Re: What is it about the ARSlist that keeps you here rather than Communities

2015-08-18 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I'm not extremely active because I am juggling several major projects at the 
moment but I'd like to chime in for this.  Also, thank you for maintaining the 
list and keeping it available to us this long.

*Why are you more active here?

I'm not especially active on either forum at the moment because of my workload, 
but I read the ARSList on a regular basis because it's easier.

*What makes the ARSlist different\unique\special versus Communities.

This is much easier to use for me.  I feel like part of the problem is how 
things have to be categorized on BMCDN to a very granular degree.  It's not 
hard to use, but requires a little more thought than an email does.  Plus, 
there is the sticky aspect that I see things appear here from people that I 
know are knowledgeable.  Email is also a lot easier to consume so I can 
passively scan large volumes of ARSList postings where I can't do that on BMCDN.

*Do you miss the ARSlist Awards and sessions or see this list as a commodity 
now and just want to use it.

I've never really participated in the awards either way.  I think community 
building is great but I barely have much time to participate.

Thanks,

Shawn Pierson
Remedy Developer | Energy Transfer

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2015-08-18 Thread Jeramie Crabtree
All-

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Re: What is it about the ARSlist that keeps you here rather than Communities

2015-08-18 Thread Joe D'Souza
Hello Dan,

 

My answers too reflect what others (Tauf Chowdhury, John Baker, Shawn
Pierson, Warren) have already given. Where I think Warren meant the ARS List
is a simple thing if you read into what he really meant..

 

Why are you more active here?

It's Email. Its something I may be stuck with for the rest of my life. I may
not have the choice to not check it anymore while I am still alive. And
while there is no escape from it I might as well use it for some useful
stuff like the ARS List. IF a better means of documented/archive-able
electronics communications emerge that makes email obsolete, I might find
the value of the ARS List slightly diminish. But until then it's the best
out there.

 

I think a better question would be why am I not so active on the
Communities??

Why the extra effort to login into something if I can get the same or maybe
sometimes even better and quicker response - from people I have actually
met, wined and dined with?

 

There is almost no added value in the Communities that I can see even if it
were non-censored. And if what I just read that it is censored is really
true, (which I assumed it was be even before John made that statement a few
minutes ago), I find it even less valuable than before.

 

As long as the Communities is owned by BMC, even if they were to solemnly
swear that they would never censor anything from it, I think personally I
would still not be totally sold on it - but that's me, not the credibility
of BMC. I would add to say they are a very credible organization - but
that's sometimes not enough to convince an individual like me. :-). I prefer
an unbiased end user opinion of a product I wish to buy or use or continue
to use rather than hear a opinion that meets the approval of the company
that made the product.

 

What makes the ARSlist different\unique\special versus Communities.

No login required other than the credentials for email - and email is
something is a given these days. It makes it much more easily accessible
than the Communities. I for one in fact am surprised the Communities got as
far as it did. But then again I was surprised with the success of Facebook
and Instagram too - and they are a success. The communities is the
Facebook of the Remedy world. ARS List is just good old email.. It might
get popular but the idea will still not get sold to an individual like me
who opened a Facebook account only after being peer pressured into it.

 

Why are you more active here?

I'm not as active as I used to be in the past - but that's no reflection on
the quality of the list or my interest in the subject. It's just that I too
juggle with too many things on my free time these days which includes my
motorcycle :-). But I am certainly more active here than on communities
where I might read or post something once a month or less. Why?? THIS IS
SIMPLE. A 3 year old could do this. And I am just 4.

 

Do you miss the ARSlist Awards and sessions or see this list as a commodity
now and just want to use it.

Yes I do miss those awards. It was a good practice to acknowledge some of
the individuals that spend so much of their time on the list with no
expectation of any rewards - sometimes not so much as a thank you - that
helped. But that still doesn't drive down the interest some have on this
list which I think is quite a valuable thing. The awards also added a social
aspect to the list and its absence may perhaps make this just another
commodity. I think even if not within the framework of a WWRUG, it may be
great to have an acknowledgement of such persons annually.

 

Would I be interested in a separate RUG not hosted by BMC.. I think I would
especially if it has the same structural organization as it did in the past
before BMC took over.

 

Joe

 

  _  

From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Daniel
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 12:52 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: What is it about the ARSlist that keeps you here rather than
Communities

 

I know many of us go to both, I am especially interested in those that are
here and not on communities or more active her.

 

Why are you more active here?

 

What makes the ARSlist different\unique\special versus Communities.

 

Do you miss the ARSlist Awards and sessions or see this list as a commodity
now and just want to use it.

 

Yes there is a purpose and an end goal here.

 

If there is a company interested in sponsoring the ARSlist in it's current
form, and\or having a partnership with WWRUG, I would be happy to hear from
you.

 

Cheers Dan

Creator of the ARSlist

_ARSlist: Where the Answers Are and have been for 20 years_

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What is it about the ARSlist that keeps you here rather than Communities

2015-08-18 Thread John Baker
Shawn noted:

 I'm not extremely active because I am juggling several major projects at the 
 moment but I'd like
 to chime in for this.  Also, thank you for maintaining the list and keeping 
 it available to us this long.

Indeed, thank you Daniel.

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What is it about the ARSlist that keeps you here rather than Communities

2015-08-18 Thread John Baker
Would you believe it, but BMC still censor posts on BMC Communities? 

Dare I mention any other SSO solution than AtriumSSO, which every man
and his dog within BMC knows has been a complete shambles, they'll
delete my post! Even if I point someone with a small budget at the 'open
source' SSO solution for AR System, their moderators become quite cross. 

So Daniel, despite our famous rows, I still prefer reading ARSlist for
the BMC gossip :) 

By the way, whilst I'm posting, I'll add a shamlesss plug. BMC's current
'front page' success story at Vodafone
(http://www.bmcsoftware.uk/customers/vodafone.html) is deployed with the
JSS SSO Plugin. :)

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Re: What is it about the ARSlist that keeps you here rather than Communities

2015-08-18 Thread Tauf Chowdhury
My responses.. and I would be interested in hearing about sponsorship
options Dan.
Why are you more active here? It's easy. It's email. It's simple. I have
logins and apps for a billion other things that are mission critical in my
life. I can't say that BMC Communities is one of them. ARSlist is tied into
my email and I can (and do) mostly respond from my phone... except for this
one!

