Re: Performance Tuning

2012-03-14 Thread Andrew C Goodall
These are for 7.6 - I don't know about 7.1 BMC Remedy AR System Server 7.6 Performance Tuning for Business Service Management http://documents.bmc.com/supportu/documents/90/37/199037/199037.pdf The mid-tier deployment guide is from:

perl soap lite examples

2012-03-14 Thread Andrew C Goodall
For anymore who is interested these are some Perl SOAP::Lite examples for opcreate, opset, opget, and opgetlist. I haven't used these in a while, but remember it took me a while to figure out how to consume the remedy web services in perl - so thought these may help someone else out.

Re: perl soap lite examples

2012-03-14 Thread Andrew C Goodall
From: Andrew C Goodall Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 12:04 PM To: 'arslist@ARSLIST.ORG' Subject: RE: perl soap lite examples Attempting this again as a zip attachment. For anymore who is interested these are some Perl SOAP::Lite examples for opcreate, opset, opget, and opgetlist

Re: perl soap lite examples

2012-03-14 Thread Andrew C Goodall
Here are text versions to try and get around the attachment blocking. Regards, Andrew Goodall Software Engineer 2 | Development Services | jcpenney . www.jcp.com http://www.jcp.com/ From: Andrew C Goodall Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 12:09 PM

Re: perl soap lite examples

2012-03-14 Thread Andrew C Goodall
2 | Development Services | jcpenney . www.jcp.com http://www.jcp.com/ | 972.431.1518 From: Andrew C Goodall Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 12:04 PM To: 'arslist@ARSLIST.ORG' Subject: RE: perl soap lite examples Attempting this again as a zip

Re: Automate Cache Flush - RANT

2012-03-06 Thread Andrew C Goodall
You obviously didn't read the text of this thread. :) Perhaps you meant to post this to the main Automate Cache Flush thread? - http://www.javasystemsolutions.com/arslist/view/89045563 What is engineering going to do to relieve the effort and time spent by your customers in managing this flush

Re: Automate Cache Flush - RANT

2012-03-02 Thread Andrew C Goodall
On a similar note... There's got to be a better design that would not need to utilize this form of caching in the first palace. We go through this nightmare everytime we deploy - it's a headache. We have 2 active mid tier servers (Windows/Tomcat) active to users. So everytime we deploy we

Re: Automate Cache Flush - RANT

2012-03-02 Thread Andrew C Goodall
ITSM is. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Andrew C Goodall Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 8:14 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Automate Cache Flush - RANT ** On a similar note... There's got to be a better design

Re: SOAP API

2012-03-02 Thread Andrew C Goodall
Another tip that help me was to set MinOccurs = 0 and Nillable = true where appropriate. This can be found by clicking the ... next to the xml data type attribute, called XML Properties On the BMC OOTB web services they left MinOccurs = 1 and Nillable = false even for optional fields, not

rich text field

2012-03-01 Thread Andrew C Goodall
Is there a rich text field in remedy? Regards, Andrew Goodall font face=monospacesize=-3brThe information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and brmay contain confidential and/or privileged material. If the reader of this message is not

Re: rich text field

2012-03-01 Thread Andrew C Goodall
) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Andrew C Goodall Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 1:10 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: rich text field ** Is there a rich text field in remedy? Regards, Andrew Goodall The information transmitted is intended only for the person

ARERR 1889 received on changing date to 03/11/12 02:00

2012-02-28 Thread Andrew C Goodall
All, ARS 7.5 patch 4 Midtier 7.5 patch 4 ITSM 7.5.01 I had a user report an issue this morning. They are unable to update a Change CRQ requested start date to 3/11/2012 2:00:00 AM On midtier web client it does not show an error and when you enter 3/11/2012 2:00:00 AM it simply

Re: ARERR 1889 received on changing date to 03/11/12 02:00

2012-02-28 Thread Andrew C Goodall
Thanks Elizabeth - I thought this was something to do with daylight savings, so it sounds like that is by design even if it was poorly implemented? If so, a more meaningful user friendly reason should have been populated to the user. Regards, Andrew Goodall Software Engineer 2 |

