Customised ARSlist RSS feeds

2011-05-26 Thread John Baker
Dear Listers, Some of you will know, JSS hosts an ARSlist archive on our website (http://www.javasystemsolutions.com/arslist) and we've added a new feature that may be of interest to you. We've provided RSS support that not only provides a feed of the list, but can be configured to feed via a

Re: OVERVIEW CONSOLE BLANK

2011-05-26 Thread Patel, Fazila
Thanks to everyone. The problem was Resolved by changing the Users profile on her pc. Kind Regards, Fazila Patel Remedy Administrator Siemens IT Solutions and Services (Pty) Ltd Infrastructure Operations Process Tools 126 14th Road Erand Gardens Midrand 1685, South Africa Tel :+27 11

CN=David Zifchock/OU=CORP/OU=NAM/O=APCC is out of the office.

2011-05-26 Thread David Zifchock
I will be out of the office starting 05/26/2011 and will not return until 05/31/2011. I will be out of the office from 5/26/2011 returning 5/31/2011. I will respond to your emails on return. ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access

Re: Assets import issue

2011-05-26 Thread Peter Romain
Turn on Active Link logging then open the AST form and do a search. Look for other search fields being populated automatically before the search is done such as the DatasetID. Maybe one of these is causing the search to return no records? Try exporting a record that works and one that doesn't

ARERR 303 in Filter (Advanced) Set Fields action

2011-05-26 Thread Mikhail Kovrizhnykh
Hi All, There is a regular from TEST and the filter that fire at Modify. Filter has one Set Fields action with Advanced flag. Sample Form Name = TEST, Read Value for Field From = $SCHEMA$. Set Field If = 'Request ID' = 001 . Then I set Custom matches for fields, this Filter works

Override Server view and filed display property caching

2011-05-26 Thread uday kiran
Hi Listers, When a form is open in Dev studio we have form properties basic then Override Server display caching Select the Disable VUI Display Property Caching check box to disable caching of view display properties for this form. Clear the check box to enable caching for this form. Select the

BMC Analytics - UpTimeChar field from SLM:Measurement

2011-05-26 Thread Mr. Tee
Hi ARSLIST I have been asked to find some information on where to find the field UpTimeChar from the ITSM form called SLM:Measurement in the BMC Analytics application? Do you know where to find this field in the BMC Analytics application? Thanks in advance. :) Mr. Tee

Re: OVERVIEW CONSOLE BLANK

2011-05-26 Thread uday kiran
May i know what you changed in User Profile?? Thanks Udayakiran On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Patel, Fazila fazila.pa...@siemens.com wrote: ** Thanks to everyone.  The problem was Resolved by changing the Users profile on her pc. Kind Regards, Fazila Patel Remedy Administrator

Re: OVERVIEW CONSOLE BLANK

2011-05-26 Thread Patel, Fazila
1) Renamed local user's profile. 2) It creates a new one. 3) Logon to Remedy and it works. 4) Go back to old profile. 5) Delete new profile that was created. Kind Regards, Fazila Patel Remedy Administrator Siemens IT Solutions and Services (Pty) Ltd Infrastructure

Re: Canned packages that extend BMC Remedy

2011-05-26 Thread John Sundberg
thx On May 25, 2011, at 8:48 PM, David Ferguson wrote: ** Yurbi www.yurbi.com -Business Intelligence, Data Integration, and Correlation and Alert Engine thanks, David On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:59 AM, John Sundberg john.sundb...@kineticdata.com wrote: ** I am compiling a list of

Re: Canned packages that extend BMC Remedy

2011-05-26 Thread John Sundberg
thx On May 25, 2011, at 9:08 PM, Kelly Gatewood wrote: ** www.northcraftanalytics.com Kelly From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of David Ferguson Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 7:48 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Canned

How can we enable CI level access to users?

2011-05-26 Thread Mahendra Mahalkar
Hi, I have been aske to restrict support group level access to CIs. Is this recommended? e.g SG1 will handle Computer system, SG2 can handle Software systems and related licenses. so SG1 should have access to comp systems only and not software systems. I checked CI clases and permissions in

Re: How can we enable CI level access to users?

2011-05-26 Thread Peter Romain
What do you mean by restrict? What versions and what modules do you have? Multi-tenancy can be used to restrict CI's that users see but this will probably be no good for you as it will also restrict access to tickets. You can give users asset user permission which will only allow them to see

Re: BMC Analytics - UpTimeChar field from SLM:Measurement

2011-05-26 Thread Satya Gandhi
Hi Tee, this object is not available in the OOTB universe. Create a new integer object on the ITSM universe as below: HPD_SLM_Measurement.UpElapsedTIme / 60 where HPD_SLM_Measurmeent.GoalCategoryChar = 'Incident Resolution Time' AND HPD_SLM_Measurement.SVTTitle LIKE '%100%' AND

Re: How can we enable CI level access to users?

