Re: arslist Digest - 13 Sep 2007 (#2007-406)

2007-09-14 Thread O'Connor, Hugh R
Ww - Original Message - From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) arslist@ARSLIST.ORG To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri Sep 14 00:00:00 2007 Subject: arslist Digest - 13 Sep 2007 (#2007-406) html body

JOBS :: Urgent :: Roles in the UK

2007-09-14 Thread Rachel Kerwick
Dear List I hope you are all well. I have a number of opportunities in the UK (London and the South East) for experienced consultants with ITSM v7 and CMDB 2.0. Though my clients are open to v6 experienced consultants. These roles are a mixture of contract and permanent with asap start dates.

Re: nextID Increment

2007-09-14 Thread Noseworthy, Alex
Ok, we have decided to use the API to see if we can accomplish our task, the next problem is how to fix the nextID number for some of the entries. My predecessor was handling the nextID value by storing it in another table outside the remedy tables and handling the increments himself, this

Can a qualification be included in a Submit template

2007-09-14 Thread Shrestha, Manjari R.
Hello List, I have a .Net application which sends an e-mail template once the Customers (who do not have access to remedy) complete the Survey to E-mail Engine. I am using a submit action in the template. Is there a way to put in a qualification in the submit template that will see if the

Re: Can a qualification be included in a Submit template

2007-09-14 Thread Heider, Stephen
Manjari, One approach to accomplish your goal is with a web application. The email would post to the web app. The web app would lookup the Request ID in Remedy. If the Request ID is valid, then proceed with the submit to the Survey form. If not, then display a message to the user. I use

Running into issues when using the Remedy .NET API script against ARS 7.01 / ITSM 7.02

2007-09-14 Thread Lammey, Peter A.
We are in the process of developing and testing a .NET API script against our ARS 7.01 / ITSM 7.02 and some of the commands seem to work but when we run the script the command returns Error(623) Authentication failed error. When attempting this command: EntryId =

ITSM 7: On-Call and Shift Functionality question

2007-09-14 Thread Rabi Tripathi
Somebody please explain to me the On-Call Group flag on CTM:SupportGroup form. This is what I understand: 1)If the flag is set, there is always corresponding record(s) in CTM:Support Group OnCall form of type individual or group. 2)If a group is flagged as on call, only pager notification as

Re: How you you guys analyze ITSM 7 code? Dev Plus? Master AR Suite? No logging doesn't count.

2007-09-14 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Microsoft does practically own the O/S market, the spreadsheet/word processor market, and a few others, but they primarily do best when it comes to desktop related applications. Apache is more widely used than IIS. Oracle is a more respected product than SQL Server. Exchange usage is growing,

Re: Can a qualification be included in a Submit template

2007-09-14 Thread Shrestha, Manjari R.
Stephen, The problem I have is that the .NET database and the Remedy database will not be residing at the same network. That way I do not see how the web application can update remedy database. Unfortunately we do not have mid-tier and are not web enabled. Manjari New to Remedy:-).

Re: ITSM 7: On-Call and Shift Functionality question

2007-09-14 Thread Rabi Tripathi
If (2) below is true, then for OnCall groups, at times people don't want pages, that group's members won't be notified through regular means like email. That would be weird. - ... 2)If a group is flagged as on call, only pager notification as per OnCall settings are sent on assignment, not

Re: Running into issues when using the Remedy .NET API script against ARS 7.01 / ITSM 7.02

2007-09-14 Thread Heider, Stephen
Peter, Here is something to try. BTW, I am using a slightly newer version of BMC.ARSystem.dll, v7.0.2523.16350. objArSystemPub.SetServerPort(CInt(pRemedyPort), CInt(pRemedyRPCProgramNum) ' Try running this before Login() to see if it makes a difference.

