BMC Asset Managment V/s Altiris™ Asset Management Suite

2011-02-28 Thread Bhupesh Gupta
BMC Asset Managment V/s Symanteic Altiris™ Asset Management Suite Which one is better ? Any suggestions.. -- Regards, Bhupesh Gupta ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug11 www.wwrug

Re: tab recovery on helpdesk form

2011-02-28 Thread Ars Lister
Diane, If you used the Migrator tool and if your latest migrating script (or def file) includes the Help Desk Form, you can pit the script against the appropriate server (hopefully not production), do a difference report (should only contain that missing tab and fields), and then migrate over t

Re: is it possible to get attachments from a vendor form..........

2011-02-28 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, You just implement the ARDBCGetEntryBLOB-call in your ARDBC-plugin. I actually did just that doing a general purpose Documentum-integration for accessing your documents through the ARUser-interface. The data is not encrypted, but rather compressed. This is done between the client and server,

Re: Customizing Notifications

2011-02-28 Thread Raja v
Thanks Danny for your valuable time, I successfully added company and assigned groups by clicking the create button in the updated notifications dialog. I set group and individual notifications to no and default notification to none for Incident resolution, but still I am getting emails. Also i

Re: malloc error

2011-02-28 Thread Nair, Rajesh SISPL
Dear LJ, I had restarted the process couple of time last weak. Nothing comes up in the error log. @ Roger: Will take you thought under consideration. With Best Regards Rajesh Nair Siemens IT Solutions and Services GmbH SIS GO GAA GPC IN HCC 247 Park, Hincon House, Tower-A, 8-10th floor, LBS Road,

Re: Customizing Notifications

2011-02-28 Thread Danny Kellett
Hi, It shouldn't be read only. Make sure you login as that user. Then try Regards Danny From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Raja v Sent: 28 February 2011 13:25 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Customizing Notifications **

Re: Frustrations with Remedy Developer Studio 7.5

2011-02-28 Thread strauss
I’ve lost mine. This so-called “application” is a HUGE piece of ^%$#% on the best day. Today I am fighting to clean up the dregs of the first Best Practices Conversion Utility run, and I have to edit three things side by side; the customized active link prefixed with two * that was active, the

Re: tab recovery on helpdesk form

2011-02-28 Thread Doug Blair
Diane, This may be tricky, but it's not impossible. If you deleted the tab *accidently*, you probably would have only deleted it from one view. The tab may still be present in other views of the form. Look at other views and see it you can find the tab first. If it is in another view, you sho

Re: ARERR [8959] The XML data type is not supported. <>

2011-02-28 Thread Mark Milke
Fred, my Priority field is a Character Field. When I consume their web service the say that their priority field is a

Re: How to flag messages coming in through a web service?

2011-02-28 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
CLIENT-TYPE should tell you if it is a Create operation in a Web Service. >From ar.h #define AR_CLIENT_TYPE_WEBSERVICE 34 /* Webservice */ Fred -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Mark Milke Sen

Re: ARERR [8959] The XML data type is not supported. <>

2011-02-28 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
When you map to an ARS Selection field (Selection List, Check box, or Radio Button) the Web Service wants the displayed string value and not the numeric value. i.e. If the Values are Low, Medium, and High (number values = 0, 1, 2) you need to pass the text (Low, Medium, and High) and not 0,1,2

Re: trying to query ARRemedy 6.3 data from ARserver 7.5.....help me with any ideas

2011-02-28 Thread gok's
Thanks for response Sabyson I worked as you said but when I query any records it is taking a lot of time some times time out error because I need to get related tasks as well and moving the tables which my manger don't want to do it. So i am trying with stored proc to set a parameter value to get

How to flag messages coming in through a web service?

2011-02-28 Thread Mark Milke
Hi Listers, I have a table in that filters and a web service are creating records. How can I figure out which records are coming in through a web service? Is this possible with CLIENT-TYPE? Or how do you do it? Mark __

Re: ARERR [8959] The XML data type is not supported. <>

2011-02-28 Thread Mark Milke
I think I'm one strep further. I've discovered that the error occurs only when I set the priority field during the consumption of the Web Service. Their WSDL looks here like this:

Re: is it possible to get attachments from a vendor form..........

2011-02-28 Thread Joe DeSouza
Wouldn't the proprietary encryption that Remedy uses for its attachment create a problem to read attachments stored by some other application in a foreign table in a BLOB? Or is the Vendor form functionality smart enough to know that since its not a ARS attachment to use the regular database co

Re: tab recovery on helpdesk form

2011-02-28 Thread Joe DeSouza
You do not delete if something is not required.. That is an extremely bad development practice in Remedy. You hide ot remove from view. Once a field is deleted, it alters the table. I understand that a tab is not quite a data field on a table, but it works much the same way as if it were a data

Re: ARERR [8959] The XML data type is not supported. <>

2011-02-28 Thread Mark Milke
Fred, thank you so much for your reply! I'm on 7.5 Patch 7 and Mid-tier 7.6.3. I've changed the logging to debug so. I now can see the actual XML being passed between the systems. Unfortunately I can't see any error in the arjavaplugin.log. I shows me the XML being passed forth and back. In th

Re: Huge queries hogging up the database

2011-02-28 Thread Axton
:"SYS_B_XX" is an Oracle bind variable. Oracle strips all the literals and replaced them with bind variables because CURSOR_SHARING is set to SIMILAR or FORCE. This is ok. The Remedy SQL logs should be used to get the SQL statement with the literal values. This could be a case where a user is

Re: CMDB dev to production

2011-02-28 Thread Hulmes, Timothy CTR MDA/DXCO
The best way to achieve this is to export the CI's into a CSV. Then use AIE to bring them from excel into production. Tim -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of John Doe Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 9:47 A

Re: Huge queries hogging up the database

2011-02-28 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Just a note ... He probably got the query from a DBA as this is what you see in the V$SQL view in Oracle when running with the Oracle-Cursor-Sharing option of SIMILAR or FORCE. With cursor sharing set to FORCE or SIMILAR, Oracle replaces literal values with system generated bind variables in th

Re: trying to query ARRemedy 6.3 data from ARserver 7.5.....help me with any ideas

2011-02-28 Thread Sabyson Fernandes
You can look into creating a Database link between the 6.3 ARSystem database and the 7.5 ARSystem database. Then create a database SQL view in the 7.5 database that points to the 6.3 database change form. You can then create a view form that points to this DB view and you can access the 6.3 chan

Re: Huge queries hogging up the database

2011-02-28 Thread Mueller, Doug
Vikram, Several observations about this command: First, this command seems to have been run through some kind of translator that has taken every string between "" symbols and replaced it with an incrementing string of SYS_B_xx where xx is an incrementing number. Because of this, it is a bit har

Re: ARERR [8959] The XML data type is not supported. <>

2011-02-28 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
It sounds like the problem is in the data being returned back to ARS (the Output mapping) from the external system so it may not occur on every transaction. Depending on which ARS version you are using turn on the Plugin log and set the Plugin log version to Info or Debug. With the logging turn

Re: Huge queries hogging up the database

2011-02-28 Thread Joe DeSouza
Looks like this may be a customized piece of workflow that is running this query to search for record sets where the Assignee Group field contains values ranging from SYS_B_01 to SYS_B_66. And what are all those colons doing there? Is this a query you have written in a search menu or a table

Re: tab recovery on helpdesk form

2011-02-28 Thread Meek, Diane
Accidently deleted a tab we had created on the helpdesk form and I am wondering if there is way to recover just the tab itself. Diane ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug11 www.wwrug.

Re: is it possible to get attachments from a vendor form..........

2011-02-28 Thread Meek, Diane
Is it possible to recovery a tab created on the pageholder for helpdesk form? Diane ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug11 www.wwrug.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"

ARERR [8959] The XML data type is not supported. <>

2011-02-28 Thread Mark Milke
Hi Listers, I've build a SOAP Message Queue and I'm testing a web service with our partner. I'm testing in manual mode, i.e. I'm setting every message's status to Completed in order to initiate the comsumption of our partner's Web Service. While consuming a web service I'm getting the error ment

Re: is it possible to get attachments from a vendor form..........

2011-02-28 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, The Vendor-form-functionality (ARDBC) definitely supports the attachment data type, but if ARGetEntryBLOB is fully supported depends on that specific implementation of ARDBC. Are you writing your own plugin or do you make use of one that someone else wrote? Many of the Vendor-forms supplied

Re: FB:Datasource and FB:DataSource

2011-02-28 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, Interesting to see that the def was still shipped with the 7.6.03 installer ;-) Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://www.rrr.se Products from RRR Scandinavia (Best R.O.I. Award at WWRUG10): * RRR|License - Not enough Remedy licenses? Save money by optimizing. * RRR|Log - Performance i

Re: Asset Management 7.1 to 7.6.04

2011-02-28 Thread Roger Justice
There is no support way with DDMT. Review the required fields and any hidden fields to see if an export/import will work. All other forms for SAM will need to be created. -Original Message- From: Chowdhury, Tauf To: arslist Sent: Mon, Feb 28, 2011 10:18 am Subject: Re: Asset Manage

is it possible to get attachments from a vendor form..........

2011-02-28 Thread gok's
hi all, I am trying to get data from out side and most of the data had attachments in .txt and pdf and .doc is it possible to get those through by using the vendor form. Thanks in advance -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/is-it-possible-to-get-attachments-from-a-vendor-form

Re: FB:Datasource and FB:DataSource

2011-02-28 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
The regular version (FB:DataSource) was for the 6.3 (and maybe 7.0.x, but I skipped that version so I'm not sure) versions of the ARS system. Flashboards for ARS 7.1.x (and above) switched to a vendor form (FB:Datasource). You can safely delete the old form as Flashboards no longer uses it. F

Hi all need information regarding how to set data from Java API to my form.

2011-02-28 Thread gok's
I am trying to use Java API to get data from out side for this I created Java API and saved it in Arserver location.By using command line I invoked it by passing a input parameter according to scenario it will query the required data from database and it should set the values in my test form.Here

Re: Asset Management 7.1 to 7.6.04

2011-02-28 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Sorry, Asset Management 7.0.3 Tauf Chowdhury | Forest Laboratories, Inc. Analyst, Service Management Mobile:646.483.2779 From: Chowdhury, Tauf Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 10:17 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Asset Management 7.1 to 7.6.04 Al

Asset Management 7.1 to 7.6.04

2011-02-28 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
All, Is there a way to migrate over Asset Contract information for software licenses into the Contract Management of 7.6.04? For example, in the new system, there are certificates that need to be created but this doesn't exist in 7.1. Has anyone done this during an upgrade or migration? Thanks...

Re: malloc error

2011-02-28 Thread LJ LongWing
Rajesh, Malloc errors are problems with the system being able to allocate memory (Memory ALLOCation). What this indicates is that your system is close to the maximum memory allowed for your architecture, seeing as you are running such an old version, it's possible that there are leaks that have l

Re: Huge queries hogging up the database

2011-02-28 Thread LJ LongWing
Well, the use of multiple assignee groups is certainly the reason for all of the 'OR's in your query, why EVERYTHING is a 'LIKE' statement probably contributes as well... -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of vikra

Re: malloc error

2011-02-28 Thread Roger Justice
I worked on that configuration 6 years ago and we found that the Oracle Client tools that had been loaded on the Server had a known memory leak. Review any documentation you can google about this error. -Original Message- From: Nair, Rajesh SISPL To: arslist Sent: Mon, Feb 28, 2011

malloc error

2011-02-28 Thread Nair, Rajesh SISPL
Hey List, We are getting Malloc failure on the Server, Not that the application is down,everything seems to be ok. This occurs if some one gives a search for ticket for a time period more that 1 month. ARSYTEM 6.3 patch 23 Oracle 9i With Best Regards Rajesh

Re: Database Migration Effort

2011-02-28 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, If you have kept from creating stored procedures and too many direct sql calls, the transition is very easy. Just export/import the application using ARAdmin/DeveloperStudio, and transfer the data using RRR|Chive. Character encoding differences etc will be handled by the API. Best R

