A bit of Friday humour in BMC's Error messages

2013-10-18 Thread Ben Chernys
I just got the following errors with the 8.1 API against an 8.1 server (VERSION = 8.1.00 201301251157) ARGetServerInfo == 2, 123, Unrecognized server information tag 358 ARGetServerInfo == 2, 123, Unrecognized server information tag 357 ARGetServerInfo == 2, 123, Unrecognized server information

Re: A bit of Friday humour in BMC's Error messages

2013-10-18 Thread Joe D'Souza
Inaccurate error messages remind me of my first winter in Alaska last year where when the temperature late one night when I was returning from a late night movie show, was in its sub zeros, I still recall it was about -12 or -15 Fahrenheit (close to -24 to -26 Celsius) and in a hurry to get into a

Re: Incident ID - Different prefix, linear sequence for each Company

2013-10-18 Thread ranjit jadhav
Hello Mau, The incident id is generated on form HPD:CFG Ticket Num Generator, its request ID field has the default prefix as INC, if you change it here it will get applied for incident creation. To address your requirement you need some customization as bellow - For each

Approval Error

2013-10-18 Thread Rudra K
Hi Team, We are facing an error while approving any request through email. Error Sample:- a) Instruction: Instruction Number:0 Instruction Template: Message Type: Message Number: 4934 Message Text: The modify

Re: analyze your remedy's applications with ARSurf

2013-10-18 Thread Support
The tool make a photograph of the application ARS remedy using Api remedy. This picture takes on average 15 minutes; only in this moment ARSurf connects to the application server remedy. During this fifteen-minutes connection, on the machine where the exe Arsuf is launched, a proprietary DB is

Re: A bit of Friday humour in BMC's Error messages

2013-10-18 Thread LJ LongWing
What code is giving this? On Oct 18, 2013 12:40 AM, Ben Chernys ben.cher...@softwaretoolhouse.com wrote: ** I just got the following errors with the 8.1 API against an 8.1 server (VERSION = 8.1.00 201301251157) ARGetServerInfo == 2, 123, Unrecognized server information tag 358

Scan Barcodes to Remedy form on Windows mobile device

2013-10-18 Thread Robert Schickman
We have found a Mozilla browser, Fennec, that allows me to open Remedy forms directly on the Windows mobile device. I can now navigate to my form and scan barcodes directly in to my form fields. I have a list of assets in a table field, and will be able to scan in serial #'s.

OT - All time great error messages - Just for fun!

2013-10-18 Thread Gordon Frank
** This might be fun on a Friday! The best\non-useful error message I have ever seen was on an old Data General RDOS Mini-Computer (remember those?) A "system level"violation came back and said: Error: You Can't Do That BMC Remedy is full of these and they need to at least point you to an

Re: OT - All time great error messages - Just for fun!

2013-10-18 Thread laurent matheo
I¹m coding a program that checks BMC foundation data and I enforced a unicity on « first name + middle name + last name » and a customer told that « BMC Doesn¹t do that », here was my reply: Yeah but it's so dirty to have that... And then later customers complain people of service desk have a lot

Customization

2013-10-18 Thread Koyb P. Liabt
Hi, We have a serious issue. Our company has strictly mandated that no customizations be made to our ITSM system - unless BMC does it via a Hotfix. Management states that BMC informed them not to customize. (I believe it's more than an issue related to upgrades - not sure what all was

Re: Customization

2013-10-18 Thread Tauf Chowdhury
What version are you on? In the newer versions, BMC has made it easier to customize the system and every version, they try to take more and more customer customizations and make them something you can configure within the tool. So I guess the first question is if you are on a version that supports

Re: Customization

2013-10-18 Thread Roger Justice
The comment you state that Support provided is the starting point. Doug Mueller has made the same statement during presentations at WWRUG. The difference is that Doug will then add that if a customization is required to meet a specific need and there is no way to do it OOB then do the

Re: Backpay for Federal Contractors

2013-10-18 Thread Jim Coryat (jcoryat)
Honestly, this petition should of never been posted. In all fairness, Deepak needs to find some other means to circulate this request. Like the old saying goes, The road to hell is paved with good intentions. You cannot send something like this out and not expect to start some type of

Re: OT - All time great error messages - Just for fun!

2013-10-18 Thread Pierson, Shawn
It's a slight change of topic, but in my organization we use the Corporate ID for the menu on Customer*+ on Incidents, and instead of using an actual Corporate ID, I just use the format of Lastname, Firstname (Department) because while you may have two people with the same name, you usually

Re: OT - All time great error messages - Just for fun!

2013-10-18 Thread Jonas Stumph Stevnsvig
My favourite error message: Bad user. Replace and strike any key. (From a dos program with a list of entries, navigated with up and down arrow keys, selection with enter key - you got the error message if you pressed left or right key) Den 18-10-2013 15:06, laurent matheo skrev: ** I'm

Re: A bit of Friday humour in BMC's Error messages

2013-10-18 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I installed 8.1 Patch 2 on my development server this week, and it appears to have broken my Mid Tier. I should have known better than to apply a patch so hastily put together that the documentation for installing it is included in a file called Redme.txt (located in the

Re: OT - All time great error messages - Just for fun!