What makes the ARSlist different\unique\special versus Communities. -
Keeping it simple. Got a question, ask it, get a bunch of answers related..
or loosely related to what you asked.. and get it quickly. I also don't get
distracted by badges, points, other activities that I need to address in
Communities.

Do you miss the ARSlist Awards and sessions or see this list as a commodity
now and just want to use it. - I miss the awards and sessions. I think the
WWRUG team did a good job at trimming a lot of the marketing crap from the
session content. The awards were just goofy as hell and a good time. I'd
rather spend 60 minutes hearing about that then learning about how circuits
are going to take over the world and oil becomes unnecessary and  somehow
that is supposed to get me excited about BMC.

Hope you appreciate the candor. Thanks!



On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Daniel daniel.bl...@danielbloom.ca
wrote:

 **

 I know many of us go to both, I am especially interested in those that are
 here and not on communities or more active her.



 Why are you more active here?



 What makes the ARSlist different\unique\special versus Communities.



 Do you miss the ARSlist Awards and sessions or see this list as a
 commodity now and just want to use it.



 Yes there is a purpose and an end goal here.



 If there is a company interested in sponsoring the ARSlist in it’s current
 form, and\or having a partnership with WWRUG, I would be happy to hear from
 you.



 Cheers Dan

 Creator of the ARSlist
 _ARSlist: Where the Answers Are and have been for 20 years_




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Re: What is it about the ARSlist that keeps you here rather than Communities

2015-08-18 Thread Warren R. Baltimore II
Daniel,

While I do utilize the community a bit (not much) it's a simple thing for
me.  This is easier, it is tried and true.  Frankly, I find the whole
community site a horrid pain.  Very confusing and not user friendly.

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Pierson, Shawn 
shawn.pier...@energytransfer.com wrote:

 **

 I’m not extremely active because I am juggling several major projects at
 the moment but I’d like to chime in for this.  Also, thank you for
 maintaining the list and keeping it available to us this long.



 *Why are you more active here?



 I’m not especially active on either forum at the moment because of my
 workload, but I read the ARSList on a regular basis because it’s easier.



 *What makes the ARSlist different\unique\special versus Communities.



 This is much easier to use for me.  I feel like part of the problem is how
 things have to be categorized on BMCDN to a very granular degree.  It’s not
 hard to use, but requires a little more thought than an email does.  Plus,
 there is the “sticky” aspect that I see things appear here from people that
 I know are knowledgeable.  Email is also a lot easier to consume so I can
 passively scan large volumes of ARSList postings where I can’t do that on
 BMCDN.



 *Do you miss the ARSlist Awards and sessions or see this list as a
 commodity now and just want to use it.



 I’ve never really participated in the awards either way.  I think
 community building is great but I barely have much time to participate.



 Thanks,



 *Shawn Pierson *

 Remedy Developer | Energy Transfer
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Remedy Developer
410-533-5367

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Re: What is it about the ARSlist that keeps you here rather than Communities

2015-08-18 Thread remedyboy
I use list because it is in email format 
Why: because I can search gmail anytime without an account login, it is easy in 
Google and BMC cannot remove the information.
I can use from my iPhone 
I am not dependent on another company just google. When BMC is down Google is 
up?
And last ; I am as 90% of all Americans -- resistant to change.


Sent from my iPhone

 On Aug 18, 2015, at 12:52 PM, Daniel daniel.bl...@danielbloom.ca wrote:
 
 **
 I know many of us go to both, I am especially interested in those that are 
 here and not on communities or more active her.
  
 Why are you more active here?
  
 What makes the ARSlist different\unique\special versus Communities.
  
 Do you miss the ARSlist Awards and sessions or see this list as a commodity 
 now and just want to use it.
  
 Yes there is a purpose and an end goal here.
  
 If there is a company interested in sponsoring the ARSlist in it’s current 
 form, and\or having a partnership with WWRUG, I would be happy to hear from 
 you.
  
 Cheers Dan
 Creator of the ARSlist
 _ARSlist: Where the Answers Are and have been for 20 years_

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What is it about the ARSlist that keeps you here rather than Communities

2015-08-18 Thread John Baker
LJ

I don't want this thread to be hijacked - but a point on censorship. 

If something doesn't work, it doesn't work. Deleting posts has got
little to do with machetes and more to do with an admission of failure.
If someone is wrong and made some statemnt (X doesn't work), why not
correct them?

For example, BMC claim AtriumSSO provides a secure implementation for CA
SiteMinder, yet reviewing the OpenAM source code demonstrates that it
doesn't fully implement the SiteMinder protocol. Sharing this fact on
BMC Communities was apparently 'offensive' - however others may conclude
that misleading customers over the security aspects of a product is a
somewhat greater crime.

Here's the value of ARSList. BMC can't take away an email making an
assertion that they dislike. 

Once upon a time, BMC were the masters of all they surveyed, but the
wheels are now falling off the wagon. Repeated warnings about product
quality - often made on this list - have been ignored. BMC are welcome
to censor postings on Communities if it makes them feel better, but
those ARSlist warnings will persist forever.

But getting back to the original point: It's not just censorship,
ARSlist is easy to use and I can read the emails on my iPhone wherever I
may be regardless of whether I have any 3g. That's a big bonus. Also,
ARSlist seems to attract the brigher BMC bods - probably because it's
been around forever.


John

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Re: What is it about the ARSlist that keeps you here rather than Communities

2015-08-18 Thread Timothy Powell
I 2nd this. I use both, but I find the list is much easier to use. I can scan 
it quickly looking for topics that interest me. I can post to it quickly. I get 
answers quickly. Fancy graphics, contributor points and “participation badges” 
are fluff. To answer that lady from the old Wendy’s commercials: THIS is where 
the beef is….