Re: Can a qualification be included in a Submit template

2007-09-14 Thread Rabi Tripathi
Manjari, Use workflow to build your logic. Put a filter on survey form that will check to make sure ticket number exists in your ticket form, else throw error. Alternative: Generally, when building an interface like this one, I like building an interface form, which would be very similar to the

Re: How you you guys analyze ITSM 7 code? Dev Plus? Master AR Suite? No logging doesn't count.

2007-09-14 Thread Kaiser Norm E CIV USAF 96 CS/SCCE
I'm surprised so much misconception about Microsoft products still exists. Microsoft is crushing the competition. Apache is more widely used than IIS. True for the moment, but industry analysts expect Microsoft to finally overtake Apache in 2008. In June 2005, Apache owned 69.7% of the market

Re: ITSM 7: On-Call and Shift Functionality question

2007-09-14 Thread john rosquist
Yes, your observation that the system in incoherant is correct. Though the problem goes deeper than you indicate. At the person (people form) you cannot modify your global notification preferences. You can only add to notification records to your person/notification record (and then change

Re: Email Template Creation

2007-09-14 Thread Shellman, David
A notify filter creates records in the AR System Email Messages form. For certain forms we have actually had to bypass the Notify filter and use a push fields to the AR System Email Messages form. The notify filter action trims data to 256 characters on the To: field portion of the Notify filter.

Re: Ticket Reporting - Outside Normal Business Hours (U)

2007-09-14 Thread Julie L Kanakanui JLKANAKA
great searches that will find records based on time criteria and the day piece of the date/time stamp is ignored... I'd be very interested to hear more about such searches if anyone has any! We need to do this also. Thanks, Julie Kanakanui Remedy Administrator/Developer Information

Re: Ticket Reporting - Outside Normal Business Hours (U)

2007-09-14 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Here is an example All tickets created between 5pm and 7am on any day: (( 'Create Date' - 1/1/70) % 86400) = 17 * 3600) AND ((( 'Create Date' - 1/1/70 ) % 86400) = 24 * 3600)) OR 'Create Date' - 1/1/70) % 86400) = 0 * 3600) AND ((( 'Create Date' - 1/1/70 ) % 86400) = 7 * 3600

Re: nextID Increment

2007-09-14 Thread Joe D'Souza
Its hard to guess what exactly you need to be doing unless someone really studies your data, especially the entries that were created externally.. The Request Id is referenced as a primary key in H (status history) and the B (attachments if any) tables. Then you got to know all other

Re: ITSM 7: On-Call and Shift Functionality question

2007-09-14 Thread Rabi Tripathi
John, I believe you are talking about records on NTE:CFG-NotificationEvents form (alias Notification Preferences), which has records of type User added/modified by support staff through their profile-Notifications tab-Update Notification Preferences button-Create or Modify button. I thought I

AR 7.0.1 on Windows 2003 Server and SP2

2007-09-14 Thread Troy Sasso
Hello all, Is there a specific reason why BMC is not mentioning Windows 2003 SP2 in the compatibility matrix or any Windows patch for that matter? How is it running for those of you that have built AR 7.x on Win2003 with SP2? Thanks, Troy

Re: Malloc Erros after Applying 7.0.1 Patch 4 anyone?

2007-09-14 Thread Rick Cook
I have seen REGULAR malloc errors while using both Migrator and Admin since upgrading to patch 4 (clients and server). We had no real choice about upgrading, as it is *supposed* to fix a number of critical issues that were in patch 2/3. Windows/SQL platform. Rick _ From: Action

Re: AR 7.0.1 on Windows 2003 Server and SP2

2007-09-14 Thread Joe D'Souza
Ran that configuration at more than 2 sites with no problems.. let me rephrase that - with known problems :-) These problems however are platform independent for the most part some of them recognized as software bugs. Joe -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion

Case Sensitive searches

2007-09-14 Thread Shellman, David
I know this has been answered before. My searches just haven't found the answer on the ARS List or BMC/Remedy Support. If I remember correctly, the AR System can be set up on MS SQL in a manner that searches are not case sensitive. If I remembered correctly what steps need to be taken to set up

Re: AR 7.0.1 on Windows 2003 Server and SP2

2007-09-14 Thread Easter, David
Is there a specific reason why BMC is not mentioning Windows 2003 SP2 It is expected that a vendor will retain full backwards compatibility with existing major or minor versions of an operating system when releasing maintenance releases, service packs, patches or other similar level of

Malloc Erros after Applying 7.0.1 Patch 4 anyone?

