Remedy SRM Incident Tibco Integration Issue

2012-06-06 Thread Richard Mozes
** Our Environment: Windows SQL 2 x App Servers and 1 x web server Using the out of the box remedy services Version 7.6.01 Hi everyone, I have a small issue with a new piece of integration I am trying to put in. We have created a process as follows: • End user can create a service

Re: Support - An open letter to BMC

2012-06-06 Thread Warren R. Baltimore II
Jay, First, thank you for your reply. I'm concerned that you are focusing on this one incident. What I experienced yesterday has become indicative of support from BMC. 1st Level support is often times an exercise in futility. If you have been following this thread (as I am sure you have),

Re: Support - An open letter to BMC

2012-06-06 Thread Rick Cook
I agree with Warren that SLA pinging is the rule rather than the exception, at least on initial responses. My experience is that the process you want cannot differ greatly from the process by which you compensate people, or you force them to choose between doing the best thing for the customers

Re: Remedy SRM Incident Tibco - failed to move to 'Incident Closure'

2012-06-06 Thread Jose Huerta
The shown status field is field id 7. The one that has a hidden value is the status reason. So I don't think that this is the problem. Jose M. Huerta Project Manager** Movil: 661 665 088 Telf.: 971 75 03 24 Fax: 971 75 07 94 http://www.sm2baleares.es/ SM2 Baleares S.A. C/Rita

Re: Remedy SRM Incident Tibco - failed to move to 'Incident Closure'

2012-06-06 Thread Nancy Tietz
Is Tibco updating the ‘Last Modified By’ and ‘Last Modified Date’ fields? Also, look for “GO TO 1000” actions in workflow… I’ve had trouble with those before… J *From:* Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] *On Behalf Of *Jose Huerta *Sent:*

Re: Support - An open letter to BMC - surveys?

2012-06-06 Thread Shafqat Ayaz
I receive surveys regularly. On the last survey I gave everything a 1. It asked would I like to be contacted by BMC Support regarding my response, I replied Yes. Never heard from them again. I had escalated the issue to the manager, but nothing much happened anyway, so I just closed the ticket

Re: Remedy SRM Incident Tibco - failed to move to 'Incident Closure'

2012-06-06 Thread Jose Huerta
TIBCO connects to the database or to the API? I assume it connects to the API. If it is true, then those fields will be updated automatically. Jose M. Huerta Project Manager** Movil: 661 665 088 Telf.: 971 75 03 24 Fax: 971 75 07 94 http://www.sm2baleares.es/ SM2 Baleares S.A.

Re: Check if the form is a base form using Developer Studio

2012-06-06 Thread Longwing, LJ CTR MDA/IC
I was wrongI just went and found a join, looked at the forms utilized in that join, then right clicked on one of them and said 'show relationships'...it listed several places where the form was used as a source in a table...but it did NOT list the form is was used as a source of the

Support - An open letter to BMC

2012-06-06 Thread John Baker
Warren, Reference: Not paying for support and losing patches. At JSS, we provide access to updates regardless of whether a customer is paying for support. When politely asking if a customer wishes to renew their support, because we're always grateful for their business, we point out that support

Re: Check if the form is a base form using Developer Studio

2012-06-06 Thread Support
The answer can be found in ARSmarts (www.arsmarts.com). ARSmarts lists all the relationships of all objects type, and also offers you a much better view of Base and Overlay objects. HTH. Kaïs kais.albas...@arsmarts.com On 6/06/2012 15:21, Longwing, LJ CTR MDA/IC wrote: I was wrongI

Re: Check if the form is a base form using Developer Studio

2012-06-06 Thread remedy
I sent this earlier, and just wanted to remind you: ARUtilities will tell you if a form is part of a join. Download ARUtilities (note there is a free trial period) http://www.arutilities.com Login to your server with ARUtilities Search for the form you wish, and double-click it When the details

Re: Check if the form is a base form using Developer Studio

2012-06-06 Thread Longwing, LJ CTR MDA/IC
Agreedso we now know that 1 - Dev Studio DOES NOT provide it, but 2 - ARUtilities, ARSmarts, and ARInside do I'm sure that there are multiple other utilities that provide what I'm sure we would all consider 'basic' information :) -Original Message- From: Action Request System

Re: Support - An open letter to BMC - where we are - where we should ideally be....

2012-06-06 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
I second Warren on this.. Maybe a good start would be, to send out, or at least make a survey available to the customer to rate responses – especially or at least the initial response.. After all the initial response really decides where that ticket may be headed to through its lifespan.. And

Re: Support - An open letter to BMC

2012-06-06 Thread benny shell
Unfortunately this is just the modus operandi for BMC support.. You are lucky they didn't ask you to capture and package up every log you could possible find and send it to them for the 5th time for the same problem. And yes I'm not exaggerating .. 5 diferent times for a problem I eventually

Re: Support - An open letter to BMC

2012-06-06 Thread pritch
That comes in subsequent followups. - Original Message - From: benny shell xosi...@gmail.com To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 10:52:49 AM Subject: Re: Support - An open letter to BMC ** Unfortunately this is just the modus operandi for BMC support..   You are lucky

Re: Support - An open letter to BMC

2012-06-06 Thread Tauf Chowdhury
Good going Warren, you're going to get this poor guy canned... Kidding! Sent from my iPhone On Jun 6, 2012, at 7:52 AM, Warren R. Baltimore II warrenbaltim...@gmail.com wrote: ** Jay, First, thank you for your reply. I'm concerned that you are focusing on this one incident. What I

Re: Check if the form is a base form using Developer Studio

2012-06-06 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
And if you are on a poor man’s budget and do not mind writing a small query to the database, query the schema_join table using the schemaid of the table you want to find out about.. It may turn out to be a bit of a nested query, but doable.. Cheers Joe From: Andrew Fremont Sent: Tuesday,

Re: Remedy SRM Incident Tibco - failed to move to 'Incident Closure'

2012-06-06 Thread arslist
Quite right, I’ve been a little off since I got back from India J That being said is your Tibco integration throwing an error? Is your changes being rolled back or just one change isn’t happening? (API logging I think would find this?). Daniel From: Action Request System discussion

IncidentInterface_Create

2012-06-06 Thread Longwing, LJ CTR MDA/IC
I'm getting thrown into the deep end of ITSM and trying not to splash too much trying to stay afloat and would love some assistance from the more experienced swimmers in these waters. I'm in a situation where I'm creating incidents through a non 'gui' method. From discussions on the list I

Re: Changing Support Group Group Names

2012-06-06 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
Lyle is right.. it shouldn't as the field stores the ID and not the name.. However, that being said, I would look for OTB workflow as well as any customized workflow, that may be using the actual name in some calculation, that may be stored in some fields. I would be more cautious about

Re: IncidentInterface_Create

2012-06-06 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
For whatever it may be worth, I recall problems with this form and the WS associated with it in its OTB state - I do not recall which version but it wasn't any of the most recent ones.. One of the required fields was missing.. I had to create that field both on the form as well as modify the

BMC Networking

2012-06-06 Thread Crosby, Toya
Hi all, My name is Toya Crosby and I'm an Account Manager with TEKsystems in New Orleans. I am reaching out to you to network with Systems Management Engineers with BMC Remedy Atrium CMDB, Atrium Data Dependency Mapping, and ITIL best practices for opportunities that will come up in this

Re: Product Catalog

2012-06-06 Thread Goodall, Andrew C
-Global- is fine, but if the product catalog entry is not displaying - it sounds like something corrupted and got orphaned. Check your new imports against ones you know to work to compare for differences. Regards, Andrew C. Goodall Software Engineer Development Services

Re: Product Catalog

2012-06-06 Thread Hocks, Mike (DOT)
Are you looking at the correct CI Class ... For example LAN Endpoint? Sent from my iPhone On Jun 6, 2012, at 10:34 AM, Goodall, Andrew C ago...@jcp.commailto:ago...@jcp.com wrote: ** -Global- is fine, but if the product catalog entry is not displaying – it sounds like something corrupted and

Re: Support - An open letter to BMC

2012-06-06 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I would also add that they game the SLA system as a rule by trying to close things out for being open too long. On numerous occasions, either myself or one of my colleagues has had a ticket open with BMC Support where BMC made no progress on the issue and didn't respond to us, then after a

Re: IncidentInterface_Create

2012-06-06 Thread ravi rai
LJ , Greetings IncidentInterface_Create act as intermidiate form for landing request to create incident SRM also use this form. webservice HPD_IncidentInterface_Create_WS It works fine in 7604 not sure about 7.57 or previous version Ravi Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 11:24:52 -0400

Re: Support - An open letter to BMC

2012-06-06 Thread arslist
Hi Jay, Would you be willing to stop by the WWRUG12 in October so you can talk in person to the folks having problems with Support? Daniel -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Jay Shankar Sent: June 6, 2012

Re: Support - An open letter to BMC

2012-06-06 Thread Tommy Morris
Daniel, are you going to have security check for pitchforks and torches? -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of arslist Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 11:01 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Support - An

Remedy Integration position-Column Technologies

2012-06-06 Thread Laura Hawkins
Hi all! Column Technologies is currently seeking an experienced Remedy Integration candidate to join our company on a full-time/permanent basis; this position involves an annual salary and full-benefits. We are open to reviewing candidates across the United States, who are eligible to work

Re: IncidentInterface_Create

2012-06-06 Thread Longwing, LJ CTR MDA/IC
Hey Ravi, Yes, I'm familiar with the function of the form, but what I'm not aware of is WHY it's needed. Basic information that I have picked up over the years tells me that because of the fact that HD is VERY active link based, there are various business rules that are written and enforced

Re: Future of the AR System and Web Services...

2012-06-06 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Not ever using ITSM (I have always used pure custom Remedy) I am guessing some here The Related Items section could be from separate sub-forms or if you know there are always the 3 you could use an On-Get filter to pull the data into temporary Display Only fields. I would assume the Work

Re: Support - An open letter to BMC

2012-06-06 Thread dan
I thought a cage match would do the trick :-) I think that face to face conversations add a lot. Even when Remedy support and quality were at their lowest (and I have heard arguments that that was still way above the bar at BMC up until now), and the VP of Worldwide Support was at the

Re: IncidentInterface_Create

2012-06-06 Thread ravi rai
LJ i dont think it does all validation we have written lot of filter and filter guides to do validation which we needed Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 10:12:56 -0600 From: lj.longwing@mda.mil Subject: Re: IncidentInterface_Create To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Hey Ravi, Yes, I'm familiar with

Re: No index on the Name field of BMC.CORE:BMC_BaseElement (7.6.04)

2012-06-06 Thread Thad Esser
Thanks Misi - performance is why I added it last time as well. It just struck me as an important enough field that there should already be an index on it, so I was questioning my understanding of it. Thanks again, Thad On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Misi Mladoniczky m...@rrr.se wrote: Hi,

Re: IncidentInterface_Create

2012-06-06 Thread Longwing, LJ CTR MDA/IC
So what you are saying is that I may be assuming competence where none exists? :) -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of ravi rai Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 10:19 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re:

Re: Changing Support Group Group Names

2012-06-06 Thread Sanford, Claire
Do a search Doug Mueller replied to my question about this last year. So if you look at 2011 archives the answer is there. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Joe Martin D'Souza Sent: Wednesday, June 06,

Re: Support - An open letter to BMC

2012-06-06 Thread Peters, Ron
The 'being open too long' reason is new to me. I just recently (middle of May) had them close a ticket because I gave up on their support. The issue was relatively low in priority but I opened it in October! They asked for logs at least 3 times, had multiple webex sessions to re-demonstrate the

Re: Support - An open letter to BMC

2012-06-06 Thread Sanford, Claire
Honestly... if you get someone in Austin, Atlanta, or California, you will get your ticket resolved and in a manner that speaks to the old Remedy support ways! I've had fantastic support from Russ, Max, Dolly, Dan, Doug... wow! They have a lot of D names there! Paula is a top notch manager!

Re: Check if the form is a base form using Developer Studio

2012-06-06 Thread ravi rai
Show Relationship option is available in Dev studio which will list all relationship It works fine. I am on BMC Remedy Developer Studio Version: 7.6.04 Ravi Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 08:32:43 -0600 From: lj.longwing@mda.mil Subject: Re: Check if the form is a base form using Developer

Re: Support - An open letter to BMC

2012-06-06 Thread David M. Clark
The old California Remedy HelpDesk was great. The off-shored BMC Call Center never was and still isn't. At this point I really don't see anything changing about that. Call me a pessimist, but history is what it is. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion

Clear Button on the Mid-Tier

2012-06-06 Thread Gordon Frank
Does anyone know if there is a control for the Clear button on the Mid-Tier? I have a user that says it doesn't do anything. Or is this user error? I'm having a hard time finding anything which would enable\ disable the Clear button. I don't think it makes sense to disable this  button.

Re: Clear Button on the Mid-Tier

2012-06-06 Thread ravi rai
Clear button works fine and is available only on search mode. Ravi Rai Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 17:02:51 + From: gjj...@comcast.net Subject: Clear Button on the Mid-Tier To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG ** Does anyone know if there is a control for the Clear button on the Mid-Tier? I have

Re: IncidentInterface_Create

2012-06-06 Thread Lyle Taylor
My understanding was that the primary purpose of the interface forms and web services was to provide a more stable integration point for custom integrations. It follows the normal interface vs. implementation paradigm. You publish an interface which establishes a contract between your system

Re: Clear Button on the Mid-Tier

2012-06-06 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
You got to add new form action field in the view you want – its basically a button with an ID 1006.. Cheers Joe From: ravi rai Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 1:24 PM Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Clear Button on the Mid-Tier ** Clear button

Re: No index on the Name field of BMC.CORE:BMC_BaseElement (7.6.04)

2012-06-06 Thread Lyle Taylor
This isn't meant to be a jab at BMC, but I wouldn't question yourself too much when adding indexes that really make sense. I have seen a number of cases where I was pretty much shocked that BMC didn't add an index on a field OOB, because even the OOB functionality didn't work well without it.

Re: Clear Button on the Mid-Tier

2012-06-06 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
Also it should be functional in both modes Submit and Query – its not available in the Modify mode only.. That’s the only restriction I am aware of.. Joe From: ravi rai Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 1:24 PM Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Clear

Re: Check if the form is a base form using Developer Studio

2012-06-06 Thread Longwing, LJ CTR MDA/IC
In your 7.6.4 system if you show relationships on a form you know is in a join, it lists that join form as a relationship? If your answer is yes, that was fixed some time between 7.5 P7 and whatever your patch of 7.6.4. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion

Re: Clear Button on the Mid-Tier

2012-06-06 Thread Gordon Frank
I had forgotten about the field ID. Thanks and I will dig a little deeper to see if somethings a little off on the   form . Thanks - Original Message - From: Joe Martin D'Souza jdso...@shyle.net To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 1:31:43 PM Subject:

Re: Support - An open letter to BMC

2012-06-06 Thread Jay Shankar
Dan, I absolutely would love to do that. Please let me know the details in terms of dates and location and timeslot and I can definitely make it happen. ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org

Re: IncidentInterface_Create

2012-06-06 Thread John Sundberg
Also, I have heard BMC say - that it is a supported way to push into Incident… (You can think of it loosely as an API) As in - BMC owns the responsibility from version to version - that it will work. So - if you are somebody like Kinetic - we should feel somewhat safe to push to incident_create

Re: IncidentInterface_Create

2012-06-06 Thread Sabyson Fernandes
LJ, I have worked with loading incidents directly on the incident form via AIE and bypassing the IncidentInterface_create form. This was for an ITSM 7.0 go-live and moving data from ITSM 6 to ITSM 7 on a different server (a long time ago). Some of the things I had to take into consideration

Re: IncidentInterface_Create

2012-06-06 Thread Longwing, LJ CTR MDA/IC
Yeathe Incidents I'm creating are going to be already in closed status, and won't be having things like person id populated because this is data being migrated from a non-remedy system. Was planning on getting all of my data ready and importing a csv file through the data import tool.

Re: Clear Button on the Mid-Tier

2012-06-06 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
Just bear in mind, it would be supported on Submit, Query and Modify All modes .. It would do nothing on Modify mode.. Basically it works whenever CTRL+E would work on the User tool as it’s the same action.. Do you have a reason to believe its not working for you? If so what kind of behavior

ARInside 3.0.3 released

2012-06-06 Thread Luthgers, John
Hello all, I'm pleased to announce the release of ARInside 3.0.3. The new version is focused mainly on the overlay feature of ARS 7.6.04 but it contains some bugfixes and other improvements too. You can find the latest downloads and the What's New page at http://arinside.org. John

Re: ARInside 3.0.3 released

2012-06-06 Thread Jason Miller
Thank you very much for continuing to support and enhance this wonderful tool! Jason On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Luthgers, John jl...@gmx.net wrote: ** ** Hello all, I'm pleased to announce the release of ARInside 3.0.3. The new version is focused mainly on the overlay feature of

Re: ARInside 3.0.3 released

2012-06-06 Thread Jose Huerta
This deserves a post on my blog. Do you have a logo for the software? Jose M. Huerta Project Manager** Movil: 661 665 088 Telf.: 971 75 03 24 Fax: 971 75 07 94 http://www.sm2baleares.es/ SM2 Baleares S.A. C/Rita Levi Edificio SM2 Parc Bit 07121 Palma de Mallorca

Re: No index on the Name field of BMC.CORE:BMC_BaseElement (7.6.04)

2012-06-06 Thread Chuck
The Email message error form needed an index on message id.This was missing OOB On Monday, June 4, 2012 6:42:06 PM UTC-5, Thad Esser wrote: ** Hello, We are reviewing the customizations we did for CMDB 2.1 in preparation for an upgrade to 7.6.04. Way back when, an index was added

Re: IncidentInterface_Create

2012-06-06 Thread Mahesh
Transactional Data can be loaded using Data Management Tool. For missing information such as Person ID, I would recommend creating a generic People record and use that to load the incidents. Thanks Mahesh On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Longwing, LJ CTR MDA/IC lj.longwing@mda.mil wrote:

Re: Changing Support Group Group Names

2012-06-06 Thread Tomasiewicz, Mike (Information Technology)
We have had success with the Data Wizard and seen no adverse effects when renaming Support Groups. .: Mike T :. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Joe Martin D'Souza Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 10:21 AM

Re: IncidentInterface_Create

2012-06-06 Thread Jason Miller
To clarify... Are you creating an integration or a one-time (or maybe few-time) load? If just a load then I would do as Mahesh suggested and use the Data Management Tool. You probably could get away with importing directly into the Help Desk form but why not use the DMT? If there is a

Re: IncidentInterface_Create

2012-06-06 Thread Ben Chernys
I regularly import to the direct forms. You will have a problem with the closed status. In this case, I import an open ticket and then modify the ticket to the closed (or other) status. You will need to understand and fill in all hidden fields that may be needed - even including Display Only

Re: ARInside 3.0.3 released

2012-06-06 Thread Luthgers, John
Apparently, we dont have a real logo for the software. I could imagine to use the letters ARInside with color #039 as in the documentation if it helps. John Am 07.06.2012 00:17, schrieb Jose Huerta: ** This deserves a post on my blog. Do you have a logo for the software? Jose M. Huerta