Re: ARERR 1889 received on changing date to 03/11/12 02:00

2012-02-28 Thread Andrew C Goodall
the hour that the time changes for the start of daylight saving time. For more information, see knowledge base article ID 5816 on the BMC Remedy Customer Support website. Fred From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Andrew C Goodall Sent

Re: Link to the request(attachment) on email notification

2012-02-24 Thread Andrew C Goodall
We added something like the following to the notification template in SYS:Notification Messages Email message body - this example is for ITSM incident assignment. a href=http://put your midtier name here/arsys/forms/put your ar server name

where do I see the xml output from a webservice call?

2012-02-24 Thread Andrew C Goodall
I trying to research an issue with filter action web service call. I do not see the xml output in the filter log. Does anybody know if and how you can view the xml output of what is being sent in the web service call? Regards, Andrew Goodall Software Engineer 2 | Development Services

Re: where do I see the xml output from a webservice call?

2012-02-24 Thread Andrew C Goodall
the input values in that log file. If it is for a remedy published webservice then midtier logs will show the actual xml coming into remedy. On Friday, February 24, 2012 1:10:27 PM UTC-6, Andrew C Goodall wrote: ** I trying to research an issue with filter action web service call. I do not see

Re: where do I see the xml output from a webservice call?

2012-02-24 Thread Andrew C Goodall
output from a webservice call? Yes ... You need to change the level value from warn to either debug or info and restart the java plugin process Fred From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Andrew C Goodall Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012

Re: Not Matching Lengths

2012-02-23 Thread Andrew C Goodall
I ran the query and returned 878 rows. I'm not too concerned with the ones where the RemedyMaxLength is smaller than the DBMaxlength, but I am concerned about the ones where the DBMaxlength is less than the RemedyMaxLength - it's those that could cause fatal errors / crashes. I modified your

Re: 7.6.04 SP2 Becon's to address... to terracotta

2012-02-14 Thread Andrew C Goodall
My guess is that it's something to do with ehcache. Regards, Andrew Goodall Software Engineer 2 | Development Services | jcpenney . www.jcp.com http://www.jcp.com/ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On

Re: Server 'Alive' check

2012-02-10 Thread Andrew C Goodall
If you don't have access to enterprise level monitoring tools (such as patrol, MOM, splunk, etc...) and if this is windows OS you could use the arapi.net and vbscript on the arserver to send an email notification of error on login or vice versa of healthy login. If you execute remotely, then this

Re: Server 'Alive' check

2012-02-10 Thread Andrew C Goodall
undertaking. I'm trying to make my monitoring smarter. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Andrew C Goodall Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 8:16 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Server 'Alive' check ** If you don't have

Re: Server 'Alive' check

2012-02-10 Thread Andrew C Goodall
It blows me away how much manual effort we the customer have to go through to check that the product we purchased is working as intended / designed!!! Firstly, the onus should be on BMC to provide this capability for its own product, secondly if the product was stable and robust perhaps we

Re: SRM and Approval activity log issue

2012-02-09 Thread Andrew C Goodall
That's good to here! We need that. Regards, Andrew Goodall Software Engineer 2 | Development Services | jcpenney . www.jcp.com http://www.jcp.com/ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Chou,

Re: Abydos - experiences

2012-02-08 Thread Andrew C Goodall
We own and use Abydos Analyzer too. It's one of those tools which you might not use everyday, but when you do it saves you a ton of time. It's easy to work with and use, and very quick and powerful. I would definitely recommend it. Love that it uses standard Microsoft products for the output

Re: 7.6.04 SP3 - SW00391781

2012-02-07 Thread Andrew C Goodall
The aliens will be using NoSQL Big data from a non relational planet in a distant galaxy far far away. BMC Houston you have a problem! Regards, Andrew Goodall Software Engineer 2 | Development Services | jcpenney . www.jcp.com http://www.jcp.com/