2007-09-14 Thread Emad Zaky
Hi All, We had an unstable version of Remedy AR Server PAtch 003 which used to crash every few minutes. Patch 004 was recomended and seemed to work, the server was stable. BUT on certain user actions we found the the connection to the user was severed with RPC error appearing to the user and this

Re: Malloc Erros after Applying 7.0.1 Patch 4 anyone?

2007-09-14 Thread Ben Cantatore
I'm currently crashing about once every 2 weeks with stack errors; server dies and recovers within 5 minutes and once in awhile I see malloc errors prior to the crash. I was told that ARServer patch 4 with ITSM patch 5 should correct my issue. So my question to you is what ITSM patch are you

Crystal Report building tips

2007-09-14 Thread Durrant, Michael M. - ITSD
Anyone have any tips for building Crystal Reports for Remedy? I'm having a lot of REALLY WEIRD problems and I'm wondering if I'm crazy or just not doing things the Remedy way. The documentation is very limited. I'm using ARS v7 and Crystal 10. Thanks! Michael The information contained in

Re: Case Sensitive searches

2007-09-14 Thread Rick Cook
SQL is, by default, a case-insensitive DBMS, and has been for the past several versions. I don't even know how to set it up any other way, or why someone would want to. The last major DBMS to not be like this was Oracle - I think 9i was the last one that could not be easily set up

Re: Malloc Erros after Applying 7.0.1 Patch 4 anyone?

2007-09-14 Thread Emad Zaky
InterestingCurrently I am on ITSM Patch 4. Sometimes it recovers on its own and other times restart. On 9/14/07, Ben Cantatore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** I'm currently crashing about once every 2 weeks with stack errors; server dies and recovers within 5 minutes and once in awhile I

Re: Malloc Erros after Applying 7.0.1 Patch 4 anyone?

2007-09-14 Thread Rick Cook
Who can install ITSM patch 5 until they tell us what's in it? I won't. When I asked for the contents, they said they couldn't provide one, and then created a bug against the patch process. (Ya think?) How about fixing the bug in the product manager for letting such an obvious oversight occur?

Re: Case Sensitive searches

2007-09-14 Thread Shellman, David
We're running on Oracle. Asking the question for one of our other divisions that just setting up on MS SQL. So a search for 'field' = bmc should return data where the field was set to BMC, Bmc, or bmc. --Original Message-- From: Rick Cook To: Arslist ReplyTo: Arslist Sent: Sep 14,

Re: Case Sensitive searches

2007-09-14 Thread Rick Cook
Yes, *** IF *** the DB was set up that way. Just because 10G and above CAN be set that way doesn't mean that they WERE set up that way. Talk to your DBAs. Rick _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shellman, David Sent: Friday,

Re: Crystal Report building tips

2007-09-14 Thread Ben Cantatore
If you have specific problems, then list what they are and someone can address that. If you're just fishing for some tips, I have the following: there's an excellent book by George Peck Crystal Reports XI: The Complete Reference

Re: Case Sensitive searches

2007-09-14 Thread Shellman, David
Sorry the question was supposed to be asked for MS SQL instance. --Original Message-- From: Rick Cook To: Arslist ReplyTo: Arslist Sent: Sep 14, 2007 12:52 PM Subject: Re: Case Sensitive searches ** Yes, *** IF *** the DB was set up that way. Just because 10G and above CAN be set that

