Re: Daylight Savings for USA 2007

2006-10-31 Thread Jarl Grøneng
From 7.0.1 release note, page 43: Compliance for 2007 Daylight Savings Time changes AR System 7.0.01 will recognize the change in Daylight Savings Time in 2007. -- Jarl On 11/1/06, John Whistler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Since daylight savings will be extended in 2007 by 5 weeks, has anyone a

Re: Table Field Qualification

2006-10-31 Thread John Kelley
Restated: If I log into remedy, as a support staff member of Help Desk. I should see a table of Calls that were Auto-Assigned to the Helpdesk with no particular assignee.Or another way to say it, is "My groups unassigned calls" I'm also not sure what form to grab from HPD:Heldesk or SHR:Conso

Re: Daylight Savings for USA 2007

2006-10-31 Thread Rick cook
Remedy has stated that they plan to have something in place before next March to better deal with the time change situation(s). I don't know what that will be. Rick -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Whistle

Daylight Savings for USA 2007

2006-10-31 Thread John Whistler
Since daylight savings will be extended in 2007 by 5 weeks, has anyone already looked at any possible impacts to Remedy? _ Get FREE company branded e-mail accounts and business Web site from Microsoft Office Live http://clk.atdmt.

Job: Remedy Developer Required in Australia - 1 year contract available

2006-10-31 Thread McLean, Tayler
Title: Job: Remedy Developer Required in Australia - 1 year contract available ** We have an opening for a senior Remedy developer in either Melbourne or Sydney, Australia.  This will be a one year contract with an option to extend beyond that.  The developer will be providing 3rd level su

Reading data from XL spreadsheet (OLE)

2006-10-31 Thread Chris Abell
Hi all I'm looking for information on reading values from a spreadsheet (in an attachment field) and storing them in predetermined fields. There's only one record to worry about (the current one) and the values will be stored in known cell references. I've managed to muddle my way through OLE

Re: Table Field Qualification

2006-10-31 Thread Axton
Can you restate the following? Then maybe we can help. "shows Unassigned HPD and CHG requests, for only the person that is logged into Remedy User" Observations: - an unassigned ticket is an unassigned ticket, regardless of who is looking at it - unassigned to a group? an individual? both? Axt

Re: CMDB Classes

2006-10-31 Thread David Sanders
Title: RE: CMDB Classes ** Hi Robert   Thanks for the comments – it IS fun.   Thread # 1 – remember, individuals can be ITIL certified (which I think you’re referring to), but so can toolsets (like ITSM 5.5 and ESS).  They are separate certification processes.  And having gone through t

How do I submit an entry using pyARS?

2006-10-31 Thread Marc Nations
** Hello All,   I was wondering if anyone could show me some sample code of pyARS performing an ARCreateEntry(). I can not figure out how to configure the fieldList.   The input is supposed to be a tuple of (ID,value) pairs. The problem is when the call is made the helper function that is supposed

Table Field Qualification

2006-10-31 Thread John Kelley
Hello all. AR Server 6.03 Helpdesk App 6.0 Having trouble with a Qualification: I'm trying to create a table on my support form that only shows Unassigned HPD and CHG requests, for only the person that is logged into Remedy User. Any suggestion? _

Re: How to reflect a new line in an HTML format?

2006-10-31 Thread Balaji Giri
Hi paul, were you able to get a solution for the issue you had circulated in the arslist. regards balaji ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are"

Re: How to reflect a new line in an HTML format?