Numera Acquisition

2012-01-31 Thread Andrew C Goodall
Interesting acquisition - there sure is a lot of overlap with Remedy. I wonder how this will play out? http://www.numarasoftware.com http://www.numarasoftware.com/ GaryHoagland https://twitter.com/#!/GaryHoagland GaryHoagland Fear Uncertainty and Doubt being spread about the BMC

Re: ITSM 7.5: Reporting Off form HPD:Help Desk Assignment Log

2012-01-26 Thread Andrew C Goodall
What I know. 1. In ITSM 7.5 there is a defect - for which there is a hotfix the assignment record does NOT update under certain conditions when user takes the incident to resolved or closed. 2. The assignment record is not added until the completion of the assignment, i.e. when assignment

best way to benchmark performance of ITSM functionality

2012-01-19 Thread Andrew C Goodall
We're planning an upgrade to 7.6.04 from 7.5 - the main driver is for improved client performance, namely web client since in 7.6.04 that is all the client can use. Can anyone provide any insight on what the best tools / approaches would be for measuring client web performance of ITSM

Re: best way to benchmark performance of ITSM functionality

2012-01-19 Thread Andrew C Goodall
, at 4:18 PM, Andrew C Goodall ago...@jcpenney.com wrote: ** We're planning an upgrade to 7.6.04 from 7.5 - the main driver is for improved client performance, namely web client since in 7.6.04 that is all the client can use. Can anyone provide any insight on what

32bit Vs.64bit JVM performance

2012-01-17 Thread Andrew C Goodall
I'm soliciting feedback regarding experience observed in the field regarding migrating from 32bit JVM to 64bit processes - is it worth it? So we'll be upgrading from 7.5 32bit to 7.6.04 64bit (on Windows 2008), our major objective is to drastically improve client performance. Due to BMC

Re: 32bit Vs.64bit JVM performance

2012-01-17 Thread Andrew C Goodall
://wikis.oracle.com/display/HotSpotInternals/CompressedOops Axton Grams On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Andrew C Goodall ago...@jcpenney.com wrote: ** I'm soliciting feedback regarding experience observed in the field regarding migrating from 32bit JVM to 64bit processes - is it worth it? So we'll

Re: How to link a Case ID on a report to open the report

2012-01-12 Thread Andrew C Goodall
This is for an ITSM incident. Here is an example we use in an SSRS report navigation: = http://midtier/arsys/forms/arserver/HPD%3AHelp+Desk/Best+Practice+V iew/?qual='100161'=%22 Fields!Incident_Number.Value %22 You can use the same approach and just change syntax to what you need.

Re: License Review form in server groups -Current Users how to read

2012-01-12 Thread Andrew C Goodall
You can't very easily - there is a bug in BMCs license tracking across an AR server group environment - and at least I can't be bothered to spend the time with support to try and get them to fix it. Bascially, the way I do it is to capture snapshot of active users during busiest part of online

Re: Crystal Reports Options

2012-01-10 Thread Andrew C Goodall
We use Microsoft SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services) - you develop reports in MS Visual Studio using the business intelligence module (a component of MS SQL Management studio) and publish to the SSRS web site for users to subscribe and export data into various formats. This was the cheapest

Re: Remedy JMS

2012-01-10 Thread Andrew C Goodall
We use Tibco WS over Http to communicate with Remedy, no need at this point for us to look at Tibco EMS (JMS). Regards, Andrew Goodall Software Engineer 2 | Development Services | jcpenney . www.jcp.com -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: Bulk addition to group list on user form

2012-01-10 Thread Andrew C Goodall
Use the ITSM data management tool - data load option. Edit import spreadsheet for people.xls Tab 18 CTM-PeoplePermissionGroups Regards, Andrew Goodall Software Engineer 2 | Development Services | jcpenney . www.jcp.com -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion

Re: Purge Script

2011-12-12 Thread Andrew C Goodall
Best to do from Archive form properties of desired forms, e.g. purging data using form property archiving from HPD_Help_Desk will also clean up related associated data due to built in filter workflow on DELETE. Do you means archive - i.e. to another form or db, or purge the old data? Attached

Re: Incident Management - building reports

2011-12-09 Thread Andrew C Goodall
We use Microsoft SQL Reporting Services (SSRS) for our analytical needs; obviously we have a SQL Server DB. We added a SQL snapshot for reporting purposes of the live ARSystem DB to make sure we were only hitting the live db for reporting purposes when absolutely necessary, e.g. when needing to

Re: capture midtier qualification to be used to create a URL with mode=searchqual=?

2011-12-09 Thread Andrew C Goodall
Not sure if this helps. Examples below - these are for SSRS report links but you can use the same approach with some changes to the syntax and criteria for the qual line reference. I'm sure you could use same approach on a field and use workflow to auto build the qual line. FYI - important to

Re: Approval Engine: Threads

2011-12-07 Thread Andrew C Goodall
FYI - also think about changing port from default setting which is same as the Plugin-Loopback-RPC-Socket -- THIS WAS FROM BMC SUPPORT ON AN ISSUE WE HAD WITH SLOW APPROVAL PROCESS For the error Dispatch : Operation cancelled due to error (ARAPPERR 4502) in the arerr.log file

ARS + ITSM 7.7

2011-12-06 Thread Andrew C Goodall
David / Matt / Doug, Can either of you provide any details on the release plan for ARS + ITSM 7.7 and an overview of major new features? I was hoping someone could tell me as we are looking to upgrade to 7.6.04 Q1 2012 - but if there are any compelling new features / enhancements delivered

Re: Change phases

2011-12-05 Thread Andrew C Goodall
I was confused to what exactly you are referring to, e.g. approval process, progress bar, etc... If you're referring to the approval process: Application Admin Console -- Custom Configuration -- Foundation -- Advanced Options -- Approval Process Configuration -- Search existing mappings

Re: how to configure some users to use a private port in the web version

2011-12-02 Thread Andrew C Goodall
I think their confusing pools with users. I believe 80 -100 pools is recommended. Regards, Andrew Goodall Software Engineer 2 | Development Services | jcpenney . www.jcp.com http://www.jcp.com/ | 972.431.1518 From: Action Request System discussion

Re: Fast List Threads [I]

2011-11-28 Thread Andrew C Goodall
I just found the download for the AR Log Analyzer AR Log Analyzer - https://communities.bmc.com/communities/docs/DOC-2973 Regards, Andrew Goodall Software Engineer 2 | Development Services | jcpenney . www.jcp.com http://www.jcp.com/ From:

Re: Importing data from server upgrade 7.6.3 to 7.6.4

2011-11-18 Thread Andrew C Goodall
This may help if it's ITSM foundation data... https://communities.bmc.com/communities/docs/DOC-14224 Regards, Andrew Goodall Software Engineer 2 | Development Services | jcpenney . www.jcp.com -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: Licensing

2011-11-18 Thread Andrew C Goodall
Cecil is right - you just need to enter the type = AR Server, Number of Licenses = 1, and the Key. Regards, Andrew Goodall Software Engineer 2 | Development Services | jcpenney . www.jcp.com http://www.jcp.com/ | 972.431.1518 From: Action Request

any experience or suggestions regarding improving performance of web client experience

2011-11-18 Thread Andrew C Goodall
ARS 7.5 patch 4 = Windows 2003 / Quad Quad-Core 2.3 Ghz / 8 GB Ram (x2 active forward facing to user community on load balancer) Midtier 7.5 patch 4 = Windows 2003 / Quad Quad-Core 2.3 Ghz / 8 GB Ram (x2 active forward facing to user community on load balancer) running Tomcat to IIS pass

Re: Remedy Web-service Timezone question for date/timestamp fields

2011-11-16 Thread Andrew C Goodall
Comes from the timezone of the ARS server I believe that executes the web service filter action. e.g. try changing your server timezone and see if it changes. Regards, Andrew Goodall Software Engineer 2 | Development Services | jcpenney . www.jcp.com http://www.jcp.com/

