Automate Import along with Ticket Information

2008-09-22 Thread Rsha
Folks I have a scenario here in my current assignment, which is hampering the progress of other dependencies coz of this. Well, here it is… I have to open a ticket from a trouble ticket form where there is an attachment field, the technician shall attach a file (CSV) with only one column

Re: Regarding Unicode database

2008-09-22 Thread anil RAI
Hi Joe, I am getting . Thanks Anil --- On Mon, 22/9/08, Joe DeSouza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Joe DeSouza [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Regarding Unicode database To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Date: Monday, 22 September, 2008, 11:02 AM ** What do you mean by data does not display in a

Re: libwebservice.sl error

2008-09-22 Thread Jiri Pospisil
++ Please Read The Disclaimer At The Bottom Of This Email ++ Atul, this is a guess as you did not provide information on the environment where the server is running. I have seen such error

ARERR (91) RPC call failed: RPC: Can't encode arguments

2008-09-22 Thread Jay Sytangco
Hi All, I just wanted to ask what causing ARERR (91) RPC call failed. I have one user who's been experiencing this error when trying to save a form. When I tried using his machine, login to Remedy User and tried to save a ticket, I did not experienced the error. When he's turn to try it again,

Re: ARERR (91) RPC call failed: RPC: Can't encode arguments

2008-09-22 Thread Sharon-Michal Mamon-Meged
Is it on a machine with new windows installation ? Best Regards, sharon mamon-meged AR System administrator phone : 972-3-9165229 moblie : 050-9165229 Jay Sytangco

Timeout Error

2008-09-22 Thread Viji.PK
Hi All, There is one user action in our home grown remedy system, such it executes for 3 to 3.5 minutes. The operation is successfully completed by the database, but user gets an Time out Error message (ARERR 92), before even he realises the succesfull completion. Is there any setting on the

Re: ITSM 7 Data Management Tool --- Hangs

2008-09-22 Thread Kelly Deaver
** did you follow all the other suggested settings about max number of filters etc? Did you try with a smaller number of records? How many are you trying? I'm thinking you are hitting some sort of resource wall. Kelly Deaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes, I work for BMC. This post reflects the opinions

Re: Regarding Unicode database

2008-09-22 Thread Axton
Show me what you see. Axton Grams On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:50 AM, anil RAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Hi Axton, I have done all these settings. I have imported the non unicode database to uncode supported database. When i am checking from SQL prompt , the data is displaying in proper

Re: Regarding Unicode database

2008-09-22 Thread Axton
What client (e.g., ARUser English, Mid-Tier) are you using? The mid-tier is the only unicode capable client I am aware of. The user tools are localized, meaning they are not going to show data properly from other locales; for example, you can not view multi-byte characters using the English user

Diary Field Validation

2008-09-22 Thread nsachin
Hello, Whenever a diary field is updated, the user name and timestamp gets updated in the Diary field.I don't want these to happen. Please help on this. Regards, Sachin -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Diary-Field-Validation-tp19607744p19607744.html Sent from the ARS

Re: Diary Field Validation

2008-09-22 Thread Frank Caruso
Then don't use a Diary Field :) Use a character field (unlimited size) On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 9:16 AM, nsachin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Whenever a diary field is updated, the user name and timestamp gets updated in the Diary field.I don't want these to happen. Please help on this.

Can any one reproduce this on other ITSM 7.0.3 versions (Incident with tasks)?

2008-09-22 Thread Phillips, Richard I CTR USA
Solaris/Oracle 10G/ARS 7.1 p2/ITSM 7.0.3 p7 Choose an Incident record with multiple tasks associated; on the 'Tasks' tab, table field 'Tasks and Task Groups', sort on the 'Status' field. Select any row in the table field, two rows will display as selected. Can someone confirm this behavior on a

Re: Priorities in Incident Management .

2008-09-22 Thread kiran kodali
Hi, I modified all the existing Priority and Impact fields. When i associate a Priority 5 to a summary , it is giving the following error. ERROR: When i create a request from Requester Console, it is not generating a request ID or the value in Request ID = In Process. ( I am talking abt 'My

Re: Timeout Error

2008-09-22 Thread Joe DeSouza
It depends on what operation the user is attempting.. Such errors are usually indicative of the fact that the database couldn't process the the call in time, the AR System waits for the database to respond for a while, and having got no response, stops waiting for it to respond and hence the

Re: Diary Field Validation

2008-09-22 Thread Joe DeSouza
So what then would be the purpose of a Diary field? The 'English' meaning of a diary is a record of a users actions in a chronological order..   If you just want a read only field to be updated with text only with no user and timestamps, you would need to emulate the functionality to update a

Re: Regarding Unicode database

2008-09-22 Thread Joe DeSouza
The ? represent a character that is not interpreted by the AR Server. It is a double byte character, and the AR Server does not know how to display it as it has not been setup with the right character set required to display the contents..   Joe - Original Message From: anil RAI

Re: Timeout Error

2008-09-22 Thread Opela, Gary L CTR USAF AFMC 72 CS/SCBAH
Also, you might check for filter looping. Usually you'll get an error stating such problem, but if you have your server configured to allow high number of filters to execute, and you have a slow server, you might see a timeout. It's worth looking at. You can see these by looking at the logs,

Re: Priorities in Incident Management .

2008-09-22 Thread Joe DeSouza
Hello Kiran, My guess is there must be workflow that sets the Status field based on the value of the Priority field, and since you added a newly customized value to Priority, you would need to find out what workflow does that, and then add your own piece of customized workflow to handle the

Re: Priorities in Incident Management .

2008-09-22 Thread Gayford, Matthew C.
Kiran, What forms did you modify? I'm guessing SRM:Request and HPD:HelpDesk, correct? Did you modify HPD:IncidentInterface_Create? Matt Matthew C. Gayford Technology Research Development Information Technology Systems Division University of North Carolina Wilmington (910) 962-7177 From:

Re: Converting database: Oracle to SQL Server

2008-09-22 Thread Joe DeSouza
Ivan,   Late response but here is what I think might work faster..   After installing the system on MS-SQL, you can try data transformation services of MS-SQL to copy data from Oracle to MS-SQL. I would assume that might be a lot quicker than Remedy imports. What you would need to do after that

split a field and loop on each piece

2008-09-22 Thread Brien Dieterle
Hello list, here's another one for ya. I'm working with field 112 on a form, that may contain one userID, or it might contain a bunch (like 'user1'; 'user2'; 'user3'), etc. I want to loop over all of these records, and then loop on each userID within field 112 (loop in a loop?) and do something

Re: split a field and loop on each piece

2008-09-22 Thread Axton
I would suggest you forget about parsing the string. The delimitter is a space, and a space can be a character in one of the values. What this means is that once the data is in the field, you can not reliably get it back out of the field. Consider you have the following groups (please excuse

Re: split a field and loop on each piece

2008-09-22 Thread Matt Worsdell
Brien Not sure what you are doing and there may be better ways of achieving the desired functionality, however you need to look at the following functions to achieve what you ask. StrStr - Finds string/char in a string Substr - Returns a string from a string From: Action Request

Re: Priorities in Incident Management . RESOLVED

2008-09-22 Thread kiran kodali
Huh...Thank you very much Matthew, it is working now. I did not modify it in HPD:IncidentInterface_Create form. I modified it in like half a dozen of forms and missed this one. I was not able to figure this out from the error log. On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Gayford, Matthew C. [EMAIL

Re: split a field and loop on each piece

2008-09-22 Thread Opela, Gary L CTR USAF AFMC 72 CS/SCBAH
Well, too bad we're not using Perl, you could just use the split function to feed the values into an array. But, since we are talking remedy here, try the following: Create a tmpChar, tmpChar2 and tmpInt field. 1) Filter sets tmpChar = $112$ and calls a filter guide. 2) guide calls the

Re: split a field and loop on each piece

2008-09-22 Thread Opela, Gary L CTR USAF AFMC 72 CS/SCBAH
Oh ouch. Well, thanks for waiting until after I typed up a solution to point this out, Axton :) -Gary Opela, Jr. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Axton Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 1:16 PM To:

Re: Timeout Error

2008-09-22 Thread Matt Worsdell
Agree with Joe, however I'd add that this behaviour (I'm from the UK ;)) must be frustrating for the end user. I'd suggest creating some kind of staging form which runs the functionality server side, the user can then refresh and check it has completed correctly. From: Action Request System

Leading zeros in Email Address sends email to all users

2008-09-22 Thread Marc Simmons
Hi Listeners, I had a user intentionally enter in 00 as an email address this weekend. Needless to say it created havoc. The email engine sent email to everyone in the system. I know that this has been documented out the wazoo. My question is whether or not this remains an issue in the

Re: Can any one reproduce this on other ITSM 7.0.3 versions (Incident with tasks)?

2008-09-22 Thread Phillips, Richard I CTR USA
Thanks! -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mario Roehr Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 11:32 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Can any one reproduce this on other ITSM 7.0.3 versions (Incident with tasks)?

Re: split a field and loop on each piece

2008-09-22 Thread Joe DeSouza
Its wierd that by design you are allowed spaces in a Group Name isn't it?   I generally avoid spaces in mine and use special characters like : or - instead of a space. Remedy used to do the same with the older versions of the ITSM applications, e.g. APP:Administrator, APP:Support.. I'm not sure

Re: Leading zeros in Email Address sends email to all users

2008-09-22 Thread Shellman, David
Actually is really funny that they called it a defect. They have always referenced it as working as designed. It's how BMC/Remedy designed the system to send email to folks in a specific permission group. Many special characters translate to zero which is the Public permission group and sends

Re: Leading zeros in Email Address sends email to all users

2008-09-22 Thread Phillips, Richard I CTR USA
1 sends to the admin group; we found this out the hard way. Good thing our user didn't enter 0 like in your case. 7.0.3 p7 rp -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Axton Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 11:41 AM

Re: split a field and loop on each piece

2008-09-22 Thread Brien Dieterle
Actually I think this is a great idea. I'm not putting groups in Field 112, but usernames-- and they MUST be surrounded by single quotes. In fact, on the database level they are separated by semi-colons (sorta confusing). So, I don't think I should have a problem delimiting by semicolon even if

Re: Production Plug in Server Error

2008-09-22 Thread Joe DeSouza
Wouldn't hurt to restart the AR Server. The plugin thread may have died.   Also, since you stated that you are on SQL server, it wouldn't hurt to check your transaction log space. You might be running out of it and may need to backup the transaction logs and truncate them. However I have my

Re: Production Plug in Server Error

2008-09-22 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
You can try to end the plugin process and armonitor should restart it automatically. If not, then a restart of the arserver is required. Tauf Chowdhury | Forest Laboratories, Inc. Sr. Analyst Office: 631.858.7765 From: Action Request System discussion

Re: Production Plug in Server Error

2008-09-22 Thread Mario Roehr
Jase, there's a patched/fixed ardcquery.dll that helped us with our issue like yours. If you like, I can email it off list to you. Here's BMC's description of the Software Defect: Defect #SW00247290 - REMEDY.ARDBC.APPQUERY plugin (ardbcQuery.dll) intermittently crashes when

Re: Production Plug in Server Error

2008-09-22 Thread Axton
Chances are the plugin server is crashing. The armonitor logs will show whether or not this is the case. If this is the case, you will need to work with BMC so they can diagnose and correct the issue with the plugin. They will need to give you a new dll for whatever the defective plugin is to

Handling Mail with localhost MTA

2008-09-22 Thread spacegoose
Is it recommended to use a localhost or alternate MTA to the built in Remedy engine for handling mail? I'm wondering how the Remedy mail engine handles failed connections to the outgoing mail server? Does it retry? Can the remedy mail handler/engine be configured to do SMTP AUTH? I am faced

Run Process Explanation

2008-09-22 Thread Steven Iocco
Hello Folks. I am trying to run the following process on my system and getting into some issues. PERFORM-ACTION-TABLE-SELECT-NODE field_ID row_number [column_number] [flag]The error I receive when running this process in midtier is Network Protocol/Data Error when performing data operation.