 

Tim

 

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[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Warren R. Baltimore II
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 3:06 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: What is it about the ARSlist that keeps you here rather than 
Communities

 

** 

Daniel, 

While I do utilize the community a bit (not much) it's a simple thing for me.  
This is easier, it is tried and true.  Frankly, I find the whole community site 
a horrid pain.  Very confusing and not user friendly.

 

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Pierson, Shawn 
shawn.pier...@energytransfer.com mailto:shawn.pier...@energytransfer.com  
wrote:

** 

I’m not extremely active because I am juggling several major projects at the 
moment but I’d like to chime in for this.  Also, thank you for maintaining the 
list and keeping it available to us this long.

 

*Why are you more active here?

 

I’m not especially active on either forum at the moment because of my workload, 
but I read the ARSList on a regular basis because it’s easier.

 

*What makes the ARSlist different\unique\special versus Communities.

 

This is much easier to use for me.  I feel like part of the problem is how 
things have to be categorized on BMCDN to a very granular degree.  It’s not 
hard to use, but requires a little more thought than an email does.  Plus, 
there is the “sticky” aspect that I see things appear here from people that I 
know are knowledgeable.  Email is also a lot easier to consume so I can 
passively scan large volumes of ARSList postings where I can’t do that on BMCDN.

 

*Do you miss the ARSlist Awards and sessions or see this list as a commodity 
now and just want to use it.

 

I’ve never really participated in the awards either way.  I think community 
building is great but I barely have much time to participate.

 

Thanks,

 

Shawn Pierson 

Remedy Developer | Energy Transfer

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Re: What is it about the ARSlist that keeps you here rather than Communities

2015-08-18 Thread Rick Cook
It's the convenience, the fact that I can easily find what I'm looking for,
and frankly, the people.  Like Joe said, they are people I know.  And
like.

Rick
On Aug 18, 2015 12:41 PM, remedy...@gmail.com wrote:

 **
 I use list because it is in email format
 Why: because I can search gmail anytime without an account login, it is
 easy in Google and BMC cannot remove the information.
 I can use from my iPhone
 I am not dependent on another company just google. When BMC is down Google
 is up?
 And last ; I am as 90% of all Americans -- resistant to change.


 Sent from my iPhone

 On Aug 18, 2015, at 12:52 PM, Daniel daniel.bl...@danielbloom.ca wrote:

 **

 I know many of us go to both, I am especially interested in those that are
 here and not on communities or more active her.



 Why are you more active here?



 What makes the ARSlist different\unique\special versus Communities.



 Do you miss the ARSlist Awards and sessions or see this list as a
 commodity now and just want to use it.



 Yes there is a purpose and an end goal here.



 If there is a company interested in sponsoring the ARSlist in it’s current
 form, and\or having a partnership with WWRUG, I would be happy to hear from
 you.



 Cheers Dan

 Creator of the ARSlist
 _ARSlist: Where the Answers Are and have been for 20 years_

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Re: EXTERNAL: What is it about the ARSlist that keeps you here rather than Communities

2015-08-18 Thread Reiser, John J
Why are you more active here?
We get answers to our questions, even the dumb ones.
Arslist.org is always open in a browser on my PC.

What makes the ARSlist different\unique\special versus Communities.
Communities lets your search for a keyword. Bad thing? No but it is bad when it 
takes to one of the many flavors of BMC when I'm looking for Remedy AR System.
Even though a lot of stuff here goes over my head with ITSM and CMDB talk, it 
still keeps me aware of what goes on.

Do you miss the ARSlist Awards and sessions or see this list as a commodity now 
and just want to use it.
Haven't been to Engage or WWWRug. My RUG experiences were Remedy RUG only.
I did always enjoy nominating and voting though.

Thank you,
---
John J. Reiser
Building 760-J202
Remedy Developer/Administrator
Senior Software Development Analyst
Lockheed Martin - MST Moorestown Region
The star that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Pay close attention and be illuminated by its brilliance. - paraphrased by me

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To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: EXTERNAL: What is it about the ARSlist that keeps you here rather than 
Communities

**
I know many of us go to both, I am especially interested in those that are here 
and not on communities or more active her.

Why are you more active here?

What makes the ARSlist different\unique\special versus Communities.

Do you miss the ARSlist Awards and sessions or see this list as a commodity now 
and just want to use it.

Yes there is a purpose and an end goal here.

If there is a company interested in sponsoring the ARSlist in it's current 
form, and\or having a partnership with WWRUG, I would be happy to hear from you.

Cheers Dan
Creator of the ARSlist
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Re: Communicating between ARS Servers 7.6.04 and 8.1.2 using WSDL...

2015-08-18 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
There should not be any changes in there.

As a side note.  It is the complexity of the XML parsing that will affect 
MidTier more than the size.  I had a case with an external app calling one of 
my services more than 50 times in a couple of hours pushing over 3.6 Meg per 
XML payload.  MidTier 7.6.04 didn't have a problem.

Fred

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[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Joe D'Souza
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 11:41 AM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Communicating between ARS Servers 7.6.04 and 8.1.2 using WSDL...

**

This should not change much as the XSD's structure hasn't changed since 7.1.0, 
but I made a small error when stating the versions we would need to design a 
bidirectional communication between. It is 7.6.0 to 8.1.2 NOT 7.6.4 to 8.1.2.



Any changes in the XSD's between these??



Joe


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[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Terry Bootsma
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 8:14 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORGmailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Communicating between ARS Servers 7.6.04 and 8.1.2 using WSDL...

Just a note Joe.  Depending upon the amount of data and the frequency of the 
synchronization, you may want to consider another technology other than web 
services.  I was doing some load testing earlier this year and found that the 
mid-tier didn't scale very well when extracting large amounts of data via a 
programattic interface.  This makes sense since all the parsing of XML/SOAP 
that the midtier has to do when converting/unconverting the data.  Note, that 
this was not a Remedy ARSystem bottleneck, but the midtier.I worked with 
BMC support on this and it is something that they hope to fix in Remedy 9.  :-)

Terry



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[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Grooms, Frederick W
Sent: August-17-15 3:48 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORGmailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Communicating between ARS Servers 7.6.04 and 8.1.2 using WSDL...
**
It had to do with the change in the 7.1 patch where the namespace structure 
changed.  I think prior to the 7.1 patch there was no namespace and after the 
patch there was.