Re: Remedy Web-service Timezone question for date/timestamp fields

2011-11-16 Thread Andrew C Goodall
, which means I should expect -8 and not -7 in SOAP envelope from Nov 6 onwards. My default user for midtier is set to America/Los_Angeles timezone. My dilemma is why is it sending me -7 instead of -8. Thanks Chintan. From: Andrew C Goodall ago

Re: Remedy Web-service Timezone question for date/timestamp fields

2011-11-16 Thread Andrew C Goodall
6 onwards. My default user for midtier is set to America/Los_Angeles timezone. My dilemma is why is it sending me -7 instead of -8. Thanks Chintan. From: Andrew C Goodall ago...@jcpenney.com To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Wednesday, November 16

Re: BMC's Future on the horizon.. IMHO

2011-11-11 Thread Andrew C Goodall
Doug - BMC might want to consider getting on the Microsoft Development BETA team - to test their products before GA :-) A software company that uses another software company's interfaces should not be waiting to GA - that is not an excuse, they should have proactive QA/QC processes up front in

Re: BMC's Future on the horizon.. IMHO

2011-11-09 Thread Andrew C Goodall
Yeah! Long live HTML5 Regards, Andrew Goodall Software Engineer 2 | Development Services | jcpenney . www.jcp.com http://www.jcp.com/ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of patrick zandi Sent:

Re: Remedy Server Group issues

2011-11-04 Thread Andrew C Goodall
Yeah make sure you don't have dev-cache mode switched on. Our Delay-Recache-Time: 300 You also may want to try adding: Select-Query-Hint: NOLOCK Regards, Andrew Goodall Software Engineer 2 | Development Services | jcpenney . www.jcp.com -Original Message- From: Action Request

Re: FW: Remedy Server Group issues

2011-11-04 Thread Andrew C Goodall
quarterly so the downtime is not excessive. HTH Jim -Original Message- From: Andrew C Goodall [mailto:ago...@jcpenney.com] Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 1:16 PM Subject: Re: Remedy Server Group issues Yeah make sure you don't have dev-cache mode switched on. Our Delay-Recache-Time: 300

Re: Interfacing with HP Asset Management.

2011-10-28 Thread Andrew C Goodall
We haven't yet - but may be embarking on that next year to pull data into CMDB. There are some articles on BMC communities concerning open source 1 way connectors, see: https://communities.bmc.com/communities/docs/DOC-1741 https://communities.bmc.com/communities/docs/DOC-1742 you

Re: Interfacing with HP Asset Management.

2011-10-28 Thread Andrew C Goodall
You could also check out this company's services: Build a Multisource CMDB with HP's Universal CMDB Atrium http://www.linium.com/practices/optimize/events/webinarbuildamultisource hpuniversalcmdbwithatrium Regards, Andrew Goodall Software Engineer 2 | Development Services |

anyone interested in yammer?

2011-10-27 Thread Andrew C Goodall
So www.yammer.com http://www.yammer.com/ is a free Facebook esq. medium in which we could build an ARSList group and other local RUG groups? Regards, Andrew Goodall Software Engineer 2 | Development Services | jcpenney . www.jcp.com http://www.jcp.com/ font

Re: Identifying forms

2011-10-19 Thread Andrew C Goodall
Turn on client side active link logging and then search for the word schema Regards, Andrew Goodall Software Engineer 2 | Development Services | jcpenney . www.jcp.com -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of

Re: SMS sending multiple messages

2011-10-05 Thread Andrew C Goodall
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS Yes - SMS / Text is limited in lneth like twitter - in fact twitter took it from text message limit. So cell phone companies allow greater length by breaking them up into multiple messages. Your users will love that, especially if they have overages on going over

where did my RFE go - down a rabbit hole I think?