Re: Crystal Report building tips

2007-09-14 Thread Joe D'Souza
Are you facing any specific problems? I have recently tried building CR's on ARS 7.x but my version of CR was XI. I hadn't faced any show stopping problems. Joe -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Durrant,

Re: Case Sensitive searches

2007-09-14 Thread Shellman, David
One last question and then I'll stick my head back into my monitor. AR System setup on MS SQL would also not require FTS? There maybe additional benefits to FTS but searching character fields greater than 2000 characters on MS SQL still returned results. It was only on Oracle that required FTS

Re: Case Sensitive searches

2007-09-14 Thread Craig Carter
You need to set the collation sequence when installing SQL if you want it to be case sensitive. Otherwise, I believe it defaults to case-insensitive. You can run it as case-insensitive and enforce it as needed, when needed. One method we use is via direct SQL to call stored procedures with

Re: Malloc Erros after Applying 7.0.1 Patch 4 anyone?

2007-09-14 Thread Emad Zaky
I won't touch any more patches. I have been spending more time patching then developing. On 9/14/07, Rick Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Who can install ITSM patch 5 until they tell us what's in it? I won't. When I asked for the contents, they said they couldn't provide one, and

Re: Case Sensitive searches

2007-09-14 Thread Rick Cook
Ah - yes, then. SQL is case-insenstive. Rick _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shellman, David Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 9:56 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Case Sensitive searches Sorry the question was

Re: AR 7.0.1 on Windows 2003 Server and SP2

2007-09-14 Thread Troy Sasso
Thanks Joe!! --- Joe D'Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ran that configuration at more than 2 sites with no problems.. let me rephrase that - with known problems :-) These problems however are platform independent for the most part some of them recognized as software bugs. Joe

Re: Malloc Erros after Applying 7.0.1 Patch 4 anyone?

2007-09-14 Thread Ben Cantatore
I don't mind the server patches so much, but the ITSM ones are painful if you have customizations. Ben Cantatore Remedy Administrator Avon (914) 935-2946 Emad Zaky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) arslist@ARSLIST.ORG 09/14/2007 01:25 PM Please

Re: AR 7.0.1 on Windows 2003 Server and SP2

2007-09-14 Thread Troy Sasso
Why isn't that statement on the cover page to the Compatibility Matrix?? :) Kidding. Thanks David. Troy --- Easter, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a specific reason why BMC is not mentioning Windows 2003 SP2 It is expected that a vendor will retain full backwards

Hey gang!

2007-09-14 Thread Payne, George
Ok...I'm a little buffaloed by this one, but I think I've nailed it down; at least a little bit: Server: 7.0.01 P02 on UNIX ITSM: 7.0 DB: Oracle 10g also on UNIX Users are usually authenticated with their Active Directory credentials when the AR System password is left blank. UserA

Re: Hey gang!

2007-09-14 Thread Ben Cantatore
If you have Crystal Report Designer, I'd bring up the report in crystal and run the report from there with the problematic user's credentials. See if the problem occurs there. Ben Cantatore Remedy Administrator Avon (914) 935-2946 Payne, George [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Action Request

Re: Case Sensitive searches

2007-09-14 Thread Rick Cook
The only remaining useful feature of FTS in a case-insensitive DBMS would be for searching on diary fields. Rick _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shellman, David Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 10:19 AM To:

Re: Case Sensitive searches

2007-09-14 Thread Shellman, David
My understanding is that with the newer version of FTS, the search is also supposed to work with attachments. Thanks, Dave From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Cook Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007

Re: Ticket Reporting - Outside Normal Business Hours (U)

2007-09-14 Thread Julie L Kanakanui JLKANAKA
This works great! Thanks so much, Julie Kanakanui Remedy Administrator/Developer Information Technology Services University of North Carolina at Greensboro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Grooms, Frederick W [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) arslist@ARSLIST.ORG

