Re: Development question

2012-03-01 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, I think you should go with your original plan and set a third field when both A and B has been set. Alternatively use the SET-CHANGE-FLAG to 1 whenever both fields have values. I presume taht by saying A is changed you mean ('A' != $NULL$), as this is a display-only-field? Best

too many Migrator errors.

2012-03-01 Thread Frex Popo
Dear all,   I have been having some serious problems with migrator and would like to know from anyone how opted for some other product. It’s quite unbelievable that a migration fails for one form or some other object, then you fix it and try and migrate the same .migration file only for some

Re: too many Migrator errors.

2012-03-01 Thread Mark Lev
If it is data that you are migrating, then I suggest you look at RRR Chive. It’s free, it’s awesome, and most importantly, it works, even with huge migrations. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Frex Popo Sent: Thursday, March 01,

Mid-Tier, Advanced Search Bar Question

2012-03-01 Thread Axton
I have the Query Bar form action field (fid 1005) on my form. Here are some odd scenarios: 1. If the Query Bar field is on the view and hidden and I attempt to use a predefined search, the search returns an error that an unqualified search is not allowed. 2. If the Query Bar field is on the view

Re: too many Migrator errors.

2012-03-01 Thread Arner, Todd
We had similar issues with the 7.1 version. Also had issues with the migrations being extremely slow. After we upgraded migrator to 7.5 all of our issues seemed to go away. You may also want to try deleting the migrator cache and rebuild it. That has solved issues we’ve seen in the past.

Re: too many Migrator errors.

2012-03-01 Thread Avy Mann
Frex, I am not sure if this will help but: 1)You may want to first run a difference report between your migrator file and your destination server (assuming you are exporting to a migrator file as your first step-can mitigate mistakes). 2)You then would migrate each object type that shows up

Slow server starts

2012-03-01 Thread William Abdo
Hi All, I am respectfully asking for your wisdom in an issue I am having. I have noticed that our virtual servers are taking upwards to 45 minutes - 1 hour to start-up. This is unacceptable and I am currently in a guessing game for the true cause. Memory, connections, ... 1 physical 124 gig

Re: Slow server starts

2012-03-01 Thread Tauf Chowdhury
You should enable SQL and/or API logging and then perform a restart to see where you are getting hung up. It could be some external DB link or something that ARS is getting hung up on if you have any integrations. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 1, 2012, at 11:26 AM, William Abdo

Re: Slow server starts

2012-03-01 Thread La Grua, Edward
William, I have the same issue...when the application server is located a different data center than where the Oracle DB is located. The latency seems to be the cause. My restarts in the same Data center take 10 minutes and when in a different DC it takes 30 minutes. Thanks,

Re: Slow server starts

2012-03-01 Thread Tommy Morris
You can also check the server logs and see what errors the service is reporting on startup. I had this happen (though not as extensive) and could see DB timeouts in the logs. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of La Grua, Edward Sent:

Re: Slow server starts

2012-03-01 Thread Terje Moglestue
William, I got the same issue on MS SQL on a remote server and find it very slow to start-up. Are you using FQDN (fully qualified domain name) for all server references within BMC? With a correct setup in you DNS servers it should not make a difference. I found that we had less issues and

Re: too many Migrator errors.

2012-03-01 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I’ve had many issues with Migrator 7.6.4 for workflow. The quick explanation is that it migrates your code, but randomly drops permissions on Active Links and I seem to recall it caused some problems with View and/or Vendor forms as well. Unfortunately there was no indication that there were

Re: Very Soon: BMC RD proactively Sharing and openly Interacting

2012-03-01 Thread Jason Miller
This is awesome Matt! Jose, I definitely see your point. My thought is having it in a phone call format will provide a bit more of a dynamic interaction. For example I can post a discussion in the BMC Communities and there is a good chance I will get a reply from somebody at BMC. A response

Re: Mid-Tier, Advanced Search Bar Question

2012-03-01 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
Looks like your test case 1 2 a bug to me. To the best of my knowledge it should not matter if the 1005 field is not in any of the views or if its on any of the views and what the display properties of that field is. It should work.. Have you tried the same with a different version

Re: Slow server starts

2012-03-01 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
William, This could be a known problem with the ARS on a VM using Oracle as the DB.. By design, the AR Server is designed to read chunks of 100 records so the bottle neck is when its reading the display properties table which has over a 140 K records if you have all the ITSM applications