2011-05-26 Thread Mahendra Mahalkar
Thanks Peter. Asset user permission will allow all the groups to see/modify all the CIs, not the specific CI type. The version and modules are ARS 7.6.04 and Asset, CMDB, IM, PM,CM. ** ** ** ** *Regards,* *Mahendra Mahalkar* On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Peter Romain

Re: How can we enable CI level access to users?

2011-05-26 Thread Atul Vohra
How about using account id field Atul Vohra On May 26, 2011, at 7:50 AM, Mahendra Mahalkar mahendra.mahal...@gmail.com wrote: ** Thanks Peter. Asset user permission will allow all the groups to see/modify all the CIs, not the specific CI type. The version and modules are ARS 7.6.04 and

Re: How can we enable CI level access to users?

2011-05-26 Thread Mahendra Mahalkar
Atul, Can account id provide CI type restriction? Can you please throw some light on it? ** ** ** ** *Regards,* *Mahendra Mahalkar* On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Atul Vohra a...@protechsoftwareinc.comwrote: ** How about using account id field Atul Vohra On May 26, 2011, at 7:50 AM,

Re: How can we enable CI level access to users?

2011-05-26 Thread Terry Bootsma
** This is covered in Chapter 1 - BMC Atrium 7.6 Administrator's Manual . Page 13.It discusses what you want to do and how to accomplish it.Terry On May 26, 2011, Mahendra Mahalkar mahendra.mahal...@gmail.com wrote: ** Hi, I have been aske to restrict support group level access to CIs. Is this

Re: Mid-Tier and opening several windows for a single logon session.

2011-05-26 Thread Rodriguez, Rafael J x23718
Thanks for the info, that does seems like a viable solution although if the current application has a link to the other application(Portal) then it will open it in the current browser app (IE) or (Firefox) which ever the user happens to be using. So the user would have to manually switch to

Re: Mid-Tier and opening several windows for a single logon session.

2011-05-26 Thread Rodriguez, Rafael J x23718
Thanks Dave for the information. I know what I need to do now. Rafael -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Easter, David Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 5:55 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Mid-Tier and

Re: Assets import issue

2011-05-26 Thread Shyam Attavar (SBC)
Actually, AIE was called EIE on ITSM 6.x (CMDB 1.1) and if memory serves me right, EIE had to be bought separately. So, if EIE was purchased, then it can be used for populating the CMDB. -- Shyam On May 25, 2011, at 9:43 PM, Vaibhav Singhal vaibhavsing...@hcl.com wrote: ** Thanks for the

BMC:Analytics Training?

2011-05-26 Thread JD Hood
BMC doesn't offer Analytics training. Anyone know of any self-help resources (other than the BMC docs) or other vendors offering any training? Thanks, JDHood ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at

Re: BMC:Analytics Training?

2011-05-26 Thread patrick zandi
just get the book... ;-) On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 9:38 AM, JD Hood hood...@gmail.com wrote: ** BMC doesn't offer Analytics training. Anyone know of any self-help resources (other than the BMC docs) or other vendors offering any training? Thanks, JDHood _attend WWRUG11 www.wwrug.com

Re: ARERR 303 in Filter (Advanced) Set Fields action

2011-05-26 Thread LJ LongWing
Mikhail, I'm curious if you reproduce this in an AL if it works properlyI have this exact same setup functioning in an AL, but can't say I have ever tried this exact combination in a filter. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: BMC:Analytics Training?

2011-05-26 Thread patrick zandi
http://www.ultimate-business-intelligence-guide.com/Business-Objects-Books.html On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 9:44 AM, patrick zandi remedy...@gmail.com wrote: just get the book... ;-) On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 9:38 AM, JD Hood hood...@gmail.com wrote: ** BMC doesn't offer Analytics training.

Re: BMC:Analytics Training?

2011-05-26 Thread Nathan Aker
Check with Stonebridge Technologies, they ran some custom BOXI training for us around the BMC Analytics tool. Nate. Nathan Aker ITSM Solution Architect McAfee, Inc. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of patrick zandi Sent: Thursday,

Note to the list about upgrading to 7.6.x of Analytics

2011-05-26 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
All, I'm still working through BMC to work this out (I'm at the level of talking to RD/ Product Managers) but basically the issue we have is in the upgrade/migration/whatever you want to call it of going from Analytics 2.5 to Analytics 7.6.04. Basically, if you follow what BMC recommends as far

How can we display date feilds in emails in local time.