Re: arsystem.tar error installing as non-root

2007-09-14 Thread Axton
You have to make sure that /etc/rpc was updated with the proper program numbers if installing as non-root. Take a look in the install script and see where it attempts to upack the tar file. It could be that the user has no permissions to the location where the tar is being unpacked. It may also

ADM: ARSlist Awards: Nominations Still Open

2007-09-14 Thread Daniel Bloom
The following are not strictly speaking for postings or work on the ARSlist. Rather it is the ARSlist members choosing their favorite 3rd party applications, free or commercial. The Free ones certainly fall into the same area of community work as the posting to the ARSlist ones do, and

arsystem.tar error installing as non-root

2007-09-14 Thread Dwayne Martin
Hello Everyone, I am upgrading our Linux AR Server from 7.0.1 to 7.1 as non-root. (Oracle 10.2 db) Everything went OK till the very end when I got: * * * ./ar_install : Unable to extract the product files from the CDROM file arsystem/linux/arsystem.tar * * * The message referred me to two

Re: Hey gang!

2007-09-14 Thread Payne, George
Hey Ben, Good suggestion. Running a report directly from Crystal Report Designer does NOT cause problems. I'm prompted for the user's credentials in the ARSystem ODBC driver and it accepts them just fine. Does the ARSystem cache the user's password somewhere to use when running a

Re: Ticket Reporting - Outside Normal Business Hours (U)

2007-09-14 Thread Ben Cantatore
There's two ways you can do this: 1 - Have those formulas equate to a true/false return and in the main report select criteria use something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] in [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] = true (or false depending on your needs) 2 - In your main select

Re: Ticket Reporting - Outside Normal Business Hours (U)

2007-09-14 Thread Hennigan, Sandra H CTR OSD-CIO
UNCLASSIFIED Do you know of a way to wildcard the date so that I can report on all of last month's after hours tickets? Sandra Hennigan OSD Enterprise Remedy Administrator Office # 703-602-2525 x251 Apparently, there is nothing that cannot happen today. Mark Twain -Original Message-

Re: arsystem.tar error installing as non-root

2007-09-14 Thread Joe D'Souza
What is the error you are getting during the install??? Joe -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dwayne Martin Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 2:08 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: arsystem.tar error installing as

Re: arsystem.tar error installing as non-root

2007-09-14 Thread Mac McMillan
Yes, before you execute the install, run this command to tell the install you are installing as non-root export ARNONROOTINSTALL=TRUE Have good weekend. ==Mac On 9/14/07, Dwayne Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Everyone, I am upgrading our Linux AR Server from 7.0.1 to 7.1 as non-root.

Goodbye and thanks for the ride.

2007-09-14 Thread Sean Cundiff
Goodbye All, After many years of using the AR system we've decided to switch to a product that fits our needs (and budget) better. I've been a long time lurker and a sometimes contributer (many years ago) to this list. Thanks for such a great resource! Thanks for the ride! Sean

ADM: ARSlist Awards : BMCSoftware Remedy Employee Beyond the Call of Duty Award

2007-09-14 Thread Daniel Bloom
This Award is special, and possibly more important than ever. It is only given out when a BMC Remedy Employee has been nominated and voted on by the list, which doesn't happen every year. Leonard Warren won twice, 5 years apart. He has an ongoing commitment not to just educate us about

Re: Crystal Report building tips

2007-09-14 Thread Durrant, Michael M. - ITSD
The main problem I have is this Column not found: Security_Request error when I try to run the report out of Remedy. I can preview in Crystal with no problems.I have set the Use underscores option in my ODBC driver. Ben, does your report still work when called from the Remedy interface?

Re: Configuring SLM Business Time Calendar\Holidays

2007-09-14 Thread Vincent Ong
You need to refer to the ARS 7x Configuring Guide under the Business Time section. Thank you, Vincent Ong _ From: Emad Zaky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 4:51 PM Subject: Configuring SLM Business Time Calendar\Holidays ** Hi All, Can anyone

Re: Hey gang!