Fred

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[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Joe D'Souza
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 2:04 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORGmailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Communicating between ARS Servers 7.6.04 and 8.1.2 using WSDL...

**
Sally,

Thanks for your reply. From what I recollect (very vaguely) it wasn't as much 
to do with code change inside the AR layer as much it had to do with the 
structure of the WSDL's itself having changed with some new constructs added, 
that were not understood by the other system. I wish I had more details to 
share about that problem.

But I do remember BMC Support calling it as a known limitation between those 
two versions saying that the WSDL would need to be manually tweaked for it to 
work.

Joe

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[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Ludwig, Sally
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 2:45 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORGmailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Communicating between ARS Servers 7.6.04 and 8.1.2 using WSDL...

Hi Joe,

There was a significant code change for web services between 6.3 and 7.6.04 
which would have generated the problems you encountered.To be specific, it 
was at the 7.0.1 patch 004 level.   At that point, all components ( Dev Studio, 
Midtier and AR server)  needed to be at 7.0.1 patch 004 or better). There 
has not been any major changes between 7.6.04 and 8.1.02, so they should work 
in either direction.

Best regards
Sally Ludwig

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[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Joe D'Souza
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 1:40 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORGmailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Communicating between ARS Servers 7.6.04 and 8.1.2 using WSDL...
Importance: High

**

On paper - the easy answer is this should work.



However a few years ago (maybe 3 years ago) I was attempting to prototype 
communication between a 7.6.04 system and a 6.3 system, something failed, of 
which I do not recall details. It had something to do with one system not 
recognizing certain constructs in the WSDL in the other system. I am inclined 
to think it was the 6.3 system that could not understand the 7.6.04 WSDL 
completely.



Hence the intent behind this post - has anyone attempted a unidirectional or a 
bi directional sync of data between a 7.6.04 system and a 8.1.2 system? I might 
have to use search options too apart from create and modify options.



Has anyone done this? Did you'll use the WSDL that was generated OTB by the 
Developer Studio? Or did you'll need to modify it in order for it to work?



Joe





Re: What is it about the ARSlist that keeps you here rather than Communities

2015-08-18 Thread Lippincott, Levi (OMA-GIS)
This was recommended to me at WWRUG2013, before that I didn't know about 
ARSlist.

I am able to find information and get responses much faster here than on the 
Communities.

I will be at Engage this year and depending on how that goes I might be 
interested in seeing another WWRUG if it does not provide the type of 
information that I need.

Levi Lippincott / Remedy Administrator

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From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) 
[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Daniel
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 11:52 AM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: What is it about the ARSlist that keeps you here rather than 
Communities

**
I know many of us go to both, I am especially interested in those that are here 
and not on communities or more active her.

Why are you more active here?

What makes the ARSlist different\unique\special versus Communities.

Do you miss the ARSlist Awards and sessions or see this list as a commodity now 
and just want to use it.

Yes there is a purpose and an end goal here.

If there is a company interested in sponsoring the ARSlist in it's current 
form, and\or having a partnership with WWRUG, I would be happy to hear from you.

Cheers Dan
Creator of the ARSlist
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Re: a thread I haven't seen yet about BMC:Engage

2015-08-18 Thread Doug Blair
Oh, gosh!

I have been heads-down (well, only one head, really) pounding away at an 
ancient keyboard (I work in an operating museum) with big deliverables for 
weeks and almost missed this thread. I will surface long enough to come to 
Engage 2015, and wouldn’t miss it!

Why am I coming up for air? Simple: YOU!

Over the many years I have had one on one conversations with hundreds of people 
on this list at BMC Engage, WWRUG’s, BMC User World and the original RUG’s. In 
almost every one of these myriad dialogs I have learned something! There are 
billions of people, yet only a few thousand who practice this art, and those 
who really care will be at this annual meeting, sort of like the Convocation of 
Wizards. It’s a precious experience, and I look forward to seeing you again, 
hearing about your experiences, and learning something new.

I should point out that not all of the things I have learned have been job 
related or career enhancements. The impromptu studies of the trajectory 
stability of airborne snack cakes, for example, have nothing to do with the 
Action Request System and everything to do with the spirit of the practitioners.

Duck!

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 It was one of those weeks that we automatically excluded for WWRUG events.
 Along with Canadian Thanksgiving (which of course BMC:Engage landed on last 
 year).
  
 I am flying out first thing Monday, so much for Labour Day.
  
 Dan


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Re: EXTERNAL: What is it about the ARSlist that keeps you here rather than Communities

2015-08-18 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Why are you more active here?
An email list is much more convenient as Outlook is always running and keeping 
a browser open to a webpage is not practical for me.

What makes the ARSlist different\unique\special versus Communities.
Again, I don't have to go and open up a web browser to find something.

Do you miss the ARSlist Awards and sessions or see this list as a commodity now 
and just want to use it.
While I have only been able to make 1 RUG I do miss the awards.  It is always 
good to acknowledge and thank someone for helping you out.

Fred

From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) 
[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Daniel
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 12:52 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORGmailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: EXTERNAL: What is it about the ARSlist that keeps you here rather than 
Communities

**
I know many of us go to both, I am especially interested in those that are here 
and not on communities or more active her.

Why are you more active here?

What makes the ARSlist different\unique\special versus Communities.

Do you miss the ARSlist Awards and sessions or see this list as a commodity now 
and just want to use it.

Yes there is a purpose and an end goal here.

If there is a company interested in sponsoring the ARSlist in it's current 
form, and\or having a partnership with WWRUG, I would be happy to hear from you.

Cheers Dan
Creator of the ARSlist



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Re: What is it about the ARSlist that keeps you here rather than Communities

2015-08-18 Thread Jason Miller
I too have been in a number of those conversations. LJ stated it very well
and I agree.