2006-10-31 Thread Balaji Giri
Hello All, I am trying to replace a new line character in a character field using a set fields action in remedy and while doing so the entire field gets replaced with blank . i have tried all solution in the arslist but no help REPLACE($Short Description$, RIGHT(" ", 2), "") REPLACE($Short D

Re: CMDB Classes

2006-10-31 Thread Robert Molenda
Title: RE: CMDB Classes ** OK, I’ll chime in on this thread, because it is mixing subjects, and honestly both of them are FUN.   THREAD # 1 (not real topic) ITIL “Certification” is just that. Certification ON THEORY. A theory of PROCESSES. Just because you are an ITIL SHOP, you do not ne

Re: CMDB Classes

2006-10-31 Thread McKenzie, James J C-E LCMC HQISEC/L3
Title: RE: CMDB Classes ** David:   You have a valid point.  I would consider ITSM 5.6 compliant (it was basically a rework of 5.5 to move BMC's fields out of the user number range) and ITSM 6.0 not.   Getting the CMDB compliant may take major effort on BMCs part.   James McKenzie L-3 GSI  

Re: CMDB Classes

2006-10-31 Thread David Sanders
Title: RE: CMDB Classes ** James   No.  The bit I am objecting to is your assertion that going to one class (or two classes or 1000 classes) will make it not ITIL compliant.  This is not true.   One other point.  The only version of Remedy ITSM that I can find that is ITIL certified is

Re: CMDB Classes

2006-10-31 Thread McKenzie, James J C-E LCMC HQISEC/L3
Title: RE: CMDB Classes ** David:   I think that you now understand what I was trying to get at.  If you have a homogeneous environment, you can use one and only one class.  Otherwise you should use only those classes you need.  No Java programs, no need for J2SEE classes.  No database server,

Re: BMC Support(less)

2006-10-31 Thread Sanford, Claire
** You are not alone...   Granted we switched from Express to Basic... but the support staff shouldn't be any less smart... should they?   Gotta love management... we switched because I didn't ask for much support Now I'm in the middle of an upgrade, need more support and it isn't as good

Re: CMDB Classes

2006-10-31 Thread David Sanders
Title: RE: CMDB Classes ** James   There are about 40 ITIL certified toolsets on the market, each of which will have its own CMDB which is ITIL certified and based on ‘ITIL best practices’.  They will all have very different structures.  Remedy’s Atrium CMDB is not THE CMDB, it is an exam

Re: BMC Support(less) (licensing)

2006-10-31 Thread Tony Worthington
Hmmm... Maybe now is the time when I chime in about my licensing ticket submitted on the 23rd.. which is still sitting in the "New" state with no response or activity... -tony -- Tony Worthington [EMAIL PROTECTED] 262-703-5911 "Meyer, Jennifer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "Action Reques

Re: BMC Support(less)

2006-10-31 Thread Meyer, Jennifer
Erm, it appears Doug Mueller is watching the list avidly. When he saw my last post, he sent an email to Remedy licensing, which triggered both an email and a phone call to my desk while I was in an office costume competition. The moral of the story--Don't whine unless you really want Doug to do s

Losing screen shots

2006-10-31 Thread Darrel Fosset
We have several pop3 incoming email accounts that remedy reads and processes. The problem we are having is that if a user takes a screen shot and pastes it into the email then the screen shot will get lost in translation of the email in remedy. Attachments work fine if they make a file of the

Re: Crystal 11

2006-10-31 Thread Don McClure
** Lisa,   This package *should* respond to the 'Reports' menu item within each console, e.g. Change, Problem, Incident, SLM, Asset.  I do not have our system completely configured at the moment, and reporting capability has not been heavily used here on campus--yet.   Short answer--a separate ve

Re: CMDB Classes

2006-10-31 Thread McKenzie, James J C-E LCMC HQISEC/L3
Title: RE: CMDB Classes ** David:   So I've been told.   I believe that the CMDB is based upon best practices through ITIL.  However that being said, if you reduce the CMDB down to one class you defeat the purpose of having one, unless you have only one type of device in it.  In my case, I wo

Re: CMDB Classes

2006-10-31 Thread David Sanders
Title: RE: CMDB Classes ** James   That is not true.  ITIL does not say anything about how you should structure your CMDB or classify your CIs. ITIL defines terminology, suggests roles and gives general guidance on best-practice for certain processes, like who can modify CI records, appro