2013-10-18 Thread Rick Cook
My favorite is from the old DEC mainframes from the 1970s. It was simply ? Rick On Oct 18, 2013 6:50 AM, Jonas Stumph Stevnsvig arsl...@stevnsvig.com wrote: ** My favourite error message: Bad user. Replace and strike any key. (From a dos program with a list of entries, navigated with up

Re: Incident ID - Different prefix, linear sequence for each Company

2013-10-18 Thread Mauricio M.
It´s just the Incident ID field. This MSP has different tentants and they want to have a unique sequence for each one of them. I understand that the OOTB doesn´t let you have separate sequences then ... what about the prefix, does it come OOTB? Thanks! 2013/10/17 Roger Justice rjust2...@aol.com

Re: Incident ID - Different prefix, linear sequence for each Company

2013-10-18 Thread Roger Justice
There was another email that answered your question with suggestions that included creating new forms and new workflow to do what you are requestiong. All of the Active Links will need to have the Company name as a qualification. -Original Message- From: Mauricio M.

Re: OT - All time great error messages - Just for fun!

2013-10-18 Thread Sinclair, Keith
In one of my first jobs, I had to work in a customer service department with a system called JBA, which we all joked stood for Joke Bass Ackwards as it really was one of the most agent-user unfriendly systems. It had a help system that was comprised of multiple levels, each getting more

Re: Customization

2013-10-18 Thread tboot...@objectpath.com
** You could argue that part of your "competive advantage" over your competition are your internal processes and tools. If you are using the same processes and tools as others, how can you differentiate yourself from a competitive standpoint ? (I'm not sure what your business does or what services

Re: Approval Error

2013-10-18 Thread kunal das
Rudra, What version you are facing this error? The behavior you have reported is a known Defect SW00410854 in 8.0. You can reach out to BMC Support to get the fix. Hope this helps. Regards, Kunal On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Rudra K rudra3...@outlook.com wrote: Hi Team, We are facing

Re: Incident ID - Different prefix, linear sequence for each Company

2013-10-18 Thread Mauricio M.
Thanks Roger and Ranjit, and everyone That should solve the requirement Best Regards, -Mau 2013/10/18 Roger Justice rjust2...@aol.com ** There was another email that answered your question with suggestions that included creating new forms and new workflow to do what you are requestiong.

Re: Customization

2013-10-18 Thread Koyb P. Liabt
** We are on AR System/ITSM 7.6.4 and I have explained to the team that we have overlays which manages these code changes. The reply was No code changes - and BMC has to fix their application. (oh brother) From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: Customization

2013-10-18 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I agree with the suggestion from Tauf. It sounds to me like Remedy is being set up to fail in your organization, and you can extrapolate whether that impacts your job or not. If you otherwise like your company, see if you can find someone logical in the circle of decision makers, schedule an

Re: Approval Error

2013-10-18 Thread Rudra Kamat
Hi, Kunal. Thank you for your response. We are using ITSM 8.1 ,This issue is inconsistent, earlier it was working fine.. Regards,Rudra Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 20:15:35 +0530 From: kunalda...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Approval Error To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG ** Rudra, What version you are facing this

Re: A bit of Friday humour in BMC's Error messages

2013-10-18 Thread Ben Chernys
ARGetServerInfo J Ben From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of LJ LongWing Sent: October-18-13 14:15 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: A bit of Friday humour in BMC's Error messages ** What code is giving this? On Oct 18, 2013

Re: A bit of Friday humour in BMC's Error messages

2013-10-18 Thread LJ LongWing
Is this the C API then? On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Ben Chernys ben.cher...@softwaretoolhouse.com wrote: ** “ARGetServerInfo” J Ben ** ** *From:* Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] *On Behalf Of *LJ LongWing *Sent:*

Re: Upgrade Advice - Remedy 7.5 P003 + ITSM 7.6 Upgrade to 8

2013-10-18 Thread Davin Lindner-Green
It sounds like you are getting some good advice and have considered your options. I also favor the clean install and moving of the customizations. If you find it helpful and weren't able to attend WWRUG this year, my colleague Rick presented a Remedy 8.1 Best Practices presentation there. You

Re: Customization

2013-10-18 Thread Susan Palmer
Invite your management and Doug Mueller to have a discussion together. If Doug cannot reassure them it can be done, no one can. Susan On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Pierson, Shawn shawn.pier...@energytransfer.com wrote: ** I agree with the suggestion from Tauf. It sounds to me like

Re: A bit of Friday humour in BMC's Error messages

2013-10-18 Thread Ben Chernys
Yes. Ben From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of LJ LongWing Sent: October-18-13 18:04 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: A bit of Friday humour in BMC's Error messages ** Is this the C API then? On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 9:55

