ARS 4.0

2006-08-28 Thread Melchisadec, Gurubatham
Title: ARS 4.0 ** Hi List, We have ARS 4.0 running in HP-UX 10.x and Oracle 7.3. We are planning to migrate the system to HP-UX 11.x and Oracle 8.1 Can any one help on what would be the impact ? Is there any change (software) required ? Is ARS 4.0 compatible with Oracle 8.1 Appreciate if

Re: Need help with `! Filter in Help Desk Out of the Box 6.0

2006-08-28 Thread Dan Caissie
** Jase I have had the same problem with this issue, The filter or active link will run on modify but not on submit, but I did create an escalation that will do this until I have time to re-visit this issue. I wish I could help you more but Im in the same boat and I just wanted to know

Re: Request for Enhancement (RFE) community discussion at BMC UserWorld - open invitation

2006-08-28 Thread Heider, Stephen
My $0.02 I look at this as a very good thing. It has been my experience that most large software companies rarely listen to their customers, unless they are the company's largest customer. I am encouraged that Dave is scheduling time to meet with any and all ARS Listers. I can only think

Re: Chinese Characters on a US database

2006-08-28 Thread VanAartsen, Christopher
** This is regardless of the WUT, both Chinese and English. Also with the user preference set as Chinese. I notice that with the User Preference set as Chinese,menus like File/View/Tools, etc show as Chinese characters. When using Mid-Tier 补救规则 does not change to until after

Re: Chinese Characters on a US database

2006-08-28 Thread Michiel Beijen
Chris,You said: Setup is unicode. Are you referring to the DATABASE or to the AR Server? What is the character set for your database? You can view this by right-clicking on the database in SQL Server Enterprise Manager. Kind regards,MichielOn 8/28/06, VanAartsen, Christopher [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: After all these years (10) confused about Licensing

2006-08-28 Thread McKenzie, James J C-E LCMC HQISEC/L3
Title: RE: After all these years (10) confused about Licensing ** Axton: This has been going back and forth since the 3.2 days. I believe that BMC/Remedy/Peregrine (I know but they have to be mentioned here) made it this way to prevent locking out a priority user from being able to do an

Re: Request for Enhancement (RFE) community discussion at BMC Use rWorld - open invitation

2006-08-28 Thread McKenzie, James J C-E LCMC HQISEC/L3
Title: RE: Request for Enhancement (RFE) community discussion at BMC UserWorld - open invitation ** +1 Those of us that cannot attend due to the current lockdown of Federal monies would like to add our input to the current RFE process and learn more about it. James McKenzie L-3 GSI

Re: After all these years (10) confused about Licensing

2006-08-28 Thread McKenzie, James J C-E LCMC HQISEC/L3
Title: RE: After all these years (10) confused about Licensing ** Mark: This has since been fixed. This was never supposed to be this way. James McKenzie -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Mark

Re: After all these years (10) confused about Licensing

2006-08-28 Thread Axton
James: It's going to be interesting for many Remedy users now that the same enforcement is being used for app licenses with the 7.0 apps. We have a mix of fixed and floating licenses, with a different number of licenses and a different mix for each of the apps. We have no way to guage the

Re: Request for Enhancement (RFE) community discussion at BMC Use rWorld - open invitation

2006-08-28 Thread Axton
Yep, I definitely have lots of opinions on the current process and suggestions to improve the process. Too bad I can't be involved in the discussion. Axton Grams On 8/28/06, McKenzie, James J C-E LCMC HQISEC/L3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** +1 Those of us that cannot attend due to the

FW: Request for Enhancement (RFE) community discussion at BMC Use rWorld - open invitation

2006-08-28 Thread Heider, Stephen
David, Would it be possible and would you consider setting up a WebEx session for this meeting, similar to the WebEx sessions BMC provided for the rollout of ARS 7.0 and ITSM 7.0? Stephen -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Request for Enhancement (RFE) community discussion at BMC Use rWorld - open invitation

2006-08-28 Thread McKenzie, James J C-E LCMC HQISEC/L3
Title: RE: Request for Enhancement (RFE) community discussion at BMC Use rWorld - open invitation ** +1. James McKenzie L-3 GSI -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Heider, Stephen Sent: Monday, August

ADM:OT:BMCUserWorld: Pin company may be out of business

2006-08-28 Thread Daniel Bloom
This might be a bit late, but for those of you coming to the BMC UserWorld, if you still have your old pins you could bring them with. The pins for this year have not been received and their phone is out of service (and yes I have already paid for them, sigh). On the good side, this year's

Copy To New

2006-08-28 Thread L. J. Head
I know I'm opening myself to public ridicule for this...but here it goes. I thought you could disable a copy to new as a menu option but when I look in the view properties I'm not seeing that option as a check I can untick. I know I can have an AL that fires on copy to new and throws an

Re: After all these years (10) confused about Licensing

2006-08-28 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, The user.log-file has the information you need to determine if you should give a user USER-FIXED or USER-FLOATING license. You can allways use the free portion of our rrrLic-tool to determine how well you are tuned, and if you have the correct mix of licenses on your server. Concerning the

Re: Status-History values and general operations...