Re: BMC Support(less)

2006-10-31 Thread Wilson, Harry
Title: RE: BMC Support(less) ** At times when I'm on hold, I get the feeling I am playing Musical ACDs (like Musical Chairs).  The hold music changes every 60 seconds, giving me the feeling like I have been routed to the next Call Center's hold queue.  I agree that the quality of information p

Re: Crystal 11

2006-10-31 Thread Kemes, Lisa
** So how can I play with it?  (We are new to Crystal).  Do I need to download a version of Crystal reports to use these components?   Thanks!   Lisa From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Don McClureSent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 2:54

Re: Crystal 11

2006-10-31 Thread Don McClure
** Lisa,   These are the Crystal Report components of the 7.0.x User Tool.  The size as installed on my machine is running 228.00MB.   Welcome to the wonderful world of 7.0...   Don McClure, P.E. Systems Engineer University of North Texas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** >>> "Kemes, Lisa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Crystal 11

2006-10-31 Thread Kemes, Lisa
Title: RE: CMDB Classes ** Hello fellow listers!    Not sure when this was downloaded (with User/Admin 6.3 or User/Admin 7.0.1), but now I have a 200+ MB item in my add/remove programs called Crystal11_Redistributables.  I would like to test this out, but can't get to it anywhere (Program F

Re: QUESTION: MENU - NOT LIKE

2006-10-31 Thread McKenzie, James J C-E LCMC HQISEC/L3
Title: RE: QUESTION: MENU - NOT LIKE ** Thad:   Thank you for the clarification.  I will add that if you are looking for items in a Push/Set Fields within a filter, you can force a table scan by using LIKE rather than another qualifier (equals, greater, less than.)  Again, if you have NOT inde

Re: CMDB Classes

2006-10-31 Thread McKenzie, James J C-E LCMC HQISEC/L3
Title: RE: CMDB Classes ** Kevin: You can go to one class, but that will not be ITIL complaint and may make matters worse. James McKenzie L-3 GSI   -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Kevin Shaffer Sent

Re: BMC Support(less)

2006-10-31 Thread Meyer, Jennifer
Been trying to upgrade an arsystem.lic file on the support site for a couple days. When I attach the license file, I receive the following highly informative and useful error message: Filter/escalation 'set field' process returned an error. [ARERR 38] ;-/ Jennifer Meyer Remedy Support Engineer

Re: Remedy Support Site - Fixed? Endless Loop

2006-10-31 Thread McKenzie, James J C-E LCMC HQISEC/L3
Title: RE: Remedy Support Site - Fixed? Endless Loop ** Bob:   Service Help Desk for the EnterpriseAnd ARS is there, you have to look for it.  Welcome to the new way of doing business.   James McKenzie L-3 GSI From: Action Request System discussion lis

Re: BMC Support(less)

2006-10-31 Thread McKenzie, James J C-E LCMC HQISEC/L3
Title: RE: BMC Support(less) ** Richard:   Support has not been offshored as much as it has been automated.  I am very pleased when I get a human on the phone with the quality of service provided by BMC.   James McKenzie L-3 GSI   From: Action Request Syst

Re: Remedy developers required for MNC in Mumbai - INDIA.

2006-10-31 Thread Tim Richardson
** Hello Ananthakrishnan,   I am Tim Richardson, of Remedy Edge, LLC.  I currently have three developers on staff, two located in Hyderabad and one located in Pune.  I also have a Remedy API programmer (also in Hyderabad)   If you are open to a sub-contract arrangement, please let me know.  

Re: CMDB Classes

2006-10-31 Thread Tim Richardson
** Hi Kevin,   We are also rolling out ITSM 7.02 and here's some thoughts about the consolidation of everything into one class:   Certain discovery tools...when integrated through EIE are pre-configured to pump their data into the appropriate classes...so...a tool like Marimba would pump a Serv

Re: multiple attachments in pool on mid tier? (solved, kinda)

2006-10-31 Thread Anderson, Douglas W.
Title: Re: multiple attachments in pool on mid tier? (solved, kinda) ** Hi Craig, OK, I know I said I was gonna drop the investigation because it was not my application but you were SO positive about it that I could not resist exploring further. In case it was a browser thing (had only tri

Re: BMC Support(less)

2006-10-31 Thread Rick Cook
** When I get someone from the actual support center in CA, the help has been very good.  God help me if I ever have to depend on the overseas support centers for a critical issue, though - I haven't seen that competency at work there.  All I have ever received from them are pleasant platitudes tha

BMC Support(less)

2006-10-31 Thread Richard Crosby
** Wonderful,   Opened a few tickets with BMC support and getting very canned/scripted responses back that provide little-no-help. I’m so glad support has been offshored…:/   Anyone else seeing this or is just my bitter self?   Richard __20060125___This posti

Re: How to pass parameters to jsp file?

2006-10-31 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
** Quick and dirty answer ... use the request.getParameter function of JSP   http://server/arsys/shared/changerequestform.jsp?ID=123456    (additional parameters would be passed as ¶m2=b¶m3=c )   changerequestform.jsp file:              "/>   If you want you can define variables to ho

Re: QUESTION: MENU - NOT LIKE

2006-10-31 Thread Thad Esser
** This thread is about Menus and in that context what James says is true. However, because you (Guillermo) used the phrase "Run If" in your email, it makes me think that you are thinking of Active Links and Filters (or maybe Escalations).  Since Active Links and Filters basically operate on indi

CMDB Classes

2006-10-31 Thread Kevin Shaffer
We are rolling out ITSM 7.x in 5 weeks and the last major hurdle we have in our UAT is CMDB. The feedback from our users and management is the 68 classes are too confusing and they want to simplify. I recommended getting the list to 10-15 classes, they went the extreme and said they want one

Re: Remedy Support Site - Fixed? Endless Loop

2006-10-31 Thread Bob Rowe
** This morning while trying to get to the knowledge base area of the support site, I got an error saying I was logged on from another location while I was not. When I got irritated enough by that after a number of tries, I attempted to submit a ticket. Under products, there was no mention of the A

Re: How to pass parameters to jsp file?

2006-10-31 Thread George Tsai
** Hi Fred, The issue here is how to pass the parameters from the url to the jsp file.  We use jsp file because we don't want to show the username and password on the url.  Example url: http://server/arsys/shared/changerequestform.jsp Example changerequestform.jsp file: vhc"/> :BULK:Reque

Re: How to pass parameters to jsp file?

2006-10-31 Thread George Tsai
** Hi Eric, Very interesting I will try it. Thanks. George Tsai IT Systems Architecture - Process Automation Initiatives Walgreens Co. 847-914-5210 "Eric Cleereman (IT)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)" 10/27/2006 02:56 PM Please respond

Re: CMDB/DSL - Cleaning Up Product Dictionary Entries

2006-10-31 Thread Colleen M. Eilbert
When the PDL updates are shipped, the data gets loaded into staging forms initially (PDL:ESID:xxx) and from there is pushed to the forms that are actually leveraged by the ITSM suite. There is logic on the staging forms to create relationships and other necessary stuff. If you were willing to

Remedy Support Site - Fixed? Endless Loop

2006-10-31 Thread Heider, Stephen
I just logged into the Remedy support site and proceeded to submit a new Issue. I received an error message "You may not submit an Issue directly to BMC Support. Please contact your Support Channel (WIPRO LIMITED) to have them submit an Issue on your behalf (ARERR 356226)". Ok, no problem, I will

Re: CMDB 2.0

2006-10-31 Thread Chris Rom
There are supposed to be some extension packs from BMC as well as other vendors. Have you checked with BMC ? Some of the come with other applications that integrate with Remedy such a network/server monitoring. Rgds, Chris __

Multiple LDAP Connections 6.0.1

2006-10-31 Thread Joe Burns
** Is it possiable to connect to more then one LDAP source from a 6.0.1 server? I have users logging on from 2 different domains that need to authenticate to seperate  servers. How would I set this up on the Remedy side? Access over 1 million songs - Yahoo! Music Unlimited Try it today. __200601

Re: QUESTION: MENU - NOT LIKE

2006-10-31 Thread McKenzie, James J C-E LCMC HQISEC/L3
Title: RE: QUESTION: MENU - NOT LIKE ** Alfredo:   Yes.  LIKE will force a full table scan as you are looking for part of a word.  HOWEVER, that being said, Group is much different as the text value is converted into a numeric and then searched for.  This may NOT force a table scan but I don't

Re: Upgrading and switching platforms at the same time

2006-10-31 Thread McKenzie, James J C-E LCMC HQISEC/L3
Title: RE: Upgrading and switching platforms at the same time ** Axton: Don't have an answer to your question.  I think this is one for the folks at BMC. James McKenzie L-3 GSI   -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG]

Re: CMDB/DSL - Cleaning Up Product Dictionary Entries

2006-10-31 Thread Chris Rom
Michael, I am in the same boat as you and I am sure many other people are as well. BMC boasts of 10,000+ entries in the DSL which is marketing. As you have noticed many of the entries are pretty useless as they are freeware, shareware or outdated (DOS, Win95, Win98) applications. One option ma

Re: Alternate solutions to replace Palm Link for Asset Count

2006-10-31 Thread Menachem, Sharon
Michiel, You hit the nail on the head with your second option - I will take a look at Aeroprise. Thanks, Sharon -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michiel Beijen Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 2:33 PM To: ar

Re: EIE 7.0 Issues ("hanging" + API Error)

2006-10-31 Thread Cindy Sapochetti
Hi Kelly - Thanks. EIE.cfg was actually set to 5 minutes before I started having these issues. Set it to 1 to see if I could get something more kicked off, and backed it out to 200 to see if things would "catch up". Starting and stopping the service did nothing. Only thing that enabled e

Re: Alternate solutions to replace Palm Link for Asset Count

2006-10-31 Thread Michiel Beijen
Sharon, Your e-mail was not really clear to me; what are you trying to achieve? If you want to discover assets on your network (wired infrastructure) you could try using a discovery tool, such as Microsoft SMS or BMC Discovery Express and loading the results in AST:Asset. If you would like to us

Alternate solutions to replace Palm Link for Asset Count

2006-10-31 Thread Menachem, Sharon
**   We are interested in replacing the Palm Link to count our company inventory.   We don't have a wireless infrastructure and need to perform the count with a wired infrastructure.    We do not have the Asset module but are using the AST:Asset form to hold the companies fixed assets.  

Re: DSO Mapping

2006-10-31 Thread Mohanad K. Younis
Hi Fabien, Note: bellow steps are theoretical and logical and hopefully it will work with you smoothly. Good luck. Try this, remove the alias name of the second new server (remedyservb) and restart the server. Don't forget to update mapping of the Load-Balancer server to point to remedyservb.

Crystal X - issue with inconsistent results

2006-10-31 Thread Dave Barber
** All,We're running Crystal X against our AR servers, got an issue with a report that gives inconsistent results against a (relatively) static data set.First time you run the report, it comes up with the wrong results.  If I then either add a blank line or remove a blank line from the formula bein

Re: Capture Path of Document (File Chooser)

2006-10-31 Thread Michiel Beijen
Check the thread "Set path from local PC" from last July. You can look this up using the archives at http://www.arslist.org or you could try an aggregation site as Nabble: http://www.nabble.com/ARS-%28Action-Request-System%29-f716.html Kind regards, Michiel On 10/30/06, Rolf Cooke <[EMAIL PROTE