2011-09-29 Thread Andrew C Goodall
Matt (aka Mr. Community Ambassador), Is there any chance you'll be reviewing, updating, and improving the current RFE process? I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels the current process is a complete waste of time and energy. I'm so tired of submitting RFEs for processes BMC support

Re: Where are the WWRUG11 document

2011-09-29 Thread Andrew C Goodall
Is that a BSc or a BA :) Regards, Andrew Goodall Software Engineer 2 | Development Services | jcpenney . www.jcp.com -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Kemes, Lisa Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 4:13

Re: Old Question - About SVT Grouping and Multiple SVT for INC's Assigned Group

2011-09-27 Thread Andrew C Goodall
It depends on how many groups you want to measure. If only a handful then sure, you'll need to add an SLA measurement for each support group. If many, then I would not measure this in an SLA in SLM but rather use the incident assignment logging and produce reports based on those metrics.

Re: Assignment route from SRM

2011-09-27 Thread Andrew C Goodall
See Assignment Configuration form (CFG:Assignment) - its on the Application Admin Console for ITSM - Step 7 Assignment - for assignment rules Also see Change Configuration Rules under Application Admin Console / Advanced / Change Management / Advanced Options / Rules Regards, Andrew

Re: Gmail and AREmail Engine

2011-09-27 Thread Andrew C Goodall
I'm guessing your firewall is blocking outbound traffic to smtp servers. Regards, Andrew Goodall Software Engineer 2 | Development Services | jcpenney . www.jcp.com http://www.jcp.com/ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

refresh current record in active link

2011-09-21 Thread Andrew C Goodall
How do you refresh current record displayed in an active link? Regards, Andrew Goodall Software Engineer 2 | Development Services | jcpenney . www.jcp.com http://www.jcp.com/ font face=monospacesize=-3brThe information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which

Re: refresh current record in active link

2011-09-21 Thread Andrew C Goodall
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 2:23 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: refresh current record in active link Do a Refresh Table run process on field 1020 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Andrew C Goodall Sent: Wednesday

Re: User Tool Script Error

2011-09-21 Thread Andrew C Goodall
I think it is Adobe flash related, yes it is needed for visualization. I would update - clear %temp% cache, and retry. Regards, Andrew Goodall Software Engineer 2 | Development Services | jcpenney . www.jcp.com http://www.jcp.com/ From: Action Request

Re: User Tool Script Error

2011-09-21 Thread Andrew C Goodall
User tool uses flash, not just browser. WUT needs java and flash. Regards, Andrew Goodall Software Engineer 2 | Development Services | jcpenney . www.jcp.com http://www.jcp.com/ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

can I have a table field with a temp dataset?

2011-09-20 Thread Andrew C Goodall
I'm not sure how to put a succinct title on this...I'll try to explain I want 2 tables on a display form with add and remove buttons where I can: 1. Add item 1 from Table A to Table B, but then also remove from Table A so it does not show up as an available selection again - since

Re: can I have a table field with a temp dataset?

2011-09-20 Thread Andrew C Goodall
Developer On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Andrew C Goodall ago...@jcpenney.com wrote: ** I'm not sure how to put a succinct title on this...I'll try to explain I want 2 tables on a display form with add and remove buttons where I can: 1. Add item 1 from Table A to Table B

can time zone be set in API authentication?

2011-09-19 Thread Andrew C Goodall
So in a web service call you can set time zone: urn:AuthenticationInfo urn:userName?/urn:userName urn:password?/urn:password !--Optional:-- urn:authentication?/urn:authentication !--Optional:-- urn:locale?/urn:locale

Re: Discrepancy between date/time in table Vs. normal date/time field

2011-09-15 Thread Andrew C Goodall
. It resolved the problem rei On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 6:02 AM, Andrew C Goodall ago...@jcpenney.com wrote: ** See attached jpg - notice the difference of reported date in the table vs. the reported date in the field below the table. The date/time in the table field is being reported from

Re: Discrepancy between date/time in table Vs. normal date/time field

2011-09-15 Thread Andrew C Goodall
an hour to it??? Joe From: Andrew C Goodall mailto:ago...@jcpenney.com Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 2:02 PM Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Discrepancy between date/time in table Vs. normal date/time field ** See attached jpg

Re: Discrepancy between date/time in table Vs. normal date/time field

2011-09-15 Thread Andrew C Goodall
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 6:02 AM, Andrew C Goodall ago...@jcpenney.com wrote: ** See attached jpg - notice the difference of reported date in the table vs. the reported date in the field below the table. The date/time in the table field is being reported from the server time/zone instead

Re: Discrepancy between date/time in table Vs. normal date/time field

2011-09-15 Thread Andrew C Goodall
in the server. It resolved the problem rei On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 6:02 AM, Andrew C Goodall ago...@jcpenney.com wrote: ** See attached jpg - notice the difference of reported date in the table vs. the reported date in the field below the table. The date/time in the table field

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: Outside of Reserved Range warning?

2011-09-09 Thread Andrew C Goodall
It would be nice if BMC helped drive that effort! I like the idea of the prefix - or perhaps some other flag to denote company creator. Can someone please explain why the default 536 range is not a good choice for custom fields - thanks. Regards, Andrew Goodall Software Engineer 2 |

Re: Performance question CTM:People timing

2011-09-08 Thread Andrew C Goodall
Does anybody know if there is a similar option for SQL Server 2008? Regards, Andrew Goodall Software Engineer 2 | Development Services | jcpenney . www.jcp.com http://www.jcp.com/ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: Performance question CTM:People timing

2011-09-08 Thread Andrew C Goodall
for it.. search results however may indicate that it might have been discontinued after SQL 2005. I do not have a ready test instance to try it on.. Joe From: Andrew C Goodall mailto:ago...@jcpenney.com Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 3:12 PM Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general

Re: Reconciliation Engine Administrator

2011-09-07 Thread Andrew C Goodall
Look to see what the following roles are mapped to on your system: CMDB RE Definitions Admin CMDB RE User You need to add to your new group the group mapped to those roles. Regards, Andrew Goodall Software Engineer 2 | Development Services | jcpenney . www.jcp.com -Original

Re: Reconciliation Engine Administrator

2011-09-07 Thread Andrew C Goodall
We're on CMDB 7.5 patch 1 Looking at this further - it appears yet again BMC are unable to clearly segment roles :( I think Felix is right - you may have to provide Administrator rights - which sucks. I just did a test and even though my CMDB admin could go into modify and create - it wouldn't

Re: Installation order?

2011-09-07 Thread Andrew C Goodall
You forgot CMDB. CMDB should come after ARS. Regards, Andrew Goodall Software Engineer 2 | Development Services | jcpenney . www.jcp.com -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of anurag saxena Sent:

Re: 7.6.04 - Delayed support group notification e-mails

2011-09-02 Thread Andrew C Goodall
Yeah - we're not on 7.6.04 - but on 7.5 we increased the escalation threads from the default 2 to the max 6 (one per pool). I believe the NTE escalations uses pools 3,4,5. Also, make sure you haven't installed any longer running escalations that could be backing up the escalation emails, put any

Re: midtier 7.6.04 with ARS 7.5

2011-09-02 Thread Andrew C Goodall
- From: Andrew C Goodall ago...@jcpenney.com To: arslist arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Thu, Sep 1, 2011 8:24 pm Subject: midtier 7.6.04 with ARS 7.5 ** Has anybody upgraded to midtier 7.6.04 but kept ARS @ 7.1 or 7.5? Wondering if you did how much (if any) performance improvements in rendering were

Re: disable change flag on hidden fields

2011-09-02 Thread Andrew C Goodall
Genius - love that idea. Did you do this specifically because of the This record has been updated by another user since you retrieved it... received when attempting to approve or reject the change request? Regards, Andrew Goodall Software Engineer 2 | Development Services | jcpenney .

Re: disable change flag on hidden fields

2011-09-02 Thread Andrew C Goodall
discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Andrew C Goodall Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 5:26 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: disable change flag on hidden fields ** ITSM 7.5.01 What are some of the scenario's where you'd want to keep the disable change flag

disable change flag on hidden fields

2011-09-01 Thread Andrew C Goodall
ITSM 7.5.01 What are some of the scenario's where you'd want to keep the disable change flag = false on a hidden field? I ask because we're seeing some behavior on CHG:Infrastructure Change where users are receiving the message: This record has been updated by another user since you

Re: Remedy HA installation guide

2011-09-01 Thread Andrew C Goodall
Are you saying the normal installation guide only provides low availability ;) Regards, Andrew Goodall -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of uday kiran Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 6:31 PM To:

midtier 7.6.04 with ARS 7.5

2011-09-01 Thread Andrew C Goodall
Has anybody upgraded to midtier 7.6.04 but kept ARS @ 7.1 or 7.5? Wondering if you did how much (if any) performance improvements in rendering were gained? Regards, Andrew Goodall Software Engineer 2 | Development Services | jcpenney . www.jcp.com http://www.jcp.com/ /prefont

Re: Email Engine processing order of incoming messages

2011-08-29 Thread Andrew C Goodall
in the exact opposite I sent emails. Then we cycled the email engine and ran the tests again. The results were the same. Thanks, Mark Reahard From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Andrew C Goodall Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 7:24 PM

Re: .Net Example of getting data from a Web Service

2011-08-26 Thread Andrew C Goodall
have to set this property on every mapped field?) Lisa From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Andrew C Goodall Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 1:04 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: .Net Example of getting data from a Web

Re: Email Engine processing order of incoming messages

2011-08-26 Thread Andrew C Goodall
Is that using MAPI? I'm not sure Remedy is the cause here, e.g if using outlook the newest received email is always at the top of the display table - perhaps the solution is to change the default sort in the email client you are interfacing with? Regards, Andrew Goodall Software Engineer

Re: Row Level Security

2011-08-25 Thread Andrew C Goodall
You can use the company - when a company is created it creates a group for it. Search on the long name of the group for the company name to get the group ID. This is what will be appended to field 112 if want company row level security. Use Public if you want to open it to everyone. Regards,

change management notifications - where requestor same as implementer

2011-08-25 Thread Andrew C Goodall
Has any one added any custom workflow to prevent Requestor and Implementer notification occurring if the ID is the same for the Requestor and Implementer? A lot of our changes are IT people inputing change requests so the IT person is often the requestor and implementer, and they are getting

Re: change management notifications - where requestor same as implementer

2011-08-25 Thread Andrew C Goodall
| Development Services | jcpenney . www.jcp.com http://www.jcp.com/ From: Kevin Shaffer [mailto:kevin_l_shaf...@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 5:29 PM To: Andrew C Goodall Subject: RE: change management notifications - where requestor same

6 month contract open in Plano, Texas

2011-08-24 Thread Andrew C Goodall
If any one is interested in a 6 month contract with us at jcpenney in Plano,Texas then send me your resume... ARS Admin and developer experience 3+ years, certification a plus ITSM 7.5 and above experience required CMDB implementation, administration required - , integration experience with

Re: reload of web service wipes out field mappings!

2011-08-22 Thread Andrew C Goodall
. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Andrew C Goodall Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 1:11 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: reload of web service wipes out field mappings! ** Any one else finding it really annoying that the reload

Re: Performance question CTM:People timing

2011-08-22 Thread Andrew C Goodall
Where are you counting from? - query on CTM_People involves multiple queries not just one, so are you just counting time from the main query to the next or the total time to process all queries for that operation? Ours 329ms (from main to last query in operation) - 357,000+ total records - SQL

reload of web service wipes out field mappings!

2011-08-21 Thread Andrew C Goodall
Any one else finding it really annoying that the reload of a web service wipes out all your field mappings and you have to remap everything instead of just the items that changed? Regards, Andrew Goodall Software Engineer 2 | Development Services | jcpenney . www.jcp.com

preload - leaving it on vs. switching off after pre-load is complete

2011-08-19 Thread Andrew C Goodall
Just noticed this in the 7.6 performance tuning guide - Page 27 reads: Running preload Considering all of the services, the following is the optimal procedure to run preload once: 1. In the Mid Tier Configuration Tool, turn on Enable Cache Persistence in the Mid Tier Configuration Tool.

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