Re: Customizing Notifications

2011-02-28 Thread Raja v
Hi Danny and Listers, I have tried updating through notifications tab in people form, but I am not able to set company and groups in the notifications options. These company and assign group fields are always read only. I want to know how to set the company and groups in update notifications (N

Database Migration Effort

2011-02-28 Thread Jim Coryat (jcoryat)
Hello fellow listers! I have a question regarding the amount of effort required to migrate the underlying database for ARS from one vendor to another. I am interested if anyone has done this and the level of effort that was required as well as the strategy that you employed (export/import vs. dat

Re: Customizing Notifications

2011-02-28 Thread Danny Kellett
Sorry just read you tried that. Then make sure you do it for all your groups that you belong to and finally, run a filter log to see why you are still getting the notifications. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Raja v Sent: 28 Febru

Re: Customizing Notifications

2011-02-28 Thread Danny Kellett
Hi, You can set to not receive individual assignments. Open any console, select profile, notifications tab, click update notification preferences then create any rule matching the ones you don't want and make sure you select the Individual and Group notifications to No. Then save. Regar

Customizing Notifications

2011-02-28 Thread Raja v
Hello Listers, Does anyone know how to customize Email notifications. I need to receive email only on ticket assignment of an incident and I don't want to get emails on in progress, resolved, closed, cancelled status for single customer. I tried using single tendency mode to that customer and al

Re: Huge queries hogging up the database

2011-02-28 Thread vikram_k
is it any how related to Allowing Multiple Assignee Group option in Server info..??. vikram_k wrote: > > hi all, > > I had recently put some posts regarding AR Performance and I am thankful > that most of my problems are now resolved. But there is one issue which is > a bottle neck I am seeing

Re: Huge queries hogging up the database

2011-02-28 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, Do you have an index on the T28.C536870993 field? Getting a working index on that field will probably be the key to improve the performance in this case. The T28.C112 has to do with row level permissions, and should not be a problem as long as the rest of your query is good. Best Re

Re: Remedy 7.5 and utf8

2011-02-28 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, I have not tried this on Informix, but on Sybase, Oracle and MS-SQL. Remedy counts bytes, so the 255-byte character field will still be 255 bytes long. The problem is when you migrate your data, where a 255-character string will not allways fit in 255-bytes. In 99% of the cases, the string w

TEST - PLEASE IGNORE

2011-02-28 Thread Mark Herring
This is a test, please ignore Kind Regards Mark ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug11 www.wwrug.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"

FB:Datasource and FB:DataSource

2011-02-28 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, I am having trouble converting a database to Case Insensitive, as there are two forms with the same name but different case. FB:Datasource (Vendor) FB:DataSource (Regular) If I compare this to my Windows-version of 7.6.03/04, the FB:DataSource is missing. I have imported the FB:DataSource m

JOB: BMC ITSM and CMDB Engineers (technical and functional) needed in Europ.

2011-02-28 Thread ilidio
Hello, We are seeking 3 engineers, for a permanent position in Switzerland with the following profile: 5 to 10+ experience in consulting and implementing ITSM and CMDB Solutions based on Remedy ARS technonlogy. Experenced with ITSM 7.5 and upper versions. Hability to work in Switzerland (B o

Remedy 7.5 and utf8

2011-02-28 Thread irina solarcuka
Hi, I've got the question about Remedy (7.5) and Informix (utf8). We are going to migrate the workflow and data from Remedy 7.1 (Informix cp-1257) to Remedy 7.5 (Informix utf8). As far as I know the ARS 7.5 allows to set the Length Unit to Characters (not Bytes). What will happen with data if the

Huge queries hogging up the database

2011-02-28 Thread vikram_k
hi all, I had recently put some posts regarding AR Performance and I am thankful that most of my problems are now resolved. But there is one issue which is a bottle neck I am seeing a huge oracle query like SELECT T28.C1,C600011000,C536870984,C536870913,C900106001,C901050057,C536871019,C90020040