Re: Handling Mail with localhost MTA

2008-09-22 Thread Axton
Space Monkey, Both approaches are common place. In the even of an unavailable MTA, the email engine will log the failed connect attempt in the email error logs form and will retry on the next interval; the messages queue up if they are not handed off to the MTA. As for defining an alternate

reporting question

2008-09-22 Thread sivarama velicheti
Hi Group, I have a reporting question to ask. I do not have any third party tools like crystal reports installed for report generation and hence my primary sources are using search or the advanced search functionality to generate reports. Is there a way where I can save the reports in

Re: Run Process Explanation

2008-09-22 Thread Michelle Lucero
Hi, Steven: I assume that you are referring to the column headings in Admin field Help over Special Run Process Commands. The images didn't copy so well, sorry. AL1 F/E2 Command and Description RP3 $4 Web5 AL1 = Active Link F/E2 = Filters and Escalations RP3= Run Process

Fw: Run Process Explanation

2008-09-22 Thread Michelle Lucero
Clicked send too soon.. It does imply that it can run on the web. HOWEVER, sometimes workflow behaves differently on the mid-tier versus the user tool. What version of mid-tier and AR Server are your running. Also, there is a whitepaper put out a year ago (I believe) that discusses User Tool

Re: split a field and loop on each piece

2008-09-22 Thread Brien Dieterle
Gary, brilliant. Works like a champ! For posterity, just had to add `! to the filter that actually does the group adding,and a tmpgroups field to store the user's other groups, because I can't seem to append to a field during a push operation. Now I just need to setup an escalation to flush this

RSS feeds to Remedy data

2008-09-22 Thread Steven Pataray
One of my support people asked if Remedy data can be available via RSS feeds. I guess he was thinking he could subscribe to a groups queue and access it to have a quick lookup of what is outstanding. Does anyone know if this type of service is possible or would be possible in the future? Windows

Re: reporting question

2008-09-22 Thread sivarama velicheti
Thanks a lot. I can now save the reports to the local disk. Thanks Siva ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: Where the Answers Are

Re: RSS feeds to Remedy data

2008-09-22 Thread Easter, David
Hi Steven, Check out the BMC Developer's Network. http://developer.bmc.com/communities/docs/DOC-2782 -David J. Easter Sr. Product Manager, Solution Strategy and Development BMC Software, Inc. The opinions, statements, and/or suggested courses of action expressed in this E-mail do not

Re: Run Process Explanation

2008-09-22 Thread Steven Iocco
Thanks Michelle. We are using Remedy ARS 7.01 patch level 6, midtier 7.01 patch level 8. I will look for the white paper. Steve Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:57:02 -0500From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Fw: Run Process ExplanationTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Clicked send too soon.. It does imply that it can

Re: Run Process Explanation

2008-09-22 Thread Easter, David
25-Oct-2007 BMC Remedy Action Request System 7.0: Behavioral differences Between BMC Remedy User and Web Clients PDF http://www.bmc.com/supportu/documents/59/05/85905/85905.pdf -David J. Easter Sr. Product Manager, Solution Strategy and Development BMC Software, Inc. The

Re: ARERR (91) RPC call failed: RPC: Can't encode arguments

2008-09-22 Thread SYTANGCO,JENARO
Hi Sharon, As per the user, no major software installation happened before the issue occured. What is strange with this issue is, I was able to create and save a form using his machine but when it's his turn to create one or update a record, RPC error prompts. Also, I used his user account in