2007-09-14 Thread strauss
From our knowledgebase: Problem Remedy reports will not run if there is a semi-colon in the user password Solution The Remedy ODBC driver used to execute a Crystal Report from the Remedy application will consider a semi-colon to mark the end of the password, and only a partial password will be

Re: Ticket Reporting - Outside Normal Business Hours (U)

2007-09-14 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Just add additional criteria for the date (('Create Date' = 08/01/2007) AND ('Create Date' 09/01/2007)) AND ... If you are doing this in a Macro change 08/01/2007 to $Start Date$ and 09/01/2007 to $End Date$ so it will prompt you Fred -Original Message- From: Action Request System

Re: Ticket Reporting - Outside Normal Business Hours (U)

2007-09-14 Thread Hennigan, Sandra H CTR OSD-CIO
UNCLASSIFIED Thank you; I will give it a try. Sandra Hennigan OSD Enterprise Remedy Administrator Office # 703-602-2525 x251 Apparently, there is nothing that cannot happen today. Mark Twain -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL

BMC Support

2007-09-14 Thread Warren Baltimore
Question to my fellow Fasttrack support people. How would you rate the current service that you are getting from BMC? Has anybody had trouble getting to a US technician when you have a problem understanding the overseas tech? -- Warren R. Baltimore II Remedy Developer UW Medicine IT Services

Re: BMC Support

2007-09-14 Thread Shellman, David
Warren, For the most part it's not been an issue. We have gotten a couple lately that have been tough. We worked through it though. There have been other times though that even when the tech was a US person we had to escalate the issue through the sales rep as all we were doing was going in

Re: Hey gang!

2007-09-14 Thread john rosquist
There are two places to check. One is in the ODBC driver.(be sure the 2 middle options are checked). Second the report can be written to store the user's credientials. Be sure to disable this, if it is there. john - Original Message From: Payne, George [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: BMC Support

2007-09-14 Thread Smith, Ron
Warren, I feel your pain. I had an issue with setting up the Email Engine for Incoming emails. It would just stop for no apparent reason. I was using the MAPI protocol and Outlook 2000 as the mail client on the server. I was told that all of the engineers for Email Engine were in India. When

Re: Goodbye and thanks for the ride.

2007-09-14 Thread Rick Cook
Bye, Sean. Glad you could be with us for a while. Best of luck with your new product. Rick _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean Cundiff Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 11:22 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Goodbye and

Re: Email Template Creation

2007-09-14 Thread Daniel Weise
Susan, We had an issue on this and I conferred with the eMail administrator and apprently there is an option on the SMTP server that can be turned on or off to allow HTML or send mail only in plain text. Daniel Weise Business Systems Las Vegas Valley Water District On Sep 13, 6:18 pm, Susan

Re: ITSM 7: On-Call and Shift Functionality question

2007-09-14 Thread strauss
I am observing the same thing after: 1) Getting TelAlert running, so that you can have command-line paging (I could not get on-call groups to work without it). 2) Creating an on-call group entry for critical tickets in my normal Remedy Support group, and designating my assistant and myself as on

Re: Malloc Erros after Applying 7.0.1 Patch 4 anyone?

2007-09-14 Thread Howard Richter
I am still on the DST patch on production and running fine (Solaris/Oracle) I tried to move to patch 4 in development, but had issues with just moving the binaries (which were not complete). The installer worked, however if at times if we run a Crystal report from the user tool, the arserverd

Re: BMC Support

2007-09-14 Thread Rick Cook
I, too, am feeling your pain. I have opened two issues in the past 2 weeks where the initial responses were beyond silly, they showed a lack of an attempt to even read what I had submitted. I am quite accustomed to listening to the cadence and accent of Indian people speaking English, but still

Re: Hey gang!