Re: Mid-Tier, Advanced Search Bar Question

2012-03-01 Thread Mueller, Doug
Axton, The team here has confirmed that there is a problem as Axton describe. The field did work correctly in earlier versions. It is not working correctly in at least the 7.5 version and it may not be in later versions. A bug has been created and is being worked in every code line under

Re: Very Soon: BMC RD proactively Sharing and openly Interacting

2012-03-01 Thread bullcreek.com
I think BMC should host a one hour radio show where listeners could call in with their questions about AR System, Mid Tier, Workflow, Apps, Integrations, etc. with Doug Mueller and perhaps David Easter, Matt Laurenceau, or perhaps Lisa K (who did a great job on the 7.7 Beta calls), host the

Re: Development question

2012-03-01 Thread Jose Huerta
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OOTB Web services and Infopath

2012-03-01 Thread Peters, Ron
Hey everyone. Has anyone been able to connect to a Remedy web service with Infopath? I'm trying to connect to the OOTB service called HPD_IncidentInterface_Create_WS. The idea is to create an Infopath form (likely more than one) that will simply take the fields and create an incident using the

Re: Slow server starts

2012-03-01 Thread Easter, David
Additional ideas: 1. Check to see if your network operations team has inserted a firewall or other latency-creating mechanic between the server and the DB. General database tips To avoid a decline in the BMC Remedy AR System server performance, remember the following tips: ·

Re: Slow server starts

2012-03-01 Thread William Abdo
Thanks David Easter , I know we are using the max of 20 preload threads, however I do need to check on the firewall or other latency-creating mechanic between the server and the DB. If you think of anything else my ears are open. Respectfully, William From: Action Request System

Re : too many Migrator errors.

2012-03-01 Thread Frex Popo
Hello Mark,   I am migrating forms and workflow and data as well... But I am having a problem with the remedy objects... the migrator is working fine with the data albeit slow So my main priority at the moment is to get the forms and workflow   migrated, the rest I can figure out later.    

Re : too many Migrator errors.

2012-03-01 Thread Frex Popo
Oops! I forgot to mention that I am using the latest version I am using 7.4.6SP2... this was in fact recomended by BMC after we had serious problems with 7.1latest patch..   Anyway, will try and rebuild the cache again and see how it goes   thanks De : Arner,

Re: Slow server starts

2012-03-01 Thread Mike E. Hamner
William, There is a bug in SP1. We experienced the same issue and were told to get to SP2 to fix this. We are running SP2 in Dev now and its only taking about 5 minutes to restart but we don't have a fully populated DB/load on it yet from our prod image. Mike Hamner U.S. Department of Interior

Re: Re : too many Migrator errors.

2012-03-01 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
7.6.04 SP3 was released on Feb 6 (although I didn’t get the email notice until the 16th). Check the EPD site Fred From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Frex Popo Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 1:13 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject:

Re : too many Migrator errors.

2012-03-01 Thread Frex Popo
Thanks for the pointers..   I am migrating the objects in .migrator file I am only including the objects that are different from those in the target server...I am migrating forms and menus together in the same file and the rest of the workflow in another... so migrator should really workout

Re: Slow server starts

2012-03-01 Thread William Abdo
Hi Joe, The -t option has been applied to see what turns up From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Joe Martin D'Souza Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 12:46 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Slow server starts ** William,

Re: Slow server starts

2012-03-01 Thread William Abdo
Hi ED, No DB time outs recorded in the logs, could still be latency, I have to prove these things before they will take them seriously. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Tommy Morris Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 11:43 AM To:

Re: Slow server starts

2012-03-01 Thread William Abdo
Hi Tauf Chowdhury, We do see a stall in memory growth however the logs are clear of a noticeable issue. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Tauf Chowdhury Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 11:31 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re:

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 Easter, David
Yes. Introduced first in AR System 7.6.03. Rich-text formatting in data fields You can add rich-text formatting (RTF) to character fields in browsers so that users can make changes to the format of text in a character field. For example, a user might want to italicize or center text.