2006-08-28 Thread Lucero, Michelle - IST contractor
Hi, Rick: It's better to perform the operation on the timestamp keyword then the actual field value. Try this. 'Status' =Closed AND 'Status-History.Closed.TIME' = ($TIMESTAMP$ - (7*86400)) Hopefully there's some other criteria or some flag that's being set. As, this will return all closed

Re: After all these years (10) confused about Licensing

2006-08-28 Thread McKenzie, James J C-E LCMC HQISEC/L3
Title: RE: After all these years (10) confused about Licensing ** Geoff: Let me state what BMC stated "As designed". This is because they are tightening down the licensing procedures. I don't like this as much as you do. BTW, if you want to continue this discussion, outside of my

Re: Request for Enhancement (RFE) community discussion at BMC Use rWorld - open invitation

2006-08-28 Thread McKenzie, James J C-E LCMC HQISEC/L3
Title: RE: Request for Enhancement (RFE) community discussion at BMC Use rWorld - open invitation ** Carey: Having participated in a WebEx with multiple users, it is very good (and it uses a phone conference bridge.) James McKenzie -Original Message- From: Action Request System

Re: After all these years (10) confused about Licensing

2006-08-28 Thread McKenzie, James J C-E LCMC HQISEC/L3
Title: RE: After all these years (10) confused about Licensing ** Misi: Thank you for reminding us about rrrLicense. Does it show if the user was given a write token or just a Float (Read)? Unfortunately, due to DoD restrictions on Temporary Duty, I am not able to attend RUG/BUW this

Re: Chinese Characters on a US database

2006-08-28 Thread VanAartsen, Christopher
** Michiel, thanks for the response. The Database is Unicode, (from the ar.cfg file) Db-Character-Set: UTF-16. Looks to me like the character set is the issue, we only have SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS collated. Can we add additional character sets at this point? Ö ñ ê ë è are in the

Re: How to verify if the current value entering exists on the database

2006-08-28 Thread Addis Solomon
** Kelly, I followed instruction # 2 however, the lastcount is counting all the records that areon the form instead of only values that matched the current value. Any recommendation?Kelly Deaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** There are several ways, depending on what you are trying to accomplish.

Re: After all these years (10) confused about Licensing

2006-08-28 Thread Geoff Endresen
We tested with Patch 017 of both the Mid-Tier and the Server. Hmmm... -Original Message- From: Mark Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Aug 26, 2006 4:52 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: After all these years (10) confused about Licensing Guess again :-) SW00218113 Server

Re: How to verify if the current value entering exists on the database

2006-08-28 Thread lars . j . pettersson
** Why make it so complicated Filter 1: ( 'TR.field' != 'DB.field') AND ( 'TR.field' != $NULL$ ) Action, set field, 'field' = $field$ to a tmp field, use first matching request, else set to null Filter 2: Check if the tmp field is null or not, and give an errormessage if not null. L

Re: Dynamic Button Image

2006-08-28 Thread L. J. Head
Ah...I just thought of a workaround for this...if you use attachments and view fields behind the buttons you could do dynamic images behind the buttons using setfield actions L. J. Head Software Engineer Remedy Approved Consultant -Original Message- From: Action Request System

Re: Status-History values and general operations...

2006-08-28 Thread Rick Phillips
Michelle, Thanks, and yes there are other criteria. I was just trying to confirm my understanding of Status-History fields. You know everything is moving along well; then smack, something you thought should have worked, didn't. I thought the status-history.*.TIME values would be stored as

Re: Request for Enhancement (RFE) community discussion at BMC Use rWorld - open invitation

2006-08-28 Thread Easter, David
Hi Folks, It's great to see the positive response to the concept of this meeting. For those that cannot make it to BMC UserWorld, I will post the results of the meeting to the ARSList and schedule a follow-up meeting after UserWorld if necessary to further discuss the ideas and topics brought

Re: Dynamic Button Image

2006-08-28 Thread Rocky Rockwell
What you might try is a view field. If the field is size just right and the images are sized right you can use workflow to change them. Just an idea. *Rocky* Rocky Rockwell eMA Team – Remedy Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph#1: 214-567-8874 Ph#2: 325-884-1263 Herb

ARS 7.0 VMWare environment

2006-08-28 Thread Mohan Panchangmath
Hi , We are planning to upgrade our current VMware test server from ARS 6.3 to ARS 7.0 and ITSM 6.0 . Has anybody done a similar upgrade in a VMWare environment and are there any issues reported ? I saw the latest KB (Remedy Support ) on VMware support prior to ARS 7.0 ITSM 7.0 release and it

Re: Status-History values and general operations...

2006-08-28 Thread Carey Matthew Black
Rick, Your thinking is correct as far as the math goes... However, I am wondering what the exact error message was in the log file? Maybe you simply have workflow that is throwing an error message because the Escalation is trying to alter the data in a way that violates a business rule? (

Re: Need help with `! Filter in Help Desk Out of the Box 6.0

2006-08-28 Thread Carey Matthew Black
Jase, Ok.. I think I see a few misconceptions in your attempts to fix this issue. So let me try to slow a few things down and see if we can work this out. :) As I understand what your tying to do... 1) Your trying to get a value from SLA_Date_Due into SHR:Consolidated List. However the value

Re: How to verify if the current value entering exists on the database

2006-08-28 Thread Mike White
I was thinking more basic/fundamental. Filters support TR. field name prefixes for specifically this purpose. It's the transaction value (vs. DB. or database value). If TR. value is not null, it's been changed (i.e. different from the database value). In your example, your Run If would include

Re: ARS 7.0 VMWare environment

2006-08-28 Thread Rick Cook
** Mohan, I know of no new issues in v7regarding running Remedy in a virtual environment - in fact, Remedy runs their pre-sales demos in a VM, so it's obviously a technology with which they have some experience and level of comfort. I would say that ITSM 7 is going to require more resources than

ARS 7 + Oracle 10gR2 = Can Not Install ARS

2006-08-28 Thread Heider, Stephen
I have been working today on getting ARS 7.0 patch 1 installed on my desktop computer. The installation program has never completely successfully. I have attempted the installation about 20-25 times today. I installed the Oracle instance on Friday with no errors. I can login to SQL Plus without

Recall: ARS 7 + Oracle 10gR2 = Can Not Install ARS

2006-08-28 Thread Heider, Stephen
Title: Recall: ARS 7 + Oracle 10gR2 = Can Not Install ARS ** Heider, Stephen would like to recall the message, ARS 7 + Oracle 10gR2 = Can Not Install ARS. __20060125___This posting was submitted with HTML in it___

FW: ARS 7 + Oracle 10gR2 = Can Not Install ARS

2006-08-28 Thread Heider, Stephen
Sorry, had to fix a typo. It's the type when you don't include the word not it changes the entire meaning. I have been working today on getting ARS 7.0 patch 1 installed on my desktop computer. The installation program has never completed successfully. I have attempted the installation about

Re: How to verify if the current value entering exists on the database

2006-08-28 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, Just for the record... The following qualification does not verify that a field has been changed: ('TR.field' != 'DB.field' AND 'TR.field' != $NULL$) You should rather use something like this: ('field' != 'DB.field') If you like to perform the check only if the field has been changed to

Re: How to verify if the current value entering exists on the database

2006-08-28 Thread Thad Esser
** Misi, You beat me to it. :-) I think the common misconception here is the belief that the TR value will have a value only if the field changed, which isn't true. If the field is part of a push fields action, then TR.field will have a value regardless if it has changed or not. You can see

Re: How to verify if the current value entering exists on the dat abase

2006-08-28 Thread McKenzie, James J C-E LCMC HQISEC/L3
** Thad: I take that you checked this. I was under the impression that the TR.fieldname value was only set if the field was actually changed. This will make a difference in the way that I write workflow from now on. One thing is that I avoid touching the database as much as possible.

Re: ARS 7 + Oracle 10gR2 = Can Not Install ARS

2006-08-28 Thread McKenzie, James J C-E LCMC HQISEC/L3
Title: RE: ARS 7 + Oracle 10gR2 = Can Not Install ARS ** Stephen: ORACLE_BASE also should be set if you are working with the 10g clients. James McKenzie -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Heider,

Re: How to verify if the current value entering exists on the database

2006-08-28 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
I guess that you can use the TR-value if you like, but is usually not required. You could use either of these syntaxes with the same result: ('field' != 'DB.filed' AND 'field' != $NULL$) ('field' != 'DB.filed' AND 'TR.field' != $NULL$) Depending on what client and version you are useing, fields

Re: How to verify if the current value entering exists on the database

2006-08-28 Thread Thad Esser
** I first learned about the TR.field having a value in a push fields during a PTT class, and always accepted it, but had never fully investigated it (via SQL logs) until just before I posted, so yeah, I did check it. Some other things to keep in mind... When ARS gets the DB value it is using

Re: How to verify if the current value entering exists on the dat abase

2006-08-28 Thread McKenzie, James J C-E LCMC HQISEC/L3
Title: RE: How to verify if the current value entering exists on the database ** Misi: Thank you for the clarification of DB.field vice field and access to the database. Looks like the proper use of indexing is paramount for performance. James McKenzie L-3 GSI -Original Message-

Fwd: How to verify if the current value entering exists on the database

2006-08-28 Thread Addis Solomon
** Thank you all, you guys are great help!!!Jerry, I think you confused me with somebody else.God blessNote: forwarded message attached. All-new Yahoo! Mail - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster. __20060125___This posting was submitted with