The issue is not with you mentioning your product. Quite contrary in some
of these discussions there has been mention of how it is sad the approach
you often use overshadows the product you have to offer, and flat out
leaves JSS with a black eye. I remember in one post you ripped ASSO to
shreads techincally. While there were a few BMCers that became defensive
you made a very well stated, technical-based post that could not be argued
with. As much as a person or two wanted to delete the post it remained.

Just to throw this out there for everybody, there are customers like LJ and
myself that are moderators on the BMC Communities. We are involved in the
backchannel conversations (like mentioned above) that are not publicly
seen. It is not just BMC at the wheel there. Of course the platform being
provided by BMC gives them ultimate power but us customers are not afraid
to call them out when we feel somebody is being heavy-handed in the BMC
Communities. Sure they could kick us out of our role however I think there
are enough reasonable BMCers involved in BMC Communities that recognise the
value of outside moderators. Yes, I have upset some BMCers with my
outsider view in the Communities and so far I haven't been uninvited from
the party. However I also don't start with a machete. I typically start
with a small dead blow and work my way up from there if needed.

Jason

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 **
 John,
 I was involved in some of the discussions about what you had said on the
 communities that may have been edited/deletedI don't recall any of the
 specifics, but I can tell you that the discussion was around whether or not
 your statements were purely inflammatory in nature or not.  I do recall
 some discussion regarding your stance on just about everything 'BMC' which
 in almost every forum I have experienced it is hostile at bestI
 personally feel that your words would come across better if you didn't have
 a machete in hand slashing around at everything around you while you were
 saying them :)

 On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 11:47 AM, John Baker 
 jba...@javasystemsolutions.com wrote:

 Would you believe it, but BMC still censor posts on BMC Communities?

 Dare I mention any other SSO solution than AtriumSSO, which every man
 and his dog within BMC knows has been a complete shambles, they'll
 delete my post! Even if I point someone with a small budget at the 'open
 source' SSO solution for AR System, their moderators become quite cross.

 So Daniel, despite our famous rows, I still prefer reading ARSlist for
 the BMC gossip :)

 By the way, whilst I'm posting, I'll add a shamlesss plug. BMC's current
 'front page' success story at Vodafone
 (http://www.bmcsoftware.uk/customers/vodafone.html) is deployed with the
 JSS SSO Plugin. :)


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Re: EXTERNAL: What is it about the ARSlist that keeps you here rather than Communities

2015-08-18 Thread Lucero, Michelle
Hi, Dan:

I will always appreciate the ARSList.  I've signed up as soon as learned about 
it, last century.

Is it possible that the responses are divided based on longevity of ARSList 
membership?  Is it possible that some of us have fallen into the tried and true 
technology trap.  Or, dare I say, Well we've always done it that way.  Why 
change it?

Although my activity in BMC Communities is mediocre, especially when compared 
to Jason Miller and LJ Longwing, I do like having both options.  They both 
serve a purpose.

The main reason I started to become more active in BMC Communities two years 
ago is because BMC directed me to submit Ideas, when I reported certain items 
as defects that they felt were working as designed.  This coincides with 
their process change from internal enhancement requests to community votes.

Overall, the BMC Communities presentation layer is pretty.  However, I can't 
seem to give up the list.  I just can't.
-
Ditto Fred Groom's responses to your questions.

My two cents,
Michelle


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[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Grooms, Frederick W
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 5:05 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: What is it about the ARSlist that keeps you here rather 
than Communities

**
Why are you more active here?
An email list is much more convenient as Outlook is always running and keeping 
a browser open to a webpage is not practical for me.

What makes the ARSlist different\unique\special versus Communities.
Again, I don't have to go and open up a web browser to find something.

Do you miss the ARSlist Awards and sessions or see this list as a commodity now 
and just want to use it.
While I have only been able to make 1 RUG I do miss the awards.  It is always 
good to acknowledge and thank someone for helping you out.

Fred

From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) 
[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Daniel
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 12:52 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORGmailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: EXTERNAL: What is it about the ARSlist that keeps you here rather than 
Communities

**
I know many of us go to both, I am especially interested in those that are here 
and not on communities or more active her.

Why are you more active here?

What makes the ARSlist different\unique\special versus Communities.

Do you miss the ARSlist Awards and sessions or see this list as a commodity now 
and just want to use it.

Yes there is a purpose and an end goal here.

If there is a company interested in sponsoring the ARSlist in it's current 
form, and\or having a partnership with WWRUG, I would be happy to hear from you.

Cheers Dan
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Re: Communicating between ARS Servers 7.6.04 and 8.1.2 using WSDL...

2015-08-18 Thread Joe D'Souza
I hit send too soon.

 

When you mentioned your concern about extracting large amounts of data
using WSDL, did you mean large number of rows at a time? Or records with a
large size?

 

Joe

 

  _  

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[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Terry Bootsma
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 8:14 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Communicating between ARS Servers 7.6.04 and 8.1.2 using
WSDL...

 

Just a note Joe.  Depending upon the amount of data and the frequency of the
synchronization, you may want to consider another technology other than web
services.  I was doing some load testing earlier this year and found that
the mid-tier didn't scale very well when extracting large amounts of data
via a programattic interface.  This makes sense since all the parsing of
XML/SOAP that the midtier has to do when converting/unconverting the data.
Note, that this was not a Remedy ARSystem bottleneck, but the midtier.I
worked with BMC support on this and it is something that they hope to fix in
Remedy 9.  :-) 

 

Terry

 

 

 

 

  _  

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[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Grooms, Frederick W
Sent: August-17-15 3:48 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Communicating between ARS Servers 7.6.04 and 8.1.2 using
WSDL...

** 

It had to do with the change in the 7.1 patch where the namespace structure
changed.  I think prior to the 7.1 patch there was no namespace and after
the patch there was.

 

Fred

 

From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Joe D'Souza
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 2:04 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Communicating between ARS Servers 7.6.04 and 8.1.2 using
WSDL...

