked up. Thanks, Gary Opela, Jr., RSP Remedy Engineer Leader Communications, Inc. http://www.5pointleader.com http://www.lcibest.com Best Product, Best People, Best PriceTM An ISO 9001:2000 Certified, CMMI(r) Level

Re: active links not recaching

2008-05-28 Thread Gary Opela (Corporate)
Rick, my Development Cache Mode is unchecked. Thanks, Gary Opela, Jr., RSP Remedy Engineer Leader Communications, Inc. http://www.5pointleader.com http://www.lcibest.com Best Product, Best People, Best PriceTM An ISO 9001:2000 Certified, CMMI(r) Level 3 Rated Company

Re: active links not recaching

2008-05-28 Thread jham36
You could have also gone into your user tool's windows home directory and deleted the arf and arv files for the form you are working on. It wouldn't hurt to delete them all to make sure. Most are within folders resembling the form name. On May 28, 12:15 pm, Gary Opela (Corporate) [EMAIL

Publishing Web services crashes the server - RESOLVED

2008-05-28 Thread Pascale Boyer
Just in case anyone is interested: Our server kept crashing each time someone was trying to consume a web service we were publishing. We had a stack dump. After several tests this is what I found: In the Input and output mapping, the XML type property of the elements were set to True ==

Re: Web Services XML Questions - Very Interesting Implementation

2008-05-28 Thread Carey Matthew Black
I would even go so far as to advocate that the interface should be independent of the OOB stuff. So while the OOB application my have a web service that could work with the current application. There simply is no contract/expectation that the WebService will not change during a patch to the

en_US and ev_CA issue with SRM selecting request

2008-05-28 Thread haeyoon . lee
Hi, I have a ticket open but haven't heard from BMC is a long time. Seems to take them a while to 1. look at the bug 2. admit there is a bug. 3. escalate it 4. get it fixed. Anyway. Does any one with SRM have this issue? If you use en_US on the server but the clients have en_CA or en_AU, it

Next ID Blocking = faster submits?

2008-05-28 Thread Rick Cook
I've been doing some testing to see how much this really helps performance, and my preliminary numbers were surprising and disappointing. NOTE: I don't think a single sample is enough from which to draw a global conclusion. HOWEVER...I am concerned enough to ask some questions. I have two new

Re: Next ID Blocking = faster submits?

2008-05-28 Thread Axton
What about performing the same test creating a series of entries on separate threads. Then break down the results based on the thread count. Axton Grams On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Rick Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** I've been doing some testing to see how much this really helps

Re: Next ID Blocking = faster submits?

2008-05-28 Thread Rick Cook
I could do that, Axton, but I wanted to test the increase in performance of just the NextID blocking. Unless there's something that says that none of these new features will benefit us without enabling them all, I would like to evaluate them individually and in smaller sets before I do them all.

Re: croom contact

2008-05-28 Thread Matt Reinfeldt
Deepak, I have forwarded your e-mail on to James. I'm sure he'll get in touch. Enjoy, Matt R. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Deepak Thohan Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 7:49 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG

Re: Next ID Blocking = faster submits?

2008-05-28 Thread Andrew Fremont
I believe the improvement performance is for multiple concurrent users (100+) submitting entries to the same form. This option may not work best for single user. AF. On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Rick Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** I could do that, Axton, but I wanted to test the increase

MattReinfeldt.com and RemedyUserGroups.com outtage today

2008-05-28 Thread Matt Reinfeldt
Folks, I want to apologize to everyone who was trying to get to my sites today and was unable to. My server went through a painful data center move. J I believe it is all up and running now. Also, I want to take this time to let everyone know that I am starting to migrate my downloads

Re: Next ID Blocking = faster submits?

2008-05-28 Thread Rick Cook
Maybe you're right, Chad. Obviously, BMC did enough testing to know what the break points are, and proved the value of this feature to the point of developing it. I would like to see more of that data, so that I can figure out when/if I might see the benefit on my own system. Rick On Wed, May

Re: Next ID Blocking = faster submits?

2008-05-28 Thread LJ Longwing
Rick, As mentioned by Chad. I have heard this 3rd person...and never experienced it myself, but it's my understanding that the reason that the next-id block feature was implemented was because when you are submitting millions of records an hour (as sometimes happens with the larger shops) a

SLM - What sets the Required Resolution Date?

2008-05-28 Thread LisaD
I have not found documentation to explain the Estimated Resolution Date or the Requried resolution Date on an incident. I see that the estimated resolution date pulls in the first service target's goal date, and that you can manually put in a required resolution date on creation but that's it.

Re: Next ID Blocking = faster submits?

2008-05-28 Thread Rick Cook
OK, so it seems that I wasn't hitting the server hard enough to see a real performance increase. Why would I see a performance DECREASE? Why wouldn't the fact that I'm reducing the number of DB calls and locks show up as a performance increase regardless of load, or at least be a push at lower

Re: Next ID Blocking = faster submits?

2008-05-28 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
You really only have one sample on Server A without NextID blocks, so perhaps a few more samples there would show its really the same as when you used NextID blocks on that server. Which would indicate you weren't bumping the bottleneck that this alleviates. I suspect something is different on

Re: Next ID Blocking = faster submits?

2008-05-28 Thread LJ Longwing
If I had to guess...and this is purely a guess...it's possible that the additional overhead of managing the list with 100 ids in it caused the retrieval to be slower...but that slow down would be insignificant in the circumstances that would cause this table to be a bottleneck. _ From:

Re: SLM - What sets the Required Resolution Date?

2008-05-28 Thread strauss
Me neither, so I made it up as I went along. We are using Estimated Resolution Date as a Start Date and Required Resolution Date as an End Date for scheduled outages, further defining those as Service Type = Infrastructure Event (to be displayed in Kinetic Calendar as scheduled outages). They are

FW: BMC_SLM_JAVA_HOME Error

2008-05-28 Thread Schon, Stuart
Hi I have just been down this path and was finally able to install SLM successfully with JAVA 1.6 on Solaris. The problems I encountered was 1. trying to run it in -console mode, you can't, it says so in the install manual. 2. running in XWindows didn't work either until I ran it as

Re: Next ID Blocking = faster submits?

2008-05-28 Thread Joe D'Souza
Recently I had used 500 as a block when creating about 32 K records in the CTM:People form and User form after using AIE to connect to a PS database. I didn't really see a significant difference in the processing time when not using the Next ID blocking.. In both cases it took an average of about

Re: arslist Digest - 27 May 2008 to 28 May 2008 (#2008-226)

2008-05-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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