Re: Age old debate - categorizations

2011-09-22 Thread Rick Cook
I would suggest that you read my white paper on the subject. It is available on the BMCDN. Rick On Sep 22, 2011 8:31 AM, Brian Pancia panc...@finityit.com wrote: This topic comes up every once and awhile on arslist. I talked to a few people at WWRUG that have really struggled with this. I

Re: Age old debate - categorizations

2011-09-22 Thread Rick Cook
The I want you to Opcat1 the Opcat1 on my Opcat3 method is actually from my white paper. There are some frills and dressings therein, though. Rick On Sep 22, 2011 9:05 AM, Martinez, Marcelo A marc...@cpchem.com wrote: Rick, I am interested in reading your whitepaper. I will go look

Re: User Tool and win7

2011-09-16 Thread Rick Cook
(if at all), and forms crash it. Just go to the browser and be done with it, except when you have to use the UT. Rick On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Vaibhav Singhal vaibhavsing...@hcl.comwrote: ** Hi List, As far as I know, User Tool is not supported on Win7. But, if UT installation directory

Re: For those who know Mike McCourt

2011-09-16 Thread Rick Cook
! Rick On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Tami Palacky tpala...@gmail.com wrote: glad to hear it! i was going to ask you this am if there was an update. On Sep 14, 12:15 pm, Rick Cook remedyr...@gmail.com wrote: Good news! Mike is recovering from surgery. He still has a road to full recovery

Re: License_Cache

2011-09-15 Thread Rick Cook
Two questions, Dave. 1) What version/platform? 2) Have you tried using the Mid-tier for this? On 7.6.04, we are finding differences in functionality between the two interfaces that were probably not intentional. Rick On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:15 AM, David Abry davidla...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Mingle360: MingleStick Registration

2011-09-15 Thread Rick Cook
I was able to create a profile a few days ago myself. My question is what made the Mingle people think that a Facebook integration was a higher priority than a LinkedIn one, since this is primarily a business, not social, device. My FB account is mostly for personal contacts. My LinkedIn

Re: Change Management Installation

2011-09-14 Thread Rick Cook
Installing Atrium Core prior to ITSM is not optional. You don't have to USE or license the CMDB, but it must be in place or your installation won't work. Rick On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:01 AM, Kemes, Lisa lisa.ke...@te.com wrote: ** We ONLY want to install Change Management. I can see

Re: For those who know Mike McCourt

2011-09-14 Thread Rick Cook
Good news! Mike is recovering from surgery. He still has a road to full recovery, and will be in the hospital for another couple of weeks, but his body appears to be cooperating. Thanks to all for thoughts and prayers. Rick On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Rick Cook remedyr...@gmail.com wrote

For those who know Mike McCourt

2011-09-13 Thread Rick Cook
A few days ago, Mike suffered a sudden brain aneurism. He is in the hospital, and is scheduled to undergo surgery soon. If anyone out there has thoughts or prayers they would like to direct toward Mike and his family as they go through this, both they and his Rapid Technologies family would

Re: Mingle360: MingleStick Registration

2011-09-13 Thread Rick Cook
have any inside info that says that's how it will really work. Rick On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Nathan Aker nathan_a...@mcafee.comwrote: ** Don’t know but I got one also, was wondering where it came from. Nate.** ** ** ** *Nathan Aker* ITSM Solution Architect *McAfee, Inc

Re: Mingle360: MingleStick Registration

2011-09-13 Thread Rick Cook
, and only slightly less edible. They may be more accurate when thrown as well. Not that anyone would or should DO that (especially if they have your personal info on the murder weapon), I'm just saying... And now you know why yours truly is NOT the Director of Communication. Rick On Tue, Sep

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

2011-09-09 Thread Rick Cook
programs that could assist you with choosing the next field ID for a form. Lots of ways to skin that cat. So which system you use isn't nearly as important as using one that works for you. Rick On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Andrew C Goodall ago...@jcpenney.comwrote: It would be nice if BMC helped

Re: SRM Configuration/Setup

2011-09-07 Thread Rick Sharp
Consider a better product we use, www.kineticdata.com. Super tool and very friendly and smart support staff. Former Remedy developers creating solutions solely for Remedy! You will be happy you called them. We are customers of 3 years now. Sent via BlackBerry by ATT -Original

Re: Hcnfyfdgic

2011-08-29 Thread Rick Cook
The weird part is that I bet Lenny could still answer the question. And it's not the most unintelligible question the list has received. Rick On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Meyer, Jennifer L jennifer.me...@nc.govwrote: That 'splains lots. I've got a secure pass-thingy on my phone to keep

Re: Hcnfyfdgic

2011-08-29 Thread Rick Cook
I am also surprised that no one blamed auto-correct. Rick On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Alejandro Canon aca...@extensionsa.comwrote: ** I´ve enjoyed reading this thread… J Thanks for giving us some “Monday Humor” By the way, be careful if: **- **Your cell phone

Re: Remedy Inconsistancy

2011-08-25 Thread Rick Cook
) addressed and adequate QA done to ensure that things work at all, but it would be nice to have some tightening up of the design and architecture of the application suite. Rick On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Lyle Taylor tayl...@ldschurch.org wrote: ** I griped about this a few years back

Re: Remedy Inconsistency

2011-08-25 Thread Rick Cook
CMDB 7.6.04 form corruption issues when in a server group, but only on a Linux platform - Windows seems to do just fine. The short-term workaround: don't customize the CMDB in a server group on Linux. Support is working hard on a solution. Rick On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 9:24 AM, strauss stra

Re: change management notifications - where requestor same as implementer

2011-08-25 Thread Rick Cook
Andrew, my understanding is that to change one of the existing notifications, the easiest way is to create a new one that has the same name as an existing one. Workflow will look at your custom one and ignore the OOB one. Rick On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Andrew C Goodall ago

Re: Enable trace (SQL and Filter logs) for single user

2011-08-16 Thread Rick Cook
Yes. The User tool allows that, though you have to be logged in as a user with the permissions to run those. Rick On Aug 16, 2011 9:08 PM, Mikhail Kovrizhnykh mkovrizhn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Is it possible to enable SQL and Filter logs for single user? ARS 7.1. Kind regards, Mikhail

Re: Improving the performance of the Midtier 7.6, SP1

2011-08-15 Thread Rick Cook
BMC has a mid-tier performance White Paper that covers just what you are looking for. It is available on their web site. Rick On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 3:42 AM, Tristan Roppel tristan.rop...@t-online.dewrote: Midtier 7.6 SP1 Apache Tomcat 5.5 Hi folks, can anybody give me hints in order

Re: WWRUG11: Discounts end on August 15th, content being filled in, We have History and the Future

2011-08-09 Thread Rick Cook
Just signed up today. Will be staying at nearby Hyatt, because I can use points to pay for the room. Thank you for the discount code for the conference! Rick On Aug 7, 2011 2:00 PM, Daniel Bloom danielbl...@rogers.com wrote: Hi Everyone, just a reminder that we are only 6 weeks out from

Re: ARERROR.LOG entries

2011-08-08 Thread Rick Cook
time I saw something like that. Rick On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 7:04 AM, strauss stra...@unt.edu wrote: Our ITSM 7.6.04.01 system is now live, and of course it immediately started spitting an error we have never seen in testing: Sun Aug 07 18:44:06 2011 : Action Request System(R) Server x64 Version

Re: ARERROR.LOG entries

2011-08-08 Thread Rick Cook
- CTM:PPL:ChkUnrestrictedAccess-Fail2_596 - CTM:PPL:ChkUnrestrictedAccess-Fail_596 - CTM:PPL:LOGINCannotSubmitLogin_151_E - CTM:PPL:LICENSECannotSetCreate_151_E - CTM:PPL:VerifyPasswordAccess_151_E Rick On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 7:20 AM, strauss stra...@unt.edu wrote

Re: ARERROR.LOG entries

2011-08-08 Thread Rick Cook
of the makings of one of those fixes that gets accidentally left out of a subsequent patch/SP/hotfix, so keep your eyes and ears open for errors like this even if you think you are current. Rick On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 9:41 AM, strauss stra...@unt.edu wrote: ** The culprit

Re: Integrating with CTM:People vs. BMC_People

2011-08-02 Thread Rick Cook
the benefit of allowing customers who use a CMDB apart from ITSM the ability to easily do so without giving up the ability to track people/CI relationships. Seems a sound strategy to me. Thoughts? Rick On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 12:38 PM, strauss stra...@unt.edu wrote: ** Does this filter pick

Re: Atrium 7.6.04 SP1

2011-07-29 Thread Rick Cook
3800810. Rick On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Brett Azzopardi brett.azzopa...@planwell.net wrote: ATTN: Rick Cook Hi Rick, I am having issues with BMC support associating my issue to the similar if not replicated problem that you had. Can I please ask for the INC number you have logged

Re: ARX File Reader Utility

2011-07-29 Thread Rick Cook
To track the last time the Cubs won a World Series. Rick On Jul 29, 2011 9:12 AM, John Sundberg john.sundb...@kineticdata.com wrote: Question -- has ANYBODY -- EVER -- used any date in BC? And if so -- why? -John On Jul 29, 2011, at 11:50 AM, Kirill Eitvid wrote: ** John, as far I

Re: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space.

2011-07-26 Thread Rick Cook
Did you also put the other settings in the performance document in place? Rick On Jul 26, 2011 11:53 AM, Michele Mizell mmi...@jcpenney.com wrote: When I bump the max setting up to 1.5 GB the tomcat service doesn't startup. From: Action Request System

Re: Atrium 7.6.04 SP1

2011-07-26 Thread Rick Cook
In one of the installation XML files there is a setting that needs to be reset. BMC should know about it, because they have been working the same issue with us. Rick On Jul 26, 2011 6:28 PM, Brett Azzopardi brett.azzopa...@planwell.net wrote: Hi all, I am having some serious trouble

Re: Atrium 7.6.04 SP1

2011-07-26 Thread Rick Cook
It was Red hat 6. Not sure of the exact version. Rick On Jul 26, 2011 7:28 PM, Brett Azzopardi brett.azzopa...@planwell.net wrote: Sorry Rick, One last question, was it due to the Environment you were installed it on? Did you also use RHEL v6.1? Kind regards, Brett Azzopardi (02)6265

Re: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space.

2011-07-25 Thread Rick Cook
You can bump your max setting up to 1.5 gb. That should help. Rick On Jul 25, 2011 8:32 AM, Michele Mizell mmi...@jcpenney.com wrote: All, We are intermittently receiving java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space in our midtier logs. We have 2 Load Balanced servers which are running

Re: Developer Studio Documentation

2011-07-25 Thread Rick Cook
On its way to you under separate cover. Rick On Jul 25, 2011 3:28 PM, Sanford, Claire claire.sanf...@memorialhermann.org wrote: Does anyone have a copy of BMC Remedy Action Request System 7.6.04: Introduction to Application Development with BMC Remedy Developer Studio I can't find

Re: Ticket data content issues (Healthcare Industry)

2011-07-22 Thread Rick Cook
, and password protect the fields. Lots of ways to skin that cat. Rick On Jul 22, 2011 9:09 AM, Shane Buchholz sha...@samhealth.org wrote: I have had a request from our security officer to find out if there are any specific security concerns we should be aware of in relation to processing Incident tickets

Re: Migration in reverse

2011-07-20 Thread Rick Cook
Well, you should start with the 64-bit Java. BMC states that it is 40-45% slower than the 32-bit Java. Rick On Jul 20, 2011 8:22 AM, Larry Barnes larry.bar...@thecreek.com wrote: I have a development server running ITSM 7.6.04 on a VM with 8 gig of ram and is running SQL 2008 on a separate

Re: ITSM ERD

2011-07-13 Thread Rick Cook
dog. Rick On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 7:35 AM, Axton axton.gr...@gmail.com wrote: ** Generating an ERD for Remedy applications is going to be problematic. ERDs make some assumptions that don't necessarily apply to Remedy applications: - Data normalization (apps that operate on a normalized data

Re: BMC Software Acquires Aeroprise

2011-07-07 Thread Rick Cook
...and one that took a lot longer than I thought it would. They were BMC in all but name for the past few years anyway. Made perfect sense to tie the knot, and I wish the happy couple years of success! Rick On Jul 7, 2011 9:39 AM, arslist arsl...@danielbloom.ca wrote: I'm surprised it isn't

Re: Support Company Access Configuration - Infinite loop!

2011-07-06 Thread Rick Cook
Like I always say, you can't spell BMC without QA. Oh, wait, I guess you can Rick On Jul 6, 2011 7:08 AM, Logan, Kelly kelly.lo...@proquest.com wrote: Hi Guillaume, I agree that code review would be great, particularly to maintain coding practices (like using guides instead of Goto loops

Change 7.6, Defined Search for task not working

2011-06-30 Thread Rick Phillips
Hi, ARS 7.5 p6 ITSM 7.6 On the change console, the defined search for all closed tasks shows no records in the table field. Users who are members of a group with thousands of closed tasks see none in the console. Has anyone seen this before? tia, Rick

Re: Active Links Not Loading in Dev Studio

2011-06-30 Thread Rick Cook
We saw something like this when there was a mismatch between Remedy and Oracle over whether the DB was configured to be Unicode. Might check that. Rick On Jun 30, 2011 7:48 AM, rajat sharma rajatcome...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Active links are not getting loaded in the deveoper studio

Re: Remedy User Tool has 20 second delay after a period of inactivity 40 minutes

2011-06-29 Thread Rick Cook
Does the user have any floating licenses attached to it? And if so, what is your floating license timeout? Rick On Jun 22, 2011 3:58 PM, remedymarv marvin.he...@gmail.com wrote: ARS Prod 7.5 gives a pause/delay after 40 min of inactivity in the user too Hi, first post! I recently inherited

Re: ARS 7.6.0.4 Midtier and ARS 7.1 Server

2011-06-29 Thread Rick Cook
Jeff, are you sure you need the extra heap space the 64 bit Java will give you? BMC states that the 32 bit jvm is about 45% faster than the 64 bit. Your choice, just want to be sure you see the cost from both sides. Rick On Jun 29, 2011 8:29 AM, Wilson, Jeffrey M jmwil...@directv.com wrote: Hi

Re: ARS 7.6.0.4 Midtier and ARS 7.1 Server

2011-06-29 Thread Rick Cook
What size heap were you using before? Rick On Jun 29, 2011 8:41 AM, Wilson, Jeffrey M jmwil...@directv.com wrote: Unfortunately, we need the extra heap space for some things that we are doing within our custom data visualization apps. We started getting outofmemory errors on our 7.1 midtiers

Re: ARS 7.6.0.4 Midtier and ARS 7.1 Server

2011-06-29 Thread Rick Cook
Sure, Jiri. It is in BMC's own documentation, a white paper called Performance Tuning for BSM. You can find it in the AR System 7.6 documentation. Rick On Jun 29, 2011 9:15 AM, Jiri Pospisil jiri.pospi...@lchclearnet.com wrote: Rick, Could you share the source of this information? I am

Re: WWRUG 11 - and Kinetic Calendar fun

2011-06-29 Thread Rick Cook
Yeah. The project was not extended, due to a paperwork snafu. I am working with Rapid right now, helping out the folks at Union Pacific in Omaha. Rick On Jun 29, 2011 10:10 AM, John Sundberg john.sundb...@kineticdata.com wrote: 3 weeks has passed - I assume impossible with BMC Calendar

Re: arserver.exe is consuming 100% cpu - possible DB corruption? (Long Post)

2011-06-28 Thread Rick Cook
We saw on ESX 3.5 that adding CPUs actually slowed performance, due to a bug in how the processors were accessed. Dropping to 1 or 2 helped a lot, as did upgrading to v4. Rick On Jun 28, 2011 5:33 AM, Reiser, John J john.j.rei...@lmco.com wrote: Mark, I've been working with BMC Support since

Re: arserver.exe is consuming 100% cpu - possible DB corruption? (Long Post)

2011-06-28 Thread Rick Cook
There is also a hotfix for 7.1 involving some embedded spaces in Filter Run If quals that was causing similar problems. Wouldn't put it past the devs to reintroduce a problem that was fixed in a previous version. In fact, I just fixed one of those yesterday. Rick On Jun 28, 2011 7:46 AM

Re: arserver.exe is consuming 100% cpu - possible DB corruption? (Long Post)

2011-06-27 Thread Rick Cook
2 questions: How many CPUs are allocated to the VM? What version of VM software are you using? Rick On Jun 27, 2011 2:30 PM, Reiser, John J john.j.rei...@lmco.com wrote: Hello Listers, ARS 7.6.03 MS 2003 Enterprise MS SQL 2005 (remote) Total home grown system. No OOTB modules. I have

Re: changing the next Field ID -- team wants to know

2011-06-21 Thread Rick Cook
Just build a custom form that looks at $USER$ and assigns the nextId from the form with a prefix set by the workflow. Rick On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 9:17 AM, patrick zandi remedy...@gmail.com wrote: ** I have some Team Members who want to set Field ID;s -- unique for them.. --- 3 Virtuals

Re: Urgent Contract opening in New York, NY

2011-06-10 Thread Rick Cook
David, I have that experience, along with CM 7.1 and 7.5. What rate are you paying for 1099, and does that include expenses? Rick Cook On Jun 10, 2011 10:33 AM, Frankfater, David dfrankfa...@columnit.com wrote: We have an immediate 6 to 8 week contract in the city for someone who has ARS 6.3

Re: Urgent Contract opening in New York, NY

2011-06-10 Thread Rick Cook
Darn it! Didn't mean to respond to the list! Sorry about that. Rick On Jun 10, 2011 10:54 AM, Rick Cook remedyr...@gmail.com wrote: David, I have that experience, along with CM 7.1 and 7.5. What rate are you paying for 1099, and does that include expenses? Rick Cook On Jun 10, 2011 10:33

Re: New Product Catalog Data Import - Disappointed!

2011-06-08 Thread Rick Cook
BMC does have a QA department, don't they? Rick On Jun 8, 2011 6:09 AM, Peter Romain p.romain.arsl...@parsolutions.co.uk wrote: Hi, BMC just released new Product Catalog data based on ADDM discovery data. I was hoping to use this data immediately as we need to reconcile ADDM data with other

Re: Looooooooooong update times on ARSCHEMA

2011-06-08 Thread Rick Cook
How would that affect a form that isn't getting new inserts more than occasionally? The nextId setting only affects inserts. Rick On Jun 8, 2011 10:31 AM, Guillaume Rheault guilla...@dcshq.com wrote: Hi Alkan, Have you set the Next Request ID Block Size to 10 or 20 (or even 100

Re: Looooooooooong update times on ARSCHEMA

2011-06-08 Thread Rick Cook
the potential for performance improvements. Rick On Jun 8, 2011 12:13 PM, Guillaume Rheault guilla...@dcshq.com wrote: Well, contention on the ARSCHEMA table affects all tables related to Remedy forms, since as you know the ARSCHEMA table stores the nextId for any Remedy form, and this table

Re: Looooooooooong update times on ARSCHEMA

2011-06-08 Thread Rick Cook
, my research showed using any number greater than zero (or one) outside of the parameters I outlined actually DIMINISHED performance. Rick On Jun 8, 2011 12:35 PM, Guillaume Rheault guilla...@dcshq.com wrote

Re: WWRUG 11 - and Kinetic Calendar fun

2011-06-08 Thread Rick Cook
Who on earth would want to set this up to be seen in BMC's antiquitated calendar? Rick On Jun 8, 2011 1:49 PM, arslist arsl...@danielbloom.ca wrote: John, I have to add the following to your post, and the calendar functionality does look interesting .. Disclaimer: The schedule presented

Re: ITSM change management approver func role risk

2011-05-31 Thread Rick Cook
Andrew, it might be easier to enforce that with process rather than software. Make it a basic rule that one cannot approve one's own RFCs. The CAB can enforce it. Rick On May 31, 2011 10:11 AM, Andrew C Goodall ago...@jcpenney.com wrote: All, ITSM 7.5.01 The first step in our

Re: Asset Management. Cannot access to records if I am not a Remedy Administrator

2011-05-30 Thread Rick Cook
It sounds like your system isn't recognizing licenses. I would look at it from that angle. Rick On May 30, 2011 10:01 AM, Sergio Tomillero stomill...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Since some days ago I am having an strange error which I do not find a solution. I log into Remedy and I clic on Asset

Re: OVERVIEW CONSOLE BLANK

2011-05-25 Thread Rick Cook
Does the client have Flash installed? Rick On May 25, 2011 5:07 AM, Patel, Fazila fazila.pa...@siemens.com wrote: I am having a strange problem on one of the User's PC. When opening the overview console, it is blank. It does not bring up anything. I have deleted all arf arv files from

Re: OVERVIEW CONSOLE BLANK

2011-05-25 Thread Rick Cook
Still need java and flash, even for the client. Rick On May 25, 2011 5:45 AM, Patel, Fazila fazila.pa...@siemens.com wrote: The User is not logging on via the Web. Kind Regards, Fazila Patel Remedy Administrator Siemens IT Solutions and Services (Pty) Ltd Infrastructure Operations

Re: anyone know how to add custom approval phases

2011-05-24 Thread Rick Cook
We use that feature to create phase names that match the process names used by the CAB. Makes administering the phases much easier without having to refer to a translation table for different terms defining the same thing. Rick On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Andrew C Goodall ago

Re: anyone know how to add custom approval phases

2011-05-24 Thread Rick Cook
Totally agree. Why build a data driven system and then not use it most of the time? Either replace the selection lists with menu data or don't. Rick On May 24, 2011 11:52 AM, Andrew C Goodall ago...@jcpenney.com wrote: Confirmed it works in 7.5.01 - pretty sweet, that's a load off my mind

Re: OT: Duke Nuken Forever

2011-05-24 Thread Rick Cook
It was supposed to release May 8. But it was delayed. Again. Rick On May 24, 2011 2:41 PM, Chowdhury, Tauf tauf.chowdh...@frx.com wrote: I know some of you fans exist out there from a previous post... so yes, Duke Nukem Forever will be released June 14 for all major consoles :) Hell has

Re: OT: Duke Nuken Forever

2011-05-24 Thread Rick Cook
In the words of the Dukester, It's time to kick ass and chew gum. And I'm all outta gum. Rick On May 24, 2011 2:56 PM, Pargeter, Christie :CO IS cparg...@lhs.org wrote: This wonderful game is brought to you by the failed Rapture instead of Hell freezing over

Re: ARSList

2011-05-23 Thread Rick Cook
Dan is rebuilding servers. Should be done in a couple of weeks. Should be some mirror sites in place, like Matt Reinfeldt's. Rick On May 23, 2011 2:50 PM, Shafqat Ayaz shafq...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi i am trying to access the arslist site but keep getting connection refused. can anyone please

Re: Friday humor

2011-05-22 Thread Rick Cook
And another person has been shown to be less wise than he thought he was. May we be wiser in the days to come. Rick On May 22, 2011 7:17 AM, pritch pri...@ptd.net wrote: Guess we're all still here. On Sat, 21 May 2011 16:29:54 +, Sanford, Claire claire.sanf...@memorialhermann.org wrote

OT:Re: Farewell Dear Friends !

2011-05-05 Thread Rick Phillips
. Please be just as kind and helpful to my successor, Rick Deloney. So Long, Dwayne Martin _attend WWRUG11 www.wwrug.com http://www.wwrug.com/ ARSlist: Where the Answers Are_ _attend WWRUG11 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: Where the Answers Are_

Re: Customization Approval Process Question

2011-05-03 Thread Rick Cook
Isn't that what the Change Management process is for? The CAB decides what is worth pursuing. Rick On May 3, 2011 6:59 AM, Sanford, Claire claire.sanf...@memorialhermann.org wrote: When you have a customer that wants a customization made, do you have a special requirements document you have

Re: Performance rating on the Change Module and why is it a mandatory field to complete a change ticket?

2011-05-03 Thread Rick Cook
Performance ratings can be used as part of the risk assessment for a Change. I question why it is required, too, but we just put a default value of 3 in and called it good for now. Rick On May 3, 2011 8:09 AM, Mike Ilmer mike.il...@tdameritrade.com wrote: Hi List, My users asking what

Re: RFE (No Plans to Implement)

2011-04-28 Thread Rick Cook
It was for some type of trigger that would function on client-side actions. Filters are just too limiting, we don't care what Doug says. ;-) Rick On Apr 28, 2011 10:18 AM, Axton axton.gr...@gmail.com wrote: Request For Enhancement On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Joe Martin D'Souza jdso

Re: Detect Attachment change

2011-04-25 Thread Rick Cook
What if you disabled all but the Add button, and made the actual attachments read only except for Submits? That would provide an audit trail of versions of the attachments. Rick On Apr 25, 2011 6:55 AM, Hunter, Eric eric.hun...@bbvacompass.com wrote: I have a request from my users to detect

Incident Owner

2011-04-25 Thread Rick Cook
I am seeing something I am not sure I believe. In IM 7.5, the Incident Owner fields appear to be pre-populating with the information from the initial Assignee. According to ITIL, this should be the Submitter at the Service Desk (assuming that isn't the End User). Am I missing something? Rick

Re: Incident Owner

2011-04-25 Thread Rick Cook
Hmmm...we are currently using an all manual process for assignment - the Assignment engine isn't configured at all. Perhaps that's part of the problem. Rick On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Danny Kellett danny.kell...@strategicworkflow.com wrote: ** This is part of the assignment rules

Re: Incident Owner

2011-04-25 Thread Rick Cook
Thanks, Danny, that's what I was missing! Appreciate the help, all! Rick On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Danny Kellett danny.kell...@strategicworkflow.com wrote: ** Hi, Its not the assignment engine. That only assigns within a group to the actual person. Depending on the version

Re: Incident Owner

2011-04-25 Thread Rick Cook
Yeah, we're going to keep it high level - one record for each ESD, and company specific, so that we don't have to change them later if we add more companies. Rick On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Danny Kellett danny.kell...@strategicworkflow.com wrote: ** No problem, glad to help. I

Re: 7.6.04 Next Request ID block size

2011-04-14 Thread Rick Cook
To minimize the number of 'get' operations for Entry IDs. Unfortunately, my own testing showed that unless you have multiple sources (i.e. NMS) creating many records at the same time, it actually slowed performance rather than improving it. Most people should just leave it set to 1. Rick On Apr

Re: 7.6.04 Next Request ID block size

2011-04-14 Thread Rick Cook
BMC engineering validated my findings. Unless you are on a very busy server with large numbers of submits against the same form, there is no performance benefit to any setting greater than 1. Rick On Apr 14, 2011 1:26 PM, remedyr...@gmail.com wrote: To minimize the number of 'get' operations

Re: 911: Modifying the Prioritization in ITSM

2011-04-04 Thread Rick Cook
What about using Escalation rules to bump this one up? Or give them the matrix and ask if they can find a way to make it work. Rick On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Kathy Morris kathymorris...@aol.comwrote: ** I saw this, but there are other priorities that will be affected if I do

AUTO: Rick CTR Trevino is out of the office (returning 04/08/2011)

2011-04-04 Thread Rick Trevino
I am out of the office until 04/08/2011. I will be taking a class until 4-8-2011 Please contact Eric Chasteen with any issues, Thanks Rick Note: This is an automated response to your message Users logged into a specific Mid-Tier server sent on 4/4/2011 8:28:30 AM. This is the only

Re: 911: Modifying the Prioritization in ITSM

2011-04-04 Thread Rick Cook
I'm not recommending anything - I am saying that is one way to get what your customers want - if you think they should have it. Rick On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Kathy Morris kathymorris...@aol.comwrote: ** Escalation rules to bump the priority up?I can set workflow to set the field

Re: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError issue

2011-04-04 Thread Rick Cook
BMC's latest mid-tier tuning WP shows that the min: 1024 max: 1536 works well with ITSM 7+. I am using those settings without issue. Rick On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Axton axton.gr...@gmail.com wrote: ** You need to increase the max heap size (Xmx). You should be able to increase

Re: Users logged into a specific Mid-Tier server

2011-04-04 Thread Rick Cook
All I can say is that we were having problems with lesser settings, and with them are not now. YMMV. Rick On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Andrew C Goodall ago...@jcpenney.comwrote: I don't necessarily disagree with that, these were the recommendations from BMC. So as a partner you may want

Re: query against the user form group list field

2011-04-03 Thread Rick Phillips
Thad, Thanks, what actually worked was: ('Group List' = ;20213;2;) OR ('Group List' = ;2;20213;) Rick On 4/1/2011 3:40 PM, Thad Esser wrote: ** Rick, You say ONLY those two groups, so that means the group list could only be one of two things: ('Group List' = 20213;2;) OR ('Group

query against the user form group list field

2011-04-01 Thread Rick Phillips
Happy Friday! I would like to search for all User form records where the group list is ONLY Service Request User and General Access. Service Request User group id = 20213 General Access group id = 2 I'm having problems with the advanced query. Can anyone help? Thanks, Rick ARS

Re: ITSM 7.5 Server getting restarted

2011-03-31 Thread Rick Cook
Check your plugin server and logs against the settings in your ar.conf file. Rick On Mar 31, 2011 6:39 AM, vikram_k vk0073...@techmahindra.com wrote: hi Gopal, I see a cyclic restart can you enable the AR logs like SQL API and Thread logs. Need to see the reason why the server is shutting

JOB: ITSM, SLM and Integrations Remedy Developers Needed

2011-03-29 Thread Rick Parry
. Knowledge of ITIL Framework and best practice processes. MINIMUM EDUCATION EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: Degree / Experience Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field. Or equivalent work experience. Take care, Rick Parry

AUTO: Rick CTR Trevino is out of the office (returning 03/21/2011)

2011-03-18 Thread Rick Trevino
I am out of the office until 03/21/2011. Please contact Eric Chasteen with any issues, Thanks Rick Note: This is an automated response to your message Java Error while trying to look at Objects sent on 3/18/2011 3:46:38 AM. This is the only notification you will receive while this person

Re: system center service manager

2011-03-09 Thread Rick Cook
this is their primary focus, not an addon. Rick On Mar 9, 2011 8:15 AM, Martinez, Marcelo A marc...@cpchem.com wrote: Has anyone taken a look at ms system center service manager and compared it to Remedy's ITSM? What did you think about it? It states it delivers a platform that adapts ITIL best practices, it has

Re: ITSM 7.6.4

2011-03-08 Thread Rick Cook
Best practices are always improving, Claire. We can choose to improve our processes with them, or not. Rick On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Sanford, Claire claire.sanf...@memorialhermann.org wrote: I don't understand why BMC is making this product so much harder for people to upgrade

Re: Migrator 7.6.04 Incredibly slow login process

2011-02-16 Thread Rick Cook
cache for any process that isn't new in 7.6.04. Rick On Feb 15, 2011 2:42 PM, strauss stra...@unt.edu wrote: I went back and re-read the release and installation notes on Migrator 7.6.04 to see if I had missed something (apparently not, although they recommend never upgrading an earlier install even

Re: release management

2011-02-16 Thread Rick Cook
Rest easy! You can use Change with or without Release. And yes, Release was introduced in 7.5, though the 7.6x versions are better and more fully supported. Rick On Feb 16, 2011 9:20 AM, Martinez, Marcelo A marc...@cpchem.com wrote: Hello Listers, I have 2 questions on release management. We

Re: Migrator 7.6.04 Incredibly slow login process

2011-02-15 Thread Rick Cook
We are also seeing evidence that frontline support is completely out if its depth when attempting to resolve product issues. We feel like we have a fighting chance once we get to backline, but not until then. We end up solving far more problems on our own than support does. Rick On Feb 15, 2011

Re: Assignment based on Hours

2011-02-08 Thread Rick Cook
You can also set up on call groups to handle issues outside normal working hours. Rick On Feb 8, 2011 11:35 AM, Martinez, Marcelo A marc...@cpchem.com wrote: What if you have 2 assignment mappings; one for each support group. Create an escalation that fires at (i.e) 5PM daily, that disables

Re: Assignment based on Hours

2011-02-08 Thread Rick Cook
When you are setting up your business time segments, you will have the option of allowing on call groups for after hours issues. Then create the group and set it as the on call group. That will handle the transition. Rick On Feb 8, 2011 2:54 PM, Pargeter, Christie :CO IS cparg...@lhs.org wrote

Re: RESOLVED: 7.6.03 dataimporttool userid validation issue (9093 error)

2011-02-03 Thread Rick Cook
Far gentler than they currently deserve. Rick On Feb 3, 2011 7:37 AM, White, Michael W (Mike) michael.wh...@verizon.com wrote: Rick, I don't want to bash support, but your point has merit. Hopefully that was gentle enough. Mike White EMail michael.wh...@verizon.commailto:michael.wh

Re: New BMC Knowledge Base

2011-02-03 Thread Rick Cook
Every bit as helpful as the old one. The interface is different, the content, while presented differently, doesn't seem to be significantly better, at least so far. Rick On Feb 3, 2011 11:12 AM, Axton axton.gr...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone tried the new BMC knowledge base? What are your first

Re: 7.6.04 Installer - long time to stop / start AR System Server Service

2011-02-02 Thread Rick Cook
if the service is back up, but what the script does to the service doesn't seem to return a value to the script that it can continue. What we have learned to do is to restart the service a time or two ourselves. Usually that - eventually - seems to wake it up and get it processing again. Rick On Wed

Re: 7.6.04 Installer - long time to stop / start AR System Server Service

2011-02-02 Thread Rick Cook
continuing, but instead, it goes dormant. Doing a manual restart - or two - of the service often gets the script working again. Rick On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Frank Caruso caruso.fr...@gmail.com wrote: ** ITSM 7.6.3 Solaris 10 64bit Oracle 11g 64bit Lots of memory and CPU. Once ITSM 7.6.3

Re: RESOLVED: 7.6.03 dataimporttool userid validation issue (9093 error)

2011-02-02 Thread Rick Cook
You got a ticket resolved with BMC Support? I am impressed! Of course, you probably did most of the heavy lifting yourself, right? Rick On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:07 AM, White, Michael W (Mike) michael.wh...@verizon.com wrote: ** LJ, I just worked a ticket w/ BMC on this to be sure

Re: Install problems Remedy AR Server 7.6.03/04

2011-02-01 Thread Rick Cook
Thanks, Misi, for giving us a way around BMC's continued issues with their installers. I'm sure many of us may end up having to use your solution. Rick On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:52 AM, Misi Mladoniczky m...@rrr.se wrote: Hi, This may be related to Sybase or Solaris... In any event

Re: Preserving customizations with overlays and custom objects

2011-02-01 Thread Rick Cook
it is that you can do anything you want. The worst thing is that you can do anything you want. Rick On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Easter, David david_eas...@bmc.com wrote: ** Overlays is the most important feature that you should never use. J Rick is correct. Overlays enforces best

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