2007-09-14 Thread Susan Palmer
You know George ... in the future I might find this information very helpful. I had never heard about the ; issue. But you know what else ... I'll probably never be able to find it because of the thoughtful Subject line you put on the email. Hey gang has what usefulness? I don't apologize for

Re: Malloc Erros after Applying 7.0.1 Patch 4 anyone?

2007-09-14 Thread PC Wai
Hi Howard, Are you on patch 1 still? I am on patch and plan to upgrade to patch 3/4. Regards PC From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Richter Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 12:42 To:

Re: BMC Support

2007-09-14 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Warren, I don't have a lot of trouble getting U.S. support people assigned to my tickets, but the problem I do have is that there are too few of them. Whenever I have ITSM errors it gets assigned to the same few people. I would not be surprised if there are only four people supporting ITSM 7 at

Re: BMC Support

2007-09-14 Thread Susan Palmer
I guess I haven't complained enough about that here. I NEVER get a US tech unless I escalate with mean language. I know there is a US tech in the background and when I get obnoxious ... yes it does happen ... they may out of frustration too ... hand the phone over. That person is there to help

Re: BMC Support

2007-09-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What?? BMC Offers Support... We're on Fasttrack support and have suffered through the same issues. Most of my issues end up in the circle talk issue management flow. My best incident was with a server down issue (high priority). BMC's support agreement states that a server down issue

Re: BMC Support

2007-09-14 Thread Kaiser Norm E CIV USAF 96 CS/SCCE
BMC seems to be trying to save money by replacing the people who know the product with people they can train on the cheap. A classic example of penny wise and pound foolish, IMO. I am going to risk sounding a tad prejudiced by saying this, but I'm going to say it anyway. When will American

Re: BMC Support

2007-09-14 Thread tgaltamore
Hi Warren, The Fast Track support is now an utter farce. We used to have Remedy's Express Support where we were contacted in 4 hours or less, usually far less. Now there are different tears of Fast-Track I am not sure but I think its like this... Low priority tear... whenever or 12

Introduction and EXTERNAL() operator question

2007-09-14 Thread Paul Blasquez
Hello, I am new to Remedy development; a lot of the questions I will have may be very elementary to most of you, but I can assure you I will go through all the pertinent documentation and look through the archives of arslist as well as the remedy forum that I have joined, before I ask here. So,

Re: BMC Support

2007-09-14 Thread Warren Baltimore
The language barrier is a pretty big problem. Some are pretty good (accent wise) othersnot so much. I say this not as an insult to anyone, merely a statement of fact. I really urge everyone to hammer away at the support issues at UserWorld This is getting rediculous for the amount of

Re: BMC Support

2007-09-14 Thread Rick Cook
Thank you, Shawn, for an excellent explanation of the Indian method of customer service - which, according to a nice Indian co-worker who explained this to me once - is to obfuscate and annoy until people give up. That cultural difference is something that must be trained out of Indian technical

7.0.1 Expand Box Bug

2007-09-14 Thread Hall Chad - chahal
I'm hoping for help with a bug in 7.0.1 where the Expand Box is now visible on all Submitter (2), Assigned To (4), and Modified By (5) fields. The installer changed all these fields to 254 characters so they can hold the new longer usernames. The side effect is all these fields that had an Expand

Re: BMC Support

2007-09-14 Thread Shellman, David
I have been in touch with an individual (not Doug) at BMC/Remedy concerning this thread. He called me two or three months ago concerning issues I was seeing in general. I sent him an email about the statement that was in Warren's email. I immediately got a call. I think my finger had barely

Re: ADM: ARSlist Awards : BMCSoftware Remedy Employee Beyond the Call of Duty Award

2007-09-14 Thread tgaltamore
This is so hard to do especially lately. but for years Carmen Villabos, Carrie Rodrieguez., Dave Tutt, Joel Haber, Russ Duley just to name a few, and now someone who I deal with recently Stacy Johnson. are all people I would nominate for always being ready willing and able to go the extra mile.