 

** 

Sally,

 

Thanks for your reply. From what I recollect (very vaguely) it wasn't as
much to do with code change inside the AR layer as much it had to do with
the structure of the WSDL's itself having changed with some new constructs
added, that were not understood by the other system. I wish I had more
details to share about that problem.

 

But I do remember BMC Support calling it as a known limitation between those
two versions saying that the WSDL would need to be manually tweaked for it
to work.

 

Joe

  _  

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[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Ludwig, Sally
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 2:45 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Communicating between ARS Servers 7.6.04 and 8.1.2 using
WSDL...

 

Hi Joe,

 

There was a significant code change for web services between 6.3 and 7.6.04
which would have generated the problems you encountered.To be specific,
it was at the 7.0.1 patch 004 level.   At that point, all components ( Dev
Studio, Midtier and AR server)  needed to be at 7.0.1 patch 004 or better).
There has not been any major changes between 7.6.04 and 8.1.02, so they
should work in either direction.  

 

Best regards

Sally Ludwig

 

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[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Joe D'Souza
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 1:40 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Communicating between ARS Servers 7.6.04 and 8.1.2 using WSDL...
Importance: High

 

** 

On paper - the easy answer is this should work.

 

However a few years ago (maybe 3 years ago) I was attempting to prototype
communication between a 7.6.04 system and a 6.3 system, something failed, of
which I do not recall details. It had something to do with one system not
recognizing certain constructs in the WSDL in the other system. I am
inclined to think it was the 6.3 system that could not understand the 7.6.04
WSDL completely.

 

Hence the intent behind this post - has anyone attempted a unidirectional or
a bi directional sync of data between a 7.6.04 system and a 8.1.2 system? I
might have to use search options too apart from create and modify options.

 

Has anyone done this? Did you'll use the WSDL that was generated OTB by the
Developer Studio? Or did you'll need to modify it in order for it to work?

 

Joe

 

 

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Re: Communicating between ARS Servers 7.6.04 and 8.1.2 using WSDL...

2015-08-18 Thread Joe D'Souza
Thanks for that insight.

 

We might not face that particular bottleneck as the requirement here is a
very temp solution while on-boarding users to a newer version of the Remedy
systems. Instead of a BB approach, we have decided to run 7.6.04 parallel to
8.1.2 and onboard smaller groups first with fewer users followed by larger
groups. So the tickets would be raised by a group either on 7.6.04 or 8.1.2,
depending on where they are supposed to be. And if the ticket has to be
transferred to a group that is on the other version, that's where there is
that data transfer. Else it stays on the system it was raised in.

 

We are attempting to solution that problem, and given our processing power
(# of AR Servers, mid tiers, size of machines, etc.), I think we may not
have problem with the system unable to process data transferred through WSDL
efficiently.

 

But a good thought and I'll keep that in mind in case we need to design
searches to extract data. For the moment, I would think we may require a
search only if we want to look up the corresponding ticket on the other
system - especially work log from the other system prior to the ticket being
transferred.

 

Joe

 

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From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Terry Bootsma
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 8:14 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Communicating between ARS Servers 7.6.04 and 8.1.2 using
WSDL...

 

Just a note Joe.  Depending upon the amount of data and the frequency of the
synchronization, you may want to consider another technology other than web
services.  I was doing some load testing earlier this year and found that
the mid-tier didn't scale very well when extracting large amounts of data
via a programattic interface.  This makes sense since all the parsing of
XML/SOAP that the midtier has to do when converting/unconverting the data.
Note, that this was not a Remedy ARSystem bottleneck, but the midtier.I
worked with BMC support on this and it is something that they hope to fix in
Remedy 9.  :-) 

 

Terry

 

 

 

 

  _  

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[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Grooms, Frederick W
Sent: August-17-15 3:48 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Communicating between ARS Servers 7.6.04 and 8.1.2 using
WSDL...

** 

It had to do with the change in the 7.1 patch where the namespace structure
changed.  I think prior to the 7.1 patch there was no namespace and after
the patch there was.

 

Fred

 

From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Joe D'Souza
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 2:04 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Communicating between ARS Servers 7.6.04 and 8.1.2 using
WSDL...

 

** 

Sally,

 

Thanks for your reply. From what I recollect (very vaguely) it wasn't as
much to do with code change inside the AR layer as much it had to do with
the structure of the WSDL's itself having changed with some new constructs
added, that were not understood by the other system. I wish I had more
details to share about that problem.

 

But I do remember BMC Support calling it as a known limitation between those
two versions saying that the WSDL would need to be manually tweaked for it
to work.

 

Joe

  _  

From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Ludwig, Sally
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 2:45 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Communicating between ARS Servers 7.6.04 and 8.1.2 using
WSDL...

 

Hi Joe,

 

There was a significant code change for web services between 6.3 and 7.6.04
which would have generated the problems you encountered.To be specific,
it was at the 7.0.1 patch 004 level.   At that point, all components ( Dev
Studio, Midtier and AR server)  needed to be at 7.0.1 patch 004 or better).
There has not been any major changes between 7.6.04 and 8.1.02, so they
should work in either direction.  

 

Best regards

Sally Ludwig

 

From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Joe D'Souza
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 1:40 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Communicating between ARS Servers 7.6.04 and 8.1.2 using WSDL...
Importance: High

 

** 

On paper - the easy answer is this should work.

 

However a few years ago (maybe 3 years ago) I was attempting to prototype
communication between a 7.6.04 system and a 6.3 system, something failed, of
which I do not recall details. It had something to do with one system not
recognizing certain constructs in the WSDL in the other system. I am
inclined to think it was the 6.3 system that could not understand the 7.6.04
WSDL completely.

 

Hence the intent behind this post - has anyone attempted a unidirectional or
a bi directional sync of data between a 7.6.04 system and a 8.1.2 system? I
might have to use search options too apart from create and modify options.

 

Has anyone done this? Did 

Re: Smart IT Issue - Relating CIs

2015-08-18 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I'm on the same version, and logged in as myself with admin rights so I can see 
more datasets than most people, but still most of I.T. has access to at least 
two datasets here.

Thanks,

Shawn Pierson 
Remedy Developer | Energy Transfer

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Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 9:12 AM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Smart IT Issue - Relating CIs

Shawn,

What version of Smart IT are you using?  I'm working through a project to 
implement Smart IT and I'm using Smart IT 1.1 Patch 01 and could not replicate 
your issue.  See attached image of my search on one of our servers where I did 
not return multiple results, just one.

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Re: Communicating between ARS Servers 7.6.04 and 8.1.2 using WSDL...

2015-08-18 Thread Joe D'Souza
This should not change much as the XSD's structure hasn't changed since
7.1.0, but I made a small error when stating the versions we would need to
design a bidirectional communication between. It is 7.6.0 to 8.1.2 NOT 7.6.4
to 8.1.2.

 

Any changes in the XSD's between these??

 

Joe

 

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From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Terry Bootsma
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 8:14 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Communicating between ARS Servers 7.6.04 and 8.1.2 using
WSDL...

 

Just a note Joe.  Depending upon the amount of data and the frequency of the
synchronization, you may want to consider another technology other than web
services.  I was doing some load testing earlier this year and found that
the mid-tier didn't scale very well when extracting large amounts of data
via a programattic interface.  This makes sense since all the parsing of
XML/SOAP that the midtier has to do when converting/unconverting the data.
Note, that this was not a Remedy ARSystem bottleneck, but the midtier.I
worked with BMC support on this and it is something that they hope to fix in
Remedy 9.  :-) 

 

Terry

 

 

 

 

  _  

From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Grooms, Frederick W
Sent: August-17-15 3:48 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Communicating between ARS Servers 7.6.04 and 8.1.2 using
WSDL...

** 

It had to do with the change in the 7.1 patch where the namespace structure
changed.  I think prior to the 7.1 patch there was no namespace and after
the patch there was.

 

Fred

 

From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Joe D'Souza
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 2:04 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Communicating between ARS Servers 7.6.04 and 8.1.2 using
WSDL...

 

** 

Sally,

 

Thanks for your reply. From what I recollect (very vaguely) it wasn't as
much to do with code change inside the AR layer as much it had to do with
the structure of the WSDL's itself having changed with some new constructs
added, that were not understood by the other system. I wish I had more
details to share about that problem.

 

But I do remember BMC Support calling it as a known limitation between those
two versions saying that the WSDL would need to be manually tweaked for it
to work.

 

Joe

  _  

From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Ludwig, Sally
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 2:45 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Communicating between ARS Servers 7.6.04 and 8.1.2 using
WSDL...

 

Hi Joe,

 

There was a significant code change for web services between 6.3 and 7.6.04
which would have generated the problems you encountered.To be specific,
it was at the 7.0.1 patch 004 level.   At that point, all components ( Dev
Studio, Midtier and AR server)  needed to be at 7.0.1 patch 004 or better).
There has not been any major changes between 7.6.04 and 8.1.02, so they
should work in either direction.  

 

Best regards

Sally Ludwig

 

From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Joe D'Souza
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 1:40 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Communicating between ARS Servers 7.6.04 and 8.1.2 using WSDL...
Importance: High

 

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On paper - the easy answer is this should work.

 

However a few years ago (maybe 3 years ago) I was attempting to prototype
communication between a 7.6.04 system and a 6.3 system, something failed, of
which I do not recall details. It had something to do with one system not
recognizing certain constructs in the WSDL in the other system. I am
inclined to think it was the 6.3 system that could not understand the 7.6.04
WSDL completely.

 

Hence the intent behind this post - has anyone attempted a unidirectional or
a bi directional sync of data between a 7.6.04 system and a 8.1.2 system? I
might have to use search options too apart from create and modify options.

 

Has anyone done this? Did you'll use the WSDL that was generated OTB by the
Developer Studio? Or did you'll need to modify it in order for it to work?

 

Joe

 

 

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What is it about the ARSlist that keeps you here rather than Communities

2015-08-18 Thread Daniel
I know many of us go to both, I am especially interested in those that are
here and not on communities or more active her.

 

Why are you more active here?

 

What makes the ARSlist different\unique\special versus Communities.

 

Do you miss the ARSlist Awards and sessions or see this list as a commodity
now and just want to use it.

 

Yes there is a purpose and an end goal here.

 

If there is a company interested in sponsoring the ARSlist in it's current
form, and\or having a partnership with WWRUG, I would be happy to hear from
you.

 

Cheers Dan

Creator of the ARSlist


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Re: What is it about the ARSlist that keeps you here rather than Communities

2015-08-18 Thread LJ LongWing
John,
I was involved in some of the discussions about what you had said on the
communities that may have been edited/deletedI don't recall any of the
specifics, but I can tell you that the discussion was around whether or not
your statements were purely inflammatory in nature or not.  I do recall
some discussion regarding your stance on just about everything 'BMC' which
in almost every forum I have experienced it is hostile at bestI
personally feel that your words would come across better if you didn't have
a machete in hand slashing around at everything around you while you were
saying them :)

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 11:47 AM, John Baker jba...@javasystemsolutions.com
 wrote:

 Would you believe it, but BMC still censor posts on BMC Communities?

 Dare I mention any other SSO solution than AtriumSSO, which every man
 and his dog within BMC knows has been a complete shambles, they'll
 delete my post! Even if I point someone with a small budget at the 'open
 source' SSO solution for AR System, their moderators become quite cross.

 So Daniel, despite our famous rows, I still prefer reading ARSlist for
 the BMC gossip :)

 By the way, whilst I'm posting, I'll add a shamlesss plug. BMC's current
 'front page' success story at Vodafone
 (http://www.bmcsoftware.uk/customers/vodafone.html) is deployed with the
 JSS SSO Plugin. :)


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Re: Overview Console Issue

2015-08-18 Thread Hennigan, Sandra, CTR, DSS
Mark,

The display of tickets on the Overview console is determined by the user's 
Application Preferences, form CTM:CFG-ApplicationPreferences. You can set a 
System default set of preferences for all users and each user can set their 
own.

Thank you,

Sandra


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Hi All,



Seeing an issue with the overview console. When logging on the console 
correctly displays Assigned to Me. Selecting All My Groups works but then when 
going back to something else, all open Incidents, Changes, Tasks, and Work 
Orders are displayed.



Has anyone seen this happen?

Better yet, can anyone tell me how the queries are built? Have tried digging 
through the workflow and logs and have not hit on how it works yet.



ARS 7.6.04 SP5

ITSM 7.6.04 SP2

Mid-Tier 7.6.04 SP5



Thanks

Mark



Mark Brittain

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ITILv3 Foundation, Continual Service Improvement

NaviSite, Inc. - A Time Warner Cable Company

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JOB: Full-time Remedy Developer on 8.x - ActioNet, Inc.

2015-08-18 Thread Eric Chasteen
Hello Listers,

I'm looking for a full-time Remedy Developer with 8.x AR platform
administrator and developer experience.

Full-time ActioNet employee with benefits, competitive salary, and paid BMC
training.

Located at customer site in Aurora, CO.

Must be a US citizen with ability to pass Federal Government clearance.

If interested, please E-mail me at echast...@actionet.com

Regards,

Eric Chasteen

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Overview Console Issue

2015-08-18 Thread Brittain, Mark
Hi All,

Seeing an issue with the overview console. When logging on the console 
correctly displays Assigned to Me. Selecting All My Groups works but then when 
going back to something else, all open Incidents, Changes, Tasks, and Work 
Orders are displayed.

Has anyone seen this happen?
Better yet, can anyone tell me how the queries are built? Have tried digging 
through the workflow and logs and have not hit on how it works yet.

ARS 7.6.04 SP5
ITSM 7.6.04 SP2
Mid-Tier 7.6.04 SP5

Thanks
Mark

Mark Brittain
Sr. OSD Systems Engineer
ITILv3 Foundation, Continual Service Improvement
NaviSite, Inc. - A Time Warner Cable Company
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Re: Communicating between ARS Servers 7.6.04 and 8.1.2 using WSDL...

2015-08-18 Thread Terry Bootsma
 

To answer your question... either. 

We've experienced that the midtier single-threads these web-service
queries when they come through the midtier. Thus, if you have multiple
people querying the same web service simultaneously, the second is
blocked until the first is completed. 

Midtier 8.1.01 

Terry 

On 2015-08-18 11:13, Joe D'Souza wrote: 

 ** 
 
 I hit send too soon. 
 
 When you mentioned your concern about extracting large amounts of data 
 using WSDL, did you mean large number of rows at a time? Or records with a 
 large size? 
 
 Joe 
 
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 [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] ON BEHALF OF Terry Bootsma
 SENT: Monday, August 17, 2015 8:14 PM
 TO: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
 SUBJECT: Re: Communicating between ARS Servers 7.6.04 and 8.1.2 using WSDL... 
 
 Just a note Joe. Depending upon the amount of data and the frequency of the 
 synchronization, you may want to consider another technology other than web 
 services. I was doing some load testing earlier this year and found that the 
 mid-tier didn't scale very well when extracting large amounts of data via a 
 programattic interface. This makes sense since all the parsing of XML/SOAP 
 that the midtier has to do when converting/unconverting the data. Note, that 
 this was not a Remedy ARSystem bottleneck, but the midtier. I worked with BMC 
 support on this and it is something that they hope to fix in Remedy 9. :-) 
 
 Terry 
 
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 SENT: August-17-15 3:48 PM
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 It had to do with the change in the 7.1 patch where the namespace structure 
 changed. I think prior to the 7.1 patch there was no namespace and after the 
 patch there was. 
 
 Fred 
 
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 Sally, 
 
 Thanks for your reply. From what I recollect (very vaguely) it wasn't as much 
 to do with code change inside the AR layer as much it had to do with the 
 structure of the WSDL's itself having changed with some new constructs added, 
 that were not understood by the other system. I wish I had more details to 
 share about that problem. 
 
 But I do remember BMC Support calling it as a known limitation between those 
 two versions saying that the WSDL would need to be manually tweaked for it to 
 work. 
 
 Joe 
 
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 SENT: Monday, August 17, 2015 2:45 PM
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 SUBJECT: Re: Communicating between ARS Servers 7.6.04 and 8.1.2 using WSDL... 
 
 Hi Joe, 
 
 There was a significant code change for web services between 6.3 and 7.6.04 
 which would have generated the problems you encountered. To be specific, it 
 was at the 7.0.1 patch 004 level. At that point, all components ( Dev Studio, 
 Midtier and AR server) needed to be at 7.0.1 patch 004 or better). There has 
 not been any major changes between 7.6.04 and 8.1.02, so they should work in 
 either direction. 
 
 Best regards 
 
 Sally Ludwig 
 
 FROM: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) 
 [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] ON BEHALF OF Joe D'Souza
 SENT: Monday, August 17, 2015 1:40 PM
 TO: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
 SUBJECT: Communicating between ARS Servers 7.6.04 and 8.1.2 using WSDL...
 IMPORTANCE: High 
 
 ** 
 
 On paper - the easy answer is this should work. 
 
 However a few years ago (maybe 3 years ago) I was attempting to prototype 
 communication between a 7.6.04 system and a 6.3 system, something failed, of 
 which I do not recall details. It had something to do with one system not 
 recognizing certain constructs in the WSDL in the other system. I am inclined 
 to think it was the 6.3 system that could not understand the 7.6.04 WSDL 
 completely. 
 
 Hence the intent behind this post - has anyone attempted a unidirectional or 
 a bi directional sync of data between a 7.6.04 system and a 8.1.2 system? I 
 might have to use search options too apart from create and modify options. 
 
 Has anyone done this? Did you'll use the WSDL that was generated OTB by the 
 Developer Studio? Or did you'll need to modify it in order for it to work? 
 
 Joe 
 
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Re: Smart IT Issue - Relating CIs

2015-08-18 Thread Jamie
That is a bit odd, as I'm also listed as an Administrator on my environment.

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