Re: A bit of Friday humour in BMC's Error messages

2013-10-18 Thread LJ LongWing
Sorrycan't help you then...I don't know the C API, just the Java one :( On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Ben Chernys ben.cher...@softwaretoolhouse.com wrote: ** Yes. Ben ** ** *From:* Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] *On Behalf

Need help to resolve this issue

2013-10-18 Thread Remedy consultant
Hello All, We have structured email interface (using template) .We are on ARS 7.1 version. It was working fine till yesterday but it is not working. Whenever we are sending email to particular mail id and when that email template gets parsed ,i am getting following error : *You do not have

Re: Need help to resolve this issue

2013-10-18 Thread Pargeter, Christie :CO IS
Did you make sure that at least one security group the email account has access to field 1 on the form? From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Remedy consultant Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 10:43 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Need

incoming message is not getting parsed.

2013-10-18 Thread Remedy consultant
Hello All, We have structured email interface (using template) .We are on ARS 7.1 version. It was working fine till yesterday but it is not working. Whenever we are sending email to particular mail id and when that email template gets parsed ,i am getting following error : You do not have write

Re: Need help to resolve this issue

2013-10-18 Thread Remedy consultant
Hello , Request ID (ID is 1) has three permissions i.e. Submitter ,Public and Assignee. Whereas user (created for this email interface) has admin permission and fixed license. Regards, Amit B. On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Pargeter, Christie :CO IS cparg...@lhs.org wrote: ** Did you

Re: incoming message is not getting parsed.

2013-10-18 Thread Sandeep Pandey
Hi, Please check field 1 permission groups. Have you given all write permission to the specific email interface user required for field1. seems only permission issue for this user. Regards, Sandeep Pandey On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:22 PM, Remedy consultant raccons...@gmail.comwrote: **

Re: incoming message is not getting parsed.

2013-10-18 Thread Remedy consultant
Hello Sandeep, Request ID (ID is 1) has three permissions i.e. Submitter ,Public and Assignee. Whereas user (created for this email interface) has admin permission and fixed license. Regards, Amit B. On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Sandeep Pandey sandeep.rem...@gmail.comwrote: ** Hi,

Re: incoming message is not getting parsed.

2013-10-18 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
You list the groups, but what is the permission (View or Change) for each group? Also, look to see what forms have been modified since it was working. The error may be from a form that gets pushed to. Fred From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On

Re: A bit of Friday humour in BMC's Error messages

2013-10-18 Thread Ben Chernys
I didn't think I needed help. The laugh after reading the error guide spurred me to write the email. That's all. Ben From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of LJ LongWing Sent: October-18-13 19:13 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: A

Re: Customization

2013-10-18 Thread Jason Miller
LOL! I have been thinking we need a visit from Doug too (not just around customizing but also for CMDB expectations reality check). In our org there are many of the same perceptions; that ITSM doesn't work how we want so it is broken. Occasionally somebody suggest that BMC needs to fix it.

Re: Customization

2013-10-18 Thread Susan Palmer
That's why we're a 'custom' shop. Our company is quite unique and has a vision and requirements that don't exactly fit the mold. Plus our business grows quickly and adds new requirements that ITSM may not be able to support OOB. We have our own equivalent of ITSM, just our version. Koyb might

OT: Customization

2013-10-18 Thread Jason Miller
So now that I have thrown out there that my team (and a few others) are the floodgate keeper closers... Can anybody point me to or share (offline even) a solid (ish) way to estimate effort levels? We are still learning and making the transition from all custom shop to ITSM shop and now more

Re: Customization

2013-10-18 Thread arslist
Does your company have the same unrealistic view of all application software or only BMC's? Feels like a Friday type thread, only a Dilbert version of it. Dan From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Koyb P. Liabt Sent: October 18,

Re: Customization

2013-10-18 Thread Rod Harris
Hi Koyb, I understand your frustration and I've seen similar edicts over the years. Like you I don't agree with them. Some observations It seems very easy for people to rush to blame any dissatisfaction with ITSM on the presence of any or too many customizations. Remedy ITSM has always been

Re: Customization

2013-10-18 Thread John Sundberg
Custom users are happy users. -John On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Rod Harris r...@smapps.com.au wrote: ** Hi Koyb, I understand your frustration and I've seen similar edicts over the years. Like you I don't agree with them. Some observations It seems very easy for people to rush to

Customization

2013-10-18 Thread Koyb P. Liabt
** That's a scary thought. I hope they do not have this point of view with any other application. It's unfortunate because BMC is a really good product, however our Managers are sending out this bad publicity due to a lack of understanding of the BMC products. When I try to explain -

Re: Need help to resolve this issue

2013-10-18 Thread Joel Sender
Maybe: 1. Check to see if workflow is pushing to another form, which could be the Field 1 in the error 2. Verify workflow isn't attempting to write to Field 1: 'pushing all fields' shouldn't include Field 1 Joel Joel Senderjdsen...@earthlink.net310.829.5552 From: