Atrium Integrator - Date Field - Data type

2014-01-17 Thread Madhu
We are planning to use Atrium Integrator 7.6.04 to transfer data from a Oracle staging database to the respective Classes. What Oracle Datatype to be used for the Date fields in the staging database ? For e.g. Submit date Installation date etc Oracle Datatype Integer or Timestamp?

FW: Atrium Integrator - Date Field - Data type

2014-01-17 Thread Somavanshi, Yogesh
Oracle Datetime will do. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Madhu Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 4:38 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Atrium Integrator - Date Field - Data type We are planning to use

Re: FW: Atrium Integrator - Date Field - Data type

2014-01-17 Thread Madhu Krishnappa
Thanks Yogesh. I'll try. ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years

SQL Server2012

2014-01-17 Thread teresa S Fannin
List, Anybody have any words of wisdom from there experience of installing SQL Server 64 bit on a Windows 2008 server that will be used by ITSM 8.1. Both will be fresh installs no upgrading. Thanks, Teresa ___

arsignal - mystery flag

2014-01-17 Thread Warren R. Baltimore II
I've been troubleshooting a problem with my server group. Along the way, I noticed in the arsignal log that the following was being issued fairly regularly: arsignal *-z* [SERVERNAME]:[PORT] [RANDOMUSERNAME]:258999161|, Q-size=0 When I pulled the documentation on arsignal though, there is no

Re: [EXTERNAL] Reporting MTTR in ITSM 7.6.4 from SRM?

2014-01-17 Thread Stroud, Natalie K
Howard: I can tell you that we measure MTTR using the Business Hours Duration field from the Assignment Log form. But I can't tell you whether that value gets calculated excluding the time spent in Pending status or not. And you have to be a little careful with it, at least if you build your

Re: CMDB 8.1 Status bug?

2014-01-17 Thread Pierson, Shawn
This hasn't impacted me yet, but I think BMC created a lot of this mess by having CMDB = Asset Management for so long and now splitting it out further. Based on what you've said, it will be interesting to me as well to see what happens with ADDM because we're discovering the location based on

Oracle to MSSQL

2014-01-17 Thread Tommy Morris
AR 7.6.4 I am looking to switch from Oracle to MSSQL and when I asked my DBA manager what the cost of the SQL license would be he fires back this. My first concern is when we talk to Remedy what is their breakdown of what % of people use what database? Secondly what is the expected size of the

Report from multiple forms

2014-01-17 Thread Terri Lockwood
I need to run a report for all open tickets for the past 24 hours. This will include SRM requests, incidents, changes, work orders, and problem tickets. Is there a backend form that I could report off of or should I create a join for reporting for all of them? Trying not to do multiple

Re: Oracle to MSSQL

2014-01-17 Thread Brian Goralczyk
I would be shocked if you could get that information from them. I don't believe that anything they do requires them to find out from you what DB you are using. Any shop I am familiar with has made the decision based on the people they have to support a specific DB type. If you have MSSQL DBAs

Re: Oracle to MSSQL

2014-01-17 Thread Warren R. Baltimore II
My guess is that BMC could probably answwer the question regarding overall usage. I can tell you that MS SQL is widely used though (we use it here). Oracle v. MS SQL arguments are kind of like apple v. windows. Lots of emotion Have fun! On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Tommy Morris

Re: Oracle to MSSQL

2014-01-17 Thread patrick zandi
Oracle to SQL X .20 or add 20% for sizing ... Why? Clobs and Blobs are different in sizing. Speed -- well... Cough cough... ... hopefully you are not leveraging your cluster.. --- hope that helps some. I am doing the same right now.. sniff sniff On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 11:25 AM,

Re: CMDB 8.1 Status bug?

2014-01-17 Thread Ortega, Jesus A
There is a defect open for this : SW00462392, but BMC considers this a RFE. Thank you for the information about what they did. It makes it a bit more clear about they did it, but it still does not help me sell the upgrade. The is more to it than just the process itself. This change impacts a

Re: Oracle to MSSQL

2014-01-17 Thread Mueller, Doug
Tommy, BMC has customers on both Oracle and MS SQL in significant numbers. UNAUDITED but from what we see, the most used database is MS SQL (maybe 60% and then Oracle in the say 30% or a bit more range and others in the less than 10%). Smaller customers are much higher on the MS SQL side.

Why do service requests require a Login ID?

2014-01-17 Thread SUBSCRIBE ARSLIST theReel
Hi Guys, We have a customer who has a few managers that use the SRM Request portal to submit/view requests and also view tickets raised by other users via the Busniess manager console. Not all of this customers users have login Ids for Remedy. 90% submit calls via phone and only a select few

Re: Oracle to MSSQL

2014-01-17 Thread Tommy Morris
Thanks to everyone. I think that I have enough to send to the DBA's. Good info here and I also received some info from our Remedy support partner. All this should help. Gotta love ARSList! From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Mueller,

Re: [EXTERNAL] Report from multiple forms

2014-01-17 Thread Stroud, Natalie K
Terry: Do you have Analytics? If so, you'd have to create separate queries for each module, and it would be easier if you created separate tabs for each module, but you could generate a single report document that pulls all of that. Natalie Stroud SAIC @ Sandia National Laboratories ARS-ITSM

Re: Oracle to MSSQL

2014-01-17 Thread Mueller, Doug
Fred, The 8.1 release of the AR System requires Oracle 11g. So, 11g and later has everything. Now, Oracle has been doing things for years and closing in on this issue. They have added partial support and some conditions. But, until now, we have not had success with finding all the right

BMC Support would like feed back on the Support KB

2014-01-17 Thread Jason Miller
Thought I would share this here. Jesse from Support has asked for feedback on how they can make their KB better (not RKM). He started a discussion specific to AR System here: How can we make the ARSystem knowledge base better?https://communities.bmc.com/message/390122#390122 Which is a offshoot

Re: Oracle to MSSQL

2014-01-17 Thread patrick zandi
There are special indexes to build (we do that for you for all new indexes and you have to do a cleanup script to convert any existing indexes to the new type) for indexed searches to work and with the right settings of options all other comparison operations work. Do I request those scripts

Re: Oracle to MSSQL

2014-01-17 Thread Sanford, Claire
Doug, This is awesome!! Thank you for sharing this! You have no idea how happy some of my users will be!I have already asked my DBA to look into the Oracle version we are on and the possibility of doing an upgrade! ITSM 7.6.04 SP2 ARS 7.6.04 SP3 Oracle 11.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production Win

Re: Report from multiple forms

2014-01-17 Thread John Atherly
I would look at the form the Overview uses in the main table Sent from my iPhone On Jan 17, 2014, at 11:28 AM, Terri Lockwood teresa.lockw...@sungard.com wrote: ** I need to run a report for all open tickets for the past 24 hours. This will include SRM requests, incidents, changes,

Re: Oracle to MSSQL

2014-01-17 Thread Jason Miller
Completely unscientific but it seems I have noticed more people asking about moving from Oracle to SQL Server in recent years. A trend? Jason On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 8:41 AM, patrick zandi remedy...@gmail.com wrote: ** Oracle to SQL X .20 or add 20% for sizing ... Why? Clobs and Blobs

Re: Why do service requests require a Login ID?

2014-01-17 Thread Jason Miller
I don't have the answer to your question however we moved from only IT and certain business users having User records (our older system) to all employees and affiliates having User records so SRM can be used by everybody. To us it just made sense that we want them authenticated so we added them.

Re: Oracle to MSSQL

2014-01-17 Thread patrick zandi
cost:: that is all... for us. IMHO now sure how scientific that is.. 8-) On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Jason Miller jason.mil...@gmail.comwrote: ** Completely unscientific but it seems I have noticed more people asking about moving from Oracle to SQL Server in recent years. A trend?

Re: Oracle to MSSQL (really now is Oracle case insensitivity in 8.1 and later)

2014-01-17 Thread Mueller, Doug
Patrick, Here is a KB article on the subject that includes a discussion configuration and a reference to the cleanup script for the indexes. https://kb.bmc.com/infocenter/index?page=contentid=KA406947 Oh, and Fred I notice you need the 11.2 Oracle clients not just 11g. (see what reading

Re: CMDB 8.1 Status bug?

2014-01-17 Thread Jason Miller
Isn't this the nature of software? Software changes. Hopefully over all for the better but often better isn't better for everybody. Remember when MS introduced the ribbon? That worked well for some and not very well for those that were depending on the old menu style. Every software company

Re: [EXTERNAL] Reporting MTTR in ITSM 7.6.4 from SRM?

2014-01-17 Thread Richter, Howard (CEI - Atlanta)
All, I think that the field I was looking for is called UpTimeChar on the incident is closed. I think that this will only show the total time the incident was worked, minus pending, holiday schedule and non-working hours. However, that I need to verify. With that said have a great weekend,

Re: Incident SLM Data

2014-01-17 Thread Kelly Deaver
** Because the current status isn't really an important value to the service target, it is not stored on the SLM:Measurement form. They way I've gotten around this in the past is to either create a reporting join or an actual Remedy join form. You can do all kinds of interesting reporting if you

Re: arsignal - mystery flag

2014-01-17 Thread Jason Miller
I don't have an answer but if you ask about it on the wiki page the IDD team should research and update the documentation. Jason On Jan 17, 2014 7:17 AM, Warren R. Baltimore II warrenbaltim...@gmail.com wrote: ** I've been troubleshooting a problem with my server group. Along the way, I