Re: BMC Support

2007-09-14 Thread Kaiser Norm E CIV USAF 96 CS/SCCE
Bring back Peregrine! -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Cook Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 3:48 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: BMC Support ** Thank you, Shawn, for an excellent explanation of

Re: Query/Menu from Vendor Form? - Resolved

2007-09-14 Thread L. J. Head
You are definitely correctIf you have the 'Sort on Label' box checked it does in fact remove duplicate entries...if that option is unchecked then it doesn't...I had forgotten about that _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe

Re: BMC Support

2007-09-14 Thread William Rentfrow
I've experienced problems with the actual phone connections too between the overseas support and here in the US. At times I simply can not understand the person on the other end of the line due to static and a very, very quiet connection. When I could hear the person it was obvious they were

Re: BMC Support

2007-09-14 Thread Susan Palmer
I've also experienced the very 'quiet' call. I turn my phone volume to the max and can barely hear the sound. We use IP phone and I assume they are too to minimize cost. Of course it could be poor quality headsets or any number of things. They are the only people I have a problem hearing due

Re: ITSM 7: On-Call and Shift Functionality question

2007-09-14 Thread strauss
When I removed the on-call entries from the support group, normal notifications resumed. I tried again with the business hours for the group and the on-call hours carefully set to NOT overlap at all (differ by 00.00.01), and with on-call defined (and the flag set per pg. 180 in the config guide)

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Re: Goodbye and thanks for the ride.

2007-09-14 Thread Shafqat Ayaz
Sean have fun in whatever you do. Good Luck with the new product. By the way what is it? Shafqat Ayaz Break the Rules, Forgive Quickly, Kiss Slowly, Love Truly, Laugh Uncontrollably, And Never Regret anything that made you Smile.. - Original Message From: Sean Cundiff [EMAIL

Re: BMC Support

2007-09-14 Thread Rick Cook
Well, I was no fan of P-tui-erigrine, but let's compare. Peregrine was quickly and intentionally trying to destroy Remedy. BMC seems to be doing it slowly and unintentionally. From a strictly logical perspective, if the effect is the same, does the motive or the reason really matter? If I

Re: GSA Schedule

2007-09-14 Thread Joel D. Sender
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Re: BMC Support

2007-09-14 Thread Rick Cook
That's great, Dave. Perhaps BMC could restore some of the information they USED to have on the support site regarding escalation manager contact points. I know most of the ones they used to have, but who knows who's still there any more. If some of what we're saying here is based on false

Re: BMC Support

2007-09-14 Thread Shellman, David
I forwarded you email on. In our earlier conversation be said that he would be at User World. I agree we need to have some faith restored. That was what lead to our intial conversation. Again it came about through our sales rep. We've have been lucky at times there. We have lost him again

Question - ITSM 7 Data Migration

2007-09-14 Thread Eli Schilling
Hello listers... I am currently in the process of trying to build a job to migrate data from ITSM 6.3 to ITSM 7.01 Patch 05. We use SQL on the back end so I am going through mapping HelpDesk, Change and SLA along with SHR:Association in order to maintain relationships. I was just curious if

Re: BMC Support

2007-09-14 Thread john rosquist
There is another model that BMC is selling now. Have anyone tried ONLY getting your support from a 3rd party, partner? 2/3rds of the time ther person speek english and is increadibly sharp. The other third they speak great english. Best of all they escalate to remedy engineering for you and

Re: BMC Support

2007-09-14 Thread Susan Palmer
And Tom ... when you make the point that they are pushing customers to find a partner for support ... you have to remember the partner has to HAVE BMC PERMISSION to do their job for them. You cannot just change who you get support from without BMC PERMISSION. I find it totally against all

Re: BMC Support

2007-09-14 Thread Veronica Soriano
My experience recently with Support of Migrator is going in the same direction as Warrens. I've answered the same questions over and over again. I've been sent in directions to resolve the issue with solutions for a version of AR Server that is not installed and won't be installed. The issue