General Question on ITSM Administration and Configuration

2009-10-26 Thread Webster, Basil
Hi All, Trust the weekend was good to you. I have a general enquiry regarding your experiences on the general configuration and admin of your systems. I am a developer and in our organization, my team have traditionally done all of this. However, since we implemented ITSM around 5 months

ADM:Timing Test please ignore

2009-10-26 Thread Daniel Bloom
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Embedded ARSystem Reports in MT 7.5

2009-10-26 Thread Frank Caruso
ARS 7.1 p5 SQL Server 2005 Windows 2003 Tomcat Upgraded from MT 7.1 to MT 7.5p3. Cannot get ARSystem reports that are embedded in active links to run. Get 301 errors about error writing to a file. I've checked the permissions on the underlying folders and they are correct. Also, active links

AIE 7.1 data conversion

2009-10-26 Thread Frex Popo
Hello everyone,   I have a table on a remote database (SQL Server 2005) whose data we are reading to a local form in Remedy. One of the columns in the remote table is of type INTEGER. The target column in the remedy form is of type character. I need to be able to convert the INTEGER data to

Re : AIE 7.1 data conversion - RESOLVED

2009-10-26 Thread Frex Popo
Thanks --- En date de : Lun 26.10.09, Frex Popo frexp...@yahoo.fr a écrit : De: Frex Popo frexp...@yahoo.fr Objet: AIE 7.1 data conversion À: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Date: Lundi 26 Octobre 2009, 14h20 Hello everyone,   I have a table on a remote database (SQL Server 2005) whose data we are

Re: Re : AIE 7.1 data conversion - RESOLVED

2009-10-26 Thread jham36
What was the solution? On Oct 26, 9:43 am, Frex Popo frexp...@yahoo.fr wrote: Thanks --- En date de : Lun 26.10.09, Frex Popo frexp...@yahoo.fr a écrit : De: Frex Popo frexp...@yahoo.fr Objet: AIE 7.1 data conversion À: arsl...@arslist.org Date: Lundi 26 Octobre 2009, 14h20 Hello

Re: Re : AIE 7.1 data conversion - RESOLVED

2009-10-26 Thread Frex Popo
Good question :) All I did was use funtion|substr  which did work but should not have worked, I mean loaded the data but I am still getting warnings, stating data type conflict which I am working on. Thanks --- En date de : Lun 26.10.09, jham36 jha...@gmail.com a écrit : De: jham36

Password for Demo Account ? Reset.

2009-10-26 Thread Raj
Hello All, By default I know there is no password for Demo, since lot of people in our team has started logging in using Demo. I tried changing it by going into user form. Now, unable to login through Demo / and the new password created in the user form. Is there a way to reset the password for

Control-M Version 6.1.03 Slow Performance

2009-10-26 Thread Ramy S. Ayoub
Dears, We are facing major performance issue in the Control-M and we don't know from where we can resolve this issue , as BMC Support was talking about DNS issue which the security admin test and there is no issues at all Database SQL 2000 O/S Wind 2000 Serv Regards, Ramy

Re: Password for Demo Account ? Reset.

2009-10-26 Thread Howard Richter
There use to be a startup string that would reset the Demo account. That is something toggle you could put at that start of the arserver. Its been a long time and in my old age I have forgotten it. Maybe some one has that string. Howard On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Raj ravi6...@gmail.com

Task Flow bugs corrected

2009-10-26 Thread Charles Baldi
All, For anyone who is using the Task Flow engine in Change Management in more than a trivial way, you may have encountered bugs that prevent a built flow from behaving as expected. We did. After several unhelpful and time-wasting discussions with BMC support, we tracked-down and fixed a handful

Re: Re : AIE 7.1 data conversion - RESOLVED

2009-10-26 Thread Sabyson Fernandes
I faced similar issues with data imports using AIE. To get around limitations of AIE, I create SQL views and perform data manipulation using SQL functions such as convert, dateadd etc. Once the view is created, simply point the AIE job to the view and perform simple field and sql column

Re: Is there a forum for BMC Service Desk Express?

2009-10-26 Thread Easter, David
There's also the area on the BMC Developer Network: http://communities.bmc.com/communities/community/bmcdn/bmc_it_service_support/bmc_it_service_management_express -David J. Easter Sr. Product Manager, Solution Strategy and Development BMC Software, Inc. The opinions, statements, and/or

Re: 7.5 or 7.6

2009-10-26 Thread Easter, David
There were some places where the alt tag was incorrect - for example on buttons for increasing or lowering weight. Those have been corrected, to the best of my knowledge, in ITSM 7.6 applications. -David J. Easter Sr. Product Manager, Solution Strategy and Development BMC Software, Inc. The

Re: 7.5 or 7.6

2009-10-26 Thread Timothy Powell
Oh, I'd dare guess those are the LEAST of the section 508 compliance issues. Tim From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Easter, David Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 11:51 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: 7.5 or 7.6 **

Re: 7.5 or 7.6

2009-10-26 Thread Easter, David
Tim, If you know of specific defects that affect the usability of AR System 7.5.00 for disabled persons, please do contact BMC Support and log those defects so they can be corrected. Significant effort has been taken by BMC in recent releases to ensure that the web client follows the

Re: Password for Demo Account ? Reset.

2009-10-26 Thread Arbot Drone
Not comfortable posting the EXACT string to the list. But the external utility used for this purpose is ARCACHE.EXE. Instructions for ARCACHE.EXE usage can be found in the ARSystem Configuring document. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On

ARS 7.5 Patch 002 crash

2009-10-26 Thread John Sundberg
Any suggestions? (I know Mid-tier (tomcat) was being restarted) Wondering -- how to interpret this. Is the ARS log saying that it crashed and the last thing it was trying to do was an appadmin Mid-tier logging in? Or -- was that it the last successful thing it did. -John Solaris: Mon

AW: Password for Demo Account ? Reset.

2009-10-26 Thread Conny Martin
you can add a new user with arcache arcache -d -Ua -e001 -n tmp_admin -lw 1 -g '1;' -s localhost this will add a user tmp_admin with an empty password. If you're on ARS version 6.3 you must ommit -s localhost HTH Kind Regards Conny Von: Action Request

Re: 7.5 or 7.6

2009-10-26 Thread Timothy Powell
Yes, I already have. The main concerns center around: The status flow bar and the significant use of images (which are not read by a screen reader and are not recognized as a tab stop). Images cannot be the only means to convey a message/result/status. Trim text which are not read by a

Re: Password for Demo Account ? Reset.

2009-10-26 Thread LJ Longwing
Howard, If you would like the exact string, I believe I have posted it to the list a couple of times in the past...you should be able to find it fairly easily via google _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Arbot Drone Sent:

Re: 7.5 or 7.6

2009-10-26 Thread Timothy Powell
And if you recall, I was part of one of those large U.S. Government Agencies efforts. Probably the biggest one you had to deal with. But we had to do some MAJOR re-work of the app we had at that time (5.5) in order to get that sign-off. The strategies we used and developed partnering with BMC were

Re: AW: Password for Demo Account ? Reset.

2009-10-26 Thread Howard Richter
Is that string for 7.x ? Sent from Howard Richter's iPhone On Oct 26, 2009, at 1:11 PM, Conny Martin conny.mar...@t-systems.com wrote: ** you can add a new user with arcache arcache -d -Ua -e001 -n tmp_admin -lw 1 -g '1;' -s localhost this will add a user tmp_admin with an empty password.

Re: Password for Demo Account ? Reset.

2009-10-26 Thread Joe DeSouza
You could also do this at DB level by resetting the password in the view user_x and the cache table user_cache. update user_x set password = null where login_name = 'Demo'; update user_cache set password = null where username = 'Demo'; commit; user_x is a view of the User table as you see in

Re: Password for Demo Account ? Reset.

2009-10-26 Thread Raj
Hi Joe, Thank you for the reply. Can I ask you one more questions, sorry but this issue has been bugging for a while. Still unable to resolve this database restoration issue. Is there a way to rest the DB password.Tried through DB tab in server settings but failed giving sql error. also when

Re: 7.5 or 7.6

2009-10-26 Thread Easter, David
Ø These were the biggest issues encountered in a 4-5 hour brief run through on 7.5 (via mid-tier) with JAWS 10. Unfortunately, JAWS 10 implements changes that are incompatible with how structures are read with JAWS 7.0.1 - which is what AR System 7.5.00 (and therefore ITSM 7.x) was coded

Re: Task Flow bugs corrected

2009-10-26 Thread Guillaume Rheault
FYI - there are more bugs in the Task Module in ITSM 7.5.1, when task phasing is in use. Here it the statement form BMC Support, when I submitted the ticket months ago: There is a hidden field associated with the TMS:Task form, State (10003019). This field must be set to Active for the task

Re: Task Flow bugs corrected

2009-10-26 Thread Guillaume Rheault
Forgot to mention... because these bugs are open in ITSM 7.6, and therefore not fixed, it is recommended customers do not use the task phasing feature either in ITSM 7.5.1 or ITSM 7.6. Hopefully ITSM 8.0 will fix, or an ITSM 7.6 patch Guillaume -Original Message- From: Guillaume

Re: Password for Demo Account ? Reset.

2009-10-26 Thread Joe DeSouza
Raj,   First of all, whats your DB? Oracle? MS-SQL? Can't really comment on why your restoration may not be working cause different databases have different types of restoration tools, that work slightly differently from each other..   Can you log into the database using the ARAdmin username and

Re: New ARSExport version

2009-10-26 Thread Guillaume Rheault
Hi Norbert, is there any reason why the version is not 1.0 ? Is it not ready for production? Thanks, Guillaume -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) on behalf of Norbert Bolmer Sent: Sat 10/24/09 8:24 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: New ARSExport

Re: 7.5 or 7.6

2009-10-26 Thread Timothy Powell
Yes, using JAWS 7.0.1 results in the field data being read. Still didn’t address the images and trim text issues. It never did. The reason we tried JAWS 10 is because JAWS 7.0.1 is off Freedom’s support matrix now. Has been for a while. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: New ARSExport version

2009-10-26 Thread Norbert Bolmer
Hi Guillaume, of course you can use it in production. The version is only an internal number. The application will get version 1.0 when the export of DSO Mapping and Pools is implemented. Thanks, Norbert Am 26.10.2009 um 19:53 schrieb Guillaume Rheault: Hi Norbert, is there any reason

Looking for ways to validate or lock down and then audit foundation data changes

2009-10-26 Thread Howard Richter
Good morning, afternoon and evening all, Here is a question posed to BMC with no response so far. As we know all of the ITSM 7 foundation data has been placed in a number of different forms with no way of placing this data some type of lock down or good audit trail (other then the last one who

Re: Task Flow bugs corrected

2009-10-26 Thread Charles Baldi
Thanks, that is good to know. Because I suspected that there were many other bugs in the task flow I did not label my post as resolved. Chuck On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Guillaume Rheault guilla...@dcshq.comwrote: ** Forgot to mention... because these bugs are open in ITSM 7.6, and

Re: Looking for ways to validate or lock down and then audit foundation data changes

2009-10-26 Thread Joe DeSouza
Howard, There is nothing currently that would let you do that within the framework of the application as it comes out of the box. Even the Audit function available with the ARS Server post version 6.3, will not really do what you want. What you require calls for customization. Since you say

Re: Looking for ways to validate or lock down and then audit foundation data changes

2009-10-26 Thread Howard Richter
Joe, Thanks just checking that I did not miss anythig. Take care, Howard On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Joe DeSouza joe_rem...@yahoo.com wrote: ** Howard, There is nothing currently that would let you do that within the framework of the application as it comes out of the box. Even

Re: New ARSExport version

2009-10-26 Thread Guillaume Rheault
Great, thanks Norbert Guillaume -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) on behalf of Norbert Bolmer Sent: Mon 10/26/09 3:47 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: New ARSExport version Hi Guillaume, of course you can use it in production. The version

Looking for a Remedy Business Analyst in Oregon..............

2009-10-26 Thread Krupp, Nancy
QUESTION: What's out there for a Remedy Business Analyst?Do you or someone you know fit??? Please see the information below. *** Here 's a brief description of the type of person we are looking for We are looking for a Business Analyst with experience setting up and using the Remedy