Re: rich text field

2012-03-01 Thread Andrew C Goodall
Thanks David! I was looking on 7.5, but luckily this is for an enhancement on 7.6.04 Regards, Andrew Goodall Software Engineer 2 | Development Services | jcpenney . www.jcp.com http://www.jcp.com/ From: Action Request System discussion

query help

2012-03-01 Thread Martinez, Marcelo A
I've drawn a blank.. need help creating a query. I have a field (field1) on a view form that I want to search for all records that do not contain symbol / (forward slash). Example of data in field: ABC/123 ABB ABC/345 DEF/555 DEF XY I only need the query to return ABB, DEF, XY. I can do

Re: query help

2012-03-01 Thread Axton
NOT ‘field1’ LIKE “%/%” On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Martinez, Marcelo A marc...@cpchem.com wrote: ** I’ve drawn a blank.. need help creating a query. I have a field (field1) on a view form that I want to search for all records that do not contain symbol “/” (forward slash). Example of

Re: Very Soon: BMC RD proactively Sharing and openly Interacting

2012-03-01 Thread Matt Laurenceau
Phil, Jason, Jose, all, This 1-hour monthly WebEx will indeed enable convo between you and experts. It doesn't prevent online conversations that happen almost 24x7, it enables live+interactive demos/explanations (from RD and/or you). We sure want to post the recordings. There are many people

Re: rich text field

2012-03-01 Thread Easter, David
In 7.5.00, you could use the template based tooltip / view field feature to display formatted HTML - but it's not exactly what you're looking for, admittedly. From the 7.5.00 What's New: Text formatting template and rich text formatting Templates are a method of formatting text dynamically for

SOAP API

2012-03-01 Thread Tommy Morris
I need to be able to push data to another system through a SOAP API however the Remedy 7.5 Integration Guide says that this is not possible. Has anyone found a way to utilize SOAP API or is this functionality available in 7.6.04? I have not pulled the 7.6.+ IG up to actually read for myself

Re: query help

2012-03-01 Thread Martinez, Marcelo A
Thanks Axton. I've not used NOT before. Your example does work querying the incident form, etc. But does not work on my vendor form (I said view form before, that's incorrect, my fault). Also 'field1' is a character field... 'field1' LIKE %/% -- works and returns the expected results. But I

Re: query help

2012-03-01 Thread Tommy Morris
Try it like this NOT ('field1' LIKE %/%) -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Martinez, Marcelo A Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 4:15 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: query help Thanks Axton. I've not

ava.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException

2012-03-01 Thread karun R
Hello All, We have upgraded one of our ARSystem servers and Midtier to 7.5 patch 7 from 7.0.01 patch 8. We are encountering java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException on websphere application server, which is causing 500 error to uses. We don't have an option other than restarting the web

Re: query help

2012-03-01 Thread Gentry, Elmer
Are your parentheses correct? (NOT('Field1' LIKE %/%) Thanks, Elmo Gentry Remedy Developer HP Enterprise Services -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Martinez, Marcelo A Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012

Re: SOAP API

2012-03-01 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Isn't the SOAP API just another way of saying a Web Service? From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Tommy Morris Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 4:07 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: SOAP API ** I need to be able to push data to another

Automate Cache Flush

2012-03-01 Thread LJ LongWing
I'm wanting to automate the cache flush and didn't find anything in the manuals about how to go about automating it.any suggestions are appreciated. ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend

Re: SOAP API

2012-03-01 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
I would think so as well.. Joe From: Grooms, Frederick W Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 5:33 PM Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: SOAP API ** Isn’t the SOAP API just another way of saying a Web Service? From: Action Request System discussion

Re: SOAP API (Resolved)

2012-03-01 Thread Tommy Morris
I freaked when I read SOAP-encoded arrays and SOAP-encoded structures are not supported I went back and actually RTM to find my where I had starting reading to far down the doc. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Grooms, Frederick W

Re: Automate Cache Flush

2012-03-01 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
Are you talking of the Mid-Tier Cache? Or the AR System Cache? If you are talking of the AR System cache its possible to do that running the arsignal command with the –g option. If you are talking of the Mid-Tier cache, I do not think there is any documented method of doing it.. Joe From: LJ

Re: SOAP API (Resolved)

2012-03-01 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
Arrays are not supported as there is no object within the AR System that you can map those to. AR System data is single dimensional and does not support the storage of arrays or structures so that statement is true.. As long as data is returned or sent as a single row, the AR System supports it

Re: SOAP API (Resolved)

2012-03-01 Thread Tommy Morris
So I can’t call a Web Service that pushes variables from Remedy to another data source that ONLY accepts external record creation via web service API? From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Joe Martin D'Souza Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012

ARERR 514: Contents of the Status-History field in the flat file database are missing or invalid

2012-03-01 Thread RemedyAdmin
Can anyone provide a hint/how to resolve this error? Thu Mar 1 18:07:30 2012 390603 : Contents of the Status-History field in the flat file database are missing or invalid (ARERR 514) -- View this message in context:

Re: query help

2012-03-01 Thread Martinez, Marcelo A
Tried NOT ('field1' LIKE %/%) --no go Tried (NOT ('field1' LIKE %/%)) -- no go I'll expand on my request a little. I have a vendor form reading active directory thru LDAP. One of the user's attributes is 'physicalDeliveryOfficeName' , some users have the value in this field as ABC/123 or ABC

Re: Automate Cache Flush

2012-03-01 Thread SriSamSri Appecherla
Hi LJ, The cache is automatically flushed based on Definition Change Check Interval parameter in the mid tier config page under Cache Settings. Regards, SriSamSri Appecherla Mobile# +61 469747355 On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 9:51 AM, LJ LongWing lj.longw...@gmail.com wrote: ** I’m wanting to

Date conversion in Pentaho/Spoon

2012-03-01 Thread Barbara Siebert
ARSListers, ARS Version: 7.6.04 SP2 MS SQL 20008 I'm learning Pentaho/Spoon (part of the new Atrium Integrator on ARS 7.6.04 SP2) and I'm stumped on how to get dates from a text file input to CMDBOutput. I'm following the sample from BMC. For example, my spreadsheet has a date in US

Re: Automate Cache Flush

2012-03-01 Thread LJ LongWing
Looking specifically for the MidTier Cache…I would like to be able to hit a URL and have it do it….all without human interaction. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Joe Martin D'Souza Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 4:04 PM To:

Re: SOAP API (Resolved)

2012-03-01 Thread LJ LongWing
Or a collection of multiple rows…you can do that by mapping that repeating structure to another form. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Joe Martin D'Souza Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 4:07 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re:

Re: Automate Cache Flush

2012-03-01 Thread LJ LongWing
Yes, but anyone that has worked with the product for a sufficiently long time knows that doesn't work properly. I have a migration process that I fire and when the process is over, I want it to automatically flush the cache on the configured web servers. From: Action Request System discussion

Re: query help

2012-03-01 Thread Mueller, Doug
Marcelo, The key topic here is that you are saying the form is a VENDOR FORM. Being a vendor form, the AR System passes the qualification criteria on to the plugin code that was written. That code is responsible for performing the query and doing the processing. So, the question is Does

Re: Automate Cache Flush

2012-03-01 Thread SriSamSri Appecherla
LJ, Automatic flush based on Definition Change Check Interval parameter works well for me :) Regards, SriSamSri Appecherla Mobile# +61 469747355 On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 10:29 AM, LJ LongWing lj.longw...@gmail.com wrote: ** Yes, but anyone that has worked with the product for a sufficiently

Re: ARERR 514: Contents of the Status-History field in the flat file database are missing or invalid

2012-03-01 Thread Mueller, Doug
Well, you gave no indicate of what you were doing or context of the message or version of the product or DB you are using or . So, no indication of anything other than an out of context error message. This makes it a bit difficult to help. But, the only place I have been able to find a

Re: ARERR 514: Contents of the Status-History field in the flat file database are missing or invalid

2012-03-01 Thread DEE
Your right Doug, I posted and ran to pick-up kids.. ARS 7.5P4 on 10g DB all on unix 6.1 - we are migrating to new server and db, and brought over the arsys_data schema - we are doing like for like. I queried knowledge base and google and only came up with references to error catalog. I'm not

Re: Automate Cache Flush

2012-03-01 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
I’ve wondered every now and then about that too.. But have not been hard pressed for it so never really followed on to find out. Like everyone else I login into the config and do it manually. That’s the only way I believe it is done with no command line option or a url to parse that does it

Message in Error log and AR Server timeout

2012-03-01 Thread h@rry
Hello Experts, We are on ARS and ITSM 7.6.04 and are facing an issue where we are finding the below content in the error log after which application goes into a timeout and users are unable to access Remedy, only solution is to restart the application. This is not happening at any defined time

Re: Message in Error log and AR Server timeout

2012-03-01 Thread Tauf Chowdhury
Harry, If you're running an unpatched 7604 instance then you are probably experiencing common memory leak issues with that build. Unfortunately, the errors you see may be the result of the memory leak and not the cause. In order to capture it, you would need to run logging and hope to catch the

Re: Message in Error log and AR Server timeout

2012-03-01 Thread strauss
We reported this problem with 7.6.04.01 last summer and have been living with it ever since. The mid-tier caches incorrect login names or incorrect case login names that are passed to AREA LDAP, especially when people try to use the mid-tier with a mobile device that capitalizes their login, and