2011-05-26 Thread Ron Tavares
Good Morning, When recipients receive email notifications with date fields on them, (example Change Request start time), the time is displayed in the email server time rather than the user's local time. I guess this makes sense since the email server has no way of knowing what time zone the

Re: How can we display date feilds in emails in local time.

2011-05-26 Thread Andrew C Goodall
At the very least, if BMC or ARlisters don't have another solution for you - I would add the timezone identifier after the date field in the email template so they know. e.g. #Create Date# CT Regards, Andrew Goodall Software Engineer 2 | Development Services | jcpenney . www.jcp.com

ITSM - 7.6.4 Relating Objects

2011-05-26 Thread Sanford, Claire
I have checked the BMC KB and found no answer. I went into Remedy to have it relate the objects the way the documentation said to do it and now the DB is running wild. I can't even log into Remedy to make it stop. A It appears to have stopped and started over. I tried to start the

Re: How can we display date feilds in emails in local time.

2011-05-26 Thread Ron Tavares
Thanks Andrew, That is the current plan that is on the table. But some users are not happy with it. On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Andrew C Goodall ago...@jcpenney.comwrote: ** At the very least, if BMC or ARlisters don’t have another solution for you - I would add the timezone

Re: How can we display date feilds in emails in local time.

2011-05-26 Thread Pierson, Shawn
If you're going to do a customization, and don't mind more effort, you could do a lookup on CTM:People to look for the site of the person to be emailed (I assume you would have their People ID, or at minimum you could match based on email address), which then you can match their location to the

Re: How can we display date feilds in emails in local time.

2011-05-26 Thread Brian Bishop
Hi Ron, This has been an issue right from the beginning and the best way to solve it is as Andrew suggested. However if this is not acceptable you could do the following. Copy the date/time into a character field before it is saved to the server and then the server won't touch it and put

Re: ITSM - 7.6.4 Relating Objects

2011-05-26 Thread strauss
I have had the same experience - if you turn it on after the fact (after installing the apps) the server becomes irrevocably hung. I have made a point of turning it on during installs and upgrades ( Set Object Modification Log ON) but have yet to see any positive result from doing so, possibly

Re: Does the order of the Set Fields or Push Fields If matter in relation to Index

2011-05-26 Thread Mueller, Doug
Everyone, Gary is correct. Whenever we query the DB, we create an SQL command with the query you entered appropriately translated to the underlying tables and issue it to the database. The DB engine optimizer does all the work of figuring out what index to use. The DB optimizers have become

New release of ARSmarts

2011-05-26 Thread Support
** Hello List, A short mail to let you know that a new build of ARSmarts 2.7 is available (build 265). If you are using ARSmarts, even unlicensed, we advise to use the latest build. Best regards. Kas www.arsmarts.com

Security Banner on each form

2011-05-26 Thread Atul Vohra
Hi, We have a requirement to have a security banner show up on all the forms (v 7.6.4) and am wondering if there is a way to implement this WITHOUT modifying each form. Thanks Atul Vohra ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access

Re: How can we enable CI level access to users?

2011-05-26 Thread Peter Romain
Asset User permission will allow users to see all CI's that they are entitled to see according to your multi-tenancy setup. They will only be able to modify those that have a related support group to which they belong. Have you looked at using the normalisation engine to set CI permissions?

Re: How can we enable CI level access to users?

2011-05-26 Thread Mahendra Mahalkar
The look at chapter 1 in Administrator guide page 13 and I found what I want. Thanks Terry. ** ** ** ** *Regards,* *Mahendra Mahalkar* On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Peter Romain p.romain.arsl...@parsolutions.co.uk wrote: Asset User permission will allow users to see all CI's that they

Re: How can we enable CI level access to users?

2011-05-26 Thread Mahendra Mahalkar
I haven't checked Normalization settings yet, but I am sure I can achieve by group/role permission model as explained in chapter 1 of administrative guide of CMDB. But still will check Normalization option so that in future it can give more flexibility. ** ** ** ** *Regards,* *Mahendra Mahalkar*

Re: ITSM - 7.6.4 Relating Objects

2011-05-26 Thread strauss
The 7.6.04 docs say that once you turn it on (Record-Object-Relationships: T) it causes the server to record all relationships before accepting any client connections, and that it may take an hour or more to do so. I know it was doing something before I stopped it... one CPU core (of 4) was at

Re: ITSM - 7.6.4 Relating Objects

2011-05-26 Thread Andrew C Goodall
I concur - we found the same very early on and switched it off. 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 strauss Sent:

SRM 764 Conditional WO

2011-05-26 Thread Frank Caruso
ITSM 764 sp1 SRM 764 ARS 764 sp1 Trying to create a PDT that has a conditional branch with two AOTs. The SRD has two questions. The second question is a YesNo answer. If the answer is Yes the conditional AOT will run creating a WO. I've done all the Field Mappings and specified the correct

Re: ITSM - 7.6.4 Relating Objects

2011-05-26 Thread strauss
Nothing like implementing a process that impacts the database and impacts the server while trying to re-create a feature found in IT Masters old MasterSuite product that did neither (and worked great). Christopher Strauss, Ph.D. Call Tracking Administration Manager University of North Texas

Re: ITSM - 7.6.4 Relating Objects

2011-05-26 Thread patchsk
Exactly the first time you enable record object relationships it will take more than an hour to startup, subsequent startups should be normal time. But once you turn it off, a restart will remove all the relationship entries created. We turned it on only on dev/qa server,we do not see much need to

Server view and filed display property caching Override

2011-05-26 Thread uday kiran
Hi When a form is open in Dev studio we have form properties basic then Override Server display caching check boxes what are they ? How exactly the check boxes used ? Thanks UdayaKiran ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist

Re: ITSM - 7.6.4 Relating Objects

2011-05-26 Thread Sanford, Claire
I turned it off in the ar.cfg file. Had the DBA stop the process, rebooted the server and it is running wild again. Can't even log into the system to turn it off properly. Now I am waiting for BMC support to respond. Any more suggestions? Is there something I can do from the command line?

Re: ITSM - 7.6.4 Relating Objects

2011-05-26 Thread Andrew C Goodall
We decided to use Abydos Analyzer http://abydos-workflow.com/Products/AbydosAnalyser/tabid/59/Default.aspx works well for our needs Regards, Andrew Goodall Software Engineer 2 | Development Services | jcpenney . www.jcp.com | -Original Message- From: Action Request System

Re: Canned packages that extend BMC Remedy - North Craft Analytics

2011-05-26 Thread Sanford, Claire
Never heard of them until this Anyone have an idea of how much they cost? From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Kelly Gatewood Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 8:09 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re:

Re: ITSM - 7.6.4 Relating Objects

2011-05-26 Thread strauss
...another reason that I have been keeping my 7.6.0x systems on manual startup of the AR Services. Change the service to manual and reboot again? I don't see why it would still be hung unless your db isn't as good about dropping connections. On my SQL Server the process appears to have ended

Re: ITSM - 7.6.4 Relating Objects

2011-05-26 Thread Jason Miller
Same here. We only use Record Object Relationships on non production servers. We too run ARInside against all of the servers.as well. We find we really only need to look at the relationships in Dev Studio when we are doing development work and if we really need to research relationships in

Re: Security Banner on each form

2011-05-26 Thread Mahesh
You may want to refer to ARS 7.6.04 Form and Application Guide - Page 426 - Applying skins to form views. Thanks Mahesh On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Atul Vohra a...@protechsoftwareinc.comwrote: Hi, We have a requirement to have a security banner show up on all the forms (v 7.6.4) and

Re: ITSM - 7.6.4 Relating Objects

2011-05-26 Thread LJ LongWing
I also run both, and have it enabled in all of my environments, even production. Granted, I don't use it much in production, but when I refresh my dev DB from prod, it stops dev from having to build it again from scratchbut then again, I'm not running ITSM. -Original Message- From:

Re: Errors when upgrading from ARS 7.5 to 7.6.04 SP1

2011-05-26 Thread Jason Miller
Turns out that we have two different BMC Remedy Action Request System Release Notes for 7.6.04. Both are dated 1/28/2011 and have the same title but the one with this tidbit about the arsystem.tag file has a document number 184374 and the shorter one without is document 180022. That still leaves

Re: ITSM - 7.6.4 Relating Objects

2011-05-26 Thread Jason Miller
I think there is a large difference between custom environments and ITSM 7.x. We accidentally turned it on a few years ago in our production 7.5 ARS with Help Desk 6 and a bunch of custom apps. Fortunately it only took about 10 minutes before it would allow connections. We'll be turning it on

Re: Errors when upgrading from ARS 7.5 to 7.6.04 SP1

2011-05-26 Thread strauss
Yes, I see it in my own arerror.log at the point when I upgraded ARS only from 7.6.03 to 7.6.04 SP1 to start the BPCU process. This did not generate a WARNING in the installation logs. I'll have to figure out what it was before I go on... if necessary, I'll open yet another issue on it like I

Spoof Emails

2011-05-26 Thread Phil Murnane
All: I received a report that my email address is sending out spam (tablets of some sort) -- the spammer sending these emails is just using my email account's name; the emails are not coming from my account (this is called spoofing). Please feel free to block the sender of the tablet emails.

Re: Errors when upgrading from ARS 7.5 to 7.6.04 SP1

2011-05-26 Thread Jason Miller
Thanks for confirming. I went the other way... Kept going and I'll look through the logs and figure it out later. It is all fixable, right :) On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 12:46 PM, strauss stra...@unt.edu wrote: ** Yes, I see it in my own arerror.log at the point when I upgraded ARS only from

Re: BMC:Analytics Training?

2011-05-26 Thread Jesse
If BMC doesnt offer it how dide I take BMC Analytics for BSM 2x Administering??? strange! ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug11 www.wwrug.com ARSList: Where the Answers Are

Re: Errors when upgrading from ARS 7.5 to 7.6.04 SP1

2011-05-26 Thread Rodriguez, Rafael J x23718
Jason we had the same issue. If you enable SQL log during the install you will see that the culprit is the AR System User Central File form. The is a bug in 7.6.4 installer that tries to create an index on this form and if you have data in the form you will get this error. BMC recommended that

Re: ARERR 303 in Filter (Advanced) Set Fields action

2011-05-26 Thread Mahesh
Populate the name of the form into a field and use that field as the run time form value. Thanks Mahesh On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 3:32 AM, Mikhail Kovrizhnykh mkovrizhn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, There is a regular from TEST and the filter that fire at Modify. Filter has one Set Fields

Re: Errors when upgrading from ARS 7.5 to 7.6.04 SP1

2011-05-26 Thread strauss
Okay - I have 273 records in that table. Funny that this never raised an error in the installation logs. Christopher Strauss, Ph.D. Call Tracking Administration Manager University of North Texas Computing IT Center http://itsm.unt.edu/ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: Errors when upgrading from ARS 7.5 to 7.6.04 SP1

2011-05-26 Thread Jason Miller
Thank you very much for the info! I am thinking the User Central File is not worth running the upgrade again. I decided this morning to create a new sandbox using the Preconfigured Stack Installer and run a Migrator difference report to see what may have fallen out of the upgrade. Sounds like it

Re: Errors when upgrading from ARS 7.5 to 7.6.04 SP1

2011-05-26 Thread LJ LongWing
Ok...shot in the dark here.. I have seen the 'unique index' error when you are trying to rename an object to the exact same name, but with case difference..so, as I said, shot in the dark On startup, your system may be trying to import email forms (default behavior) if they don't

WSDL question about SRM_RequestInterface_Create_WS

2011-05-26 Thread Christine
In the WSDL SRM_RequestInterface_Create_WS when the Operation Type = Create, there is a statement of xsd:element type=xsd:string name=SRD_Number/ (no quotes) in the file. Does this mean that if that SRD number is included in the xml data submission that the referenced SRD will be used? Thereby

Re: BMC:Analytics Training?

2011-05-26 Thread JD Hood
I could not find it in their education offerings and called to see what's up. Per BMC Partner Education contact Sara Mione on 23-MAY-2011: BMC does not currently offer Analytics training BMC is aware there is a demand for it BMC is considering looking into it. Strange indeed! On Thu, May 26,

Approval server for custom application

2011-05-26 Thread Raj Remedy
Hi,   Can someone send me  a document that explains the procedure of associating approval server to a custom application? I looked up the Approval Server document. Not sure if it covers all the steps. We are using approval server 7.5   Thanks for all the help.   -- Raj

Re: date format and separator. : 03/21/2011 (ARERR 9951)

2011-05-26 Thread francoiss
Hi All, Thank you for your responses. I found the issue to be the Public Holidays specified in the Business Segments form. Every time I submit an Incident then a SVT should attach to the Incident but fail due to the public holidays date format. Regards Francois -- View this message in

Re: ARERR 303 in Filter (Advanced) Set Fields action

2011-05-26 Thread Mikhail Kovrizhnykh
LJ LongWing (Head) wrote: Mikhail, I'm curious if you reproduce this in an AL if it works properlyI have this exact same setup functioning in an AL, but can't say I have ever tried this exact combination in a filter. Active Link works fine with Advanced Set Fields with Matching Ids

Re: ARERR 303 in Filter (Advanced) Set Fields action

2011-05-26 Thread Mikhail Kovrizhnykh
Mahesh Chandra wrote: Populate the name of the form into a field and use that field as the run time form value. Thanks Mahesh Unfortunatelly, this solution also does not work. Is it works in your workflow??? -- View this message in context: