Re: SRM issue

2010-07-23 Thread Prasanth Prabhakaran (UST, IND)
Dear Christine, Thanks for helping me. The issue is fixed, Issue was with the connection to the INC module. I reconfigured the connection details in the CAI Application Registry form and it worked. Thanks and Regards, Prasanth.p | Remedy Team| VOIP:1113 | Mob : +91 999 559 5875

How to obtain the 'Schema-Alias' value for any given Schema

2010-07-23 Thread MCCAVITT Nyall
Hi, I can't seem to locate the database field that contains the 'Schema-Alias' value for a given schema. I know that it is stored in the Alias section of the View Properties of a form. I am selecting a form (schema) from a list (obtained by an SQL query on the arschema table) attached to a

Re: How to obtain the 'Schema-Alias' value for any given Schema

2010-07-23 Thread Walters, Mark
The alias is encoded in the field_dispprop record entry for the view – in either the propShort or propLong column depending on the size if the display properties data. Unfortunately it’s not stored in its own field. Find the schemaid (X) and vuiid (Y) for the view you’re interested in and

Re: How to obtain the 'Schema-Alias' value for any given Schema

2010-07-23 Thread MCCAVITT Nyall
Hi, Thanks for the info Mark. I found that if I use the PROCESS called Application-Get-Form-Alias in a Set Field action of a Active Link, then I can get the value that I need. Thanks. Nyall __ Nyall McCavitt

Re: Accessible fields

2010-07-23 Thread Mauro Monteiro
Hi, Yes! For instance, as a test I created a new field and set the same properties for the for both (basically, I saw the properties for z1D Char01 field and set my new field as it). When I execute the API my new field is there but z1D Char01 is not. Any ideas? Cheers, Mauro 2010/7/22 LJ

Re: What do you call Remedy-on-the-web?

2010-07-23 Thread Martin, Dwayne
Thanks to all who replied. I'd like to suggest that we follow Dave's suggestion (see below) and refer to the product as Mid Tier (as opposed to Mid-Tier or MidTier) to make it easier to do searches on ARSList archives. Dwayne *** From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: Archiving for incidents in Remedy

2010-07-23 Thread Shantanu Ballal
HI If you need to archive the incident tickets you can use Remedy DSO that is Distributed Server Option. with this you can have a server which is dedicated to only archving purpose and there are trnsfer modes through which you can archive the incidents from the HPD:Help Desk form to another

Re: Statement of Direction regarding EOL of Remedy User client has been amended.

2010-07-23 Thread Bisanti,Susan [CMC]
Greetings, My users have complained about not seeing the copy to new option in the webtool. Any idea if there are plans to add it? Regards, Susan Susan Bisanti CHP et opérations nationales | HPC and National Operations Direction générale du dirigeant principal de I'information | Chief

Re: ARS Install windows 2008 Server, SQL 2008 DB install

2010-07-23 Thread Craig Carter
We've installed v7.5 P5 (now patch 6) on Windows Server 2008 Enterprise and SQL Server 2008 Enterprise and haven't noticed any problems. We're pretty comfortable with the midtier servers but we're still testing the database servers. We're not using ITSM so I can't provide any information on

Re: Accessible fields

2010-07-23 Thread LJ LongWing
Ok.I would say pull all permissions from your actual field, save, put them back, save, and re-test.. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Mauro Monteiro Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 5:28 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Accessible

Re: Statement of Direction regarding EOL of Remedy User client has been amended.

2010-07-23 Thread Easter, David
Yes. Copy to New is a known enhancement request and is tentatively expected to be available in a future release. -David J. Easter Sr. Product Manager, Enterprise Service Management BMC Software, Inc. The opinions, statements, and/or suggested courses of action expressed in this E-mail do not

Midtier config issue

2010-07-23 Thread Nair, Rajesh IN BOM SISL
Dear List I have configured a new server for midtier and am getting a error message while login to the server ARERR [9295] incorrect login parameters. Web page, user, and/or server name(s) must be provided Midtier Verison 6.3 patch 23 on windows 2003 server Arserver 6.3 If I am trying to

Issue with Menu selection values

2010-07-23 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
List, Here's the issue. I have a bunch of drop down menus. The alias value is a word and each has a corresponding Selection value and ID which is a number. So High,Med,Low alias values would be 3,2,1 respectively. I have an active link on a button which then sets an Integer field with the

Re: Statement of Direction regarding EOL of Remedy User client has been amended.

2010-07-23 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Can it be an enhancement request for ITSM too? Thanks, Shawn Pierson Remedy Developer | Southern Union From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Easter, David Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 9:22 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Statement

Re: Statement of Direction regarding EOL of Remedy User client has been amended.

2010-07-23 Thread Easter, David
Hi Shawn, ITSM is an set of applications powered by AR System. Were the enhancement implemented, it would be expected that applications built on AR System would inherit the capability. So an additional enhancement against ITSM is most likely not needed. -David J. Easter Sr. Product

Re: Statement of Direction regarding EOL of Remedy User client has been amended.

2010-07-23 Thread Lammey, Peter A.
I do know that Change Management for 7.02 has the Copy Change option in the Quick links bar on the left that pops up a screen for the user to fill in how they want the new change to be setup. This acts like a Copy to New with added options for how you want the new copy to be setup. Did see this

Re: Statement of Direction regarding EOL of Remedy User client has been amended.

2010-07-23 Thread Pierson, Shawn
David, I'm aware of that, however, the last time I tried to use Copy to New on something like an Incident from the Windows User Tool, it copied over some fields that it shouldn't have (I think a GUID or something) and it didn't work. It's been a while since I tried that, but at least it

Re: Statement of Direction regarding EOL of Remedy User client has been amended.

2010-07-23 Thread Joe DeSouza
For now you could do it perhaps with a window open action and open window mapping.. It might be a pain in the rear to do it, but doable.. Joe From: Easter, David david_eas...@bmc.com To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Fri, July 23, 2010 10:21:39 AM Subject: Re:

Re: Statement of Direction regarding EOL of Remedy User client has been amended.

2010-07-23 Thread David Sanders
Hi Shawn The Copy-to-New functionality is not intelligent - it does not know what fields you may or may not need clearing out to avoid problems with your application data. However, it is easy to add this intelligence by creating an active link that fires on the event Copy-to-New for each form

Asset Management Status and Discovery

2010-07-23 Thread Koyb P. Liabt
Hi, If our asset is marked as in inventory and Foundation Discovery does not find the asset on the network (since it is in inventory), after synchronization, what would the status be for this asset in BMC.ASSET after reconciliation?

Re: Issue with Menu selection values

2010-07-23 Thread Brien Dieterle
** It could be the midtier is working with the alias value (char), not the number-- for some reason this sounds familiar. Brien On 7/23/2010 7:45 AM, Chowdhury, Tauf wrote: ** List, Heres the issue. I have a bunch of drop down menus. The alias value is a word and each

Re: ARS 7.1.0 from NON unicode to unicode - oracle from 9.x to 10.x on new machines

2010-07-23 Thread Antonio Monizza
Hi Axton, sorry for my late reply but I've been out of office during the last 2 weeks. Do you have any localized data currently in the database? Particularly CJK data or any other type of multi-byte or localized data? reply- we do not have CJK data Have clients connected to your remedy server

Re: Asset Management Status and Discovery

2010-07-23 Thread patrick zandi
syncornization puts the asset information into the cmdb pot for reconciliation, but there will be not alot of data unless you have a token, if you cannot come up with enough data to give you this token, it normally does not put the data into the cmdb. You would have to modify it. If you manually

Email Templates

2010-07-23 Thread Henry Douglas
Hello ARLIST, I've created an HTML email template for an outgoing email notification. The process works (email received per the run if qual) except for the record values are missing and the placement area of the values is blank in the email. My HTML template contains the record values

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-23 Thread Guillaume Rheault
Rick, Having parent or master changes that have days or months for implementation may not be a good idea, because it is going to mess up your change calendars, whether your OOTB ITSM change calendar, or any other calenda (BTW, take a look at the Kinetic calendar, it is awesome and really

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-23 Thread Rick Cook
Thanks, Guillaume. The OOB Change Calendar has already been identified as an issue, due to its limitations on time periods. We are looking at options there. Collision and Impact aren't really going to be used by the customer at first, though as their CM processes mature and their CI data gets

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-23 Thread Roger Justice
I tried to create a child Release to a Change and it is not lited as an option on the Change Relationships tab. This was ITSM 7.6 no Patch. -Original Message- From: Rick Cook remedyr...@gmail.com To: arslist arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Fri, Jul 23, 2010 1:34 pm Subject: Re: Change

Crystal Report error

2010-07-23 Thread Atul Vohra
We are using Business Objects 11.5 with ARS 7.5 When I try to run pre-canned reports in Incident Manager, I get the following eror The table 'HPD_Help_Desk' could not be found. Error in File C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\HPD5fAssigee5fModifed1 {E5FBF338-ED6F-4707-8B9E-E3BA1E0309AB}.rpt: The table could not

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-23 Thread Guillaume Rheault
from a process perspective, it seems to me having a a release with the child changes is sufficient...Release records can have approvals defined too with the approval server OOTB. I don't see the benefit of the parent change Guillaume From: Action Request

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-23 Thread Rick Cook
We are on 7.5 patch 4, and I see Release in the Relationship Type on the Change form, and see Infrastructure Change in the Relationship Type field on a Release record. Rick On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Roger Justice rjust2...@aol.com wrote: ** I tried to create a child Release to a Change

Re: Crystal Report error

2010-07-23 Thread Lammey, Peter A.
Does your Remedy User client have ODBC use underscores checked? This can be found in the menu Tools - Options and in the Advanced tab. Also verify that your Remedy application server name is listed in Report Server field (and includes TCP if necessary in the TCP field next to that field).

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-23 Thread Rick Cook
The customer intends to have the Parent RFC as an initial point of approval and dispatch. So Parent Company says All installations need to patch their Windows OS with patches A, B, and C between Aug 1 and Aug 20. Then when that's approved at the corporate level, each local NOC will create a

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-23 Thread Guillaume Rheault
hi Rick, I understand the situation. But that parent change could be a release entry too. My understanding of the philiosphy behind the BMC Release Mgmt module is that the release entry is intended to be the parent of changes, i.e. the actual implementation changes to production... So the

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-23 Thread strauss
Could the proper sequence be that an initial RFC would be considered for enterprise application versus local, and if approved for the enterprise you would create a parent Release for it, followed by additional child (to the Release) Infrastructure Changes and Activities for the rest of the

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-23 Thread Guillaume Rheault
Rick, I found the evidence of my assumption of Release being the starting point, the top object if you will. On page 42 of the BMC Remedy Change Management 7.5.00 User’s Guide, it is stated: .A release is a collection of related authorized changes to an IT service that are tested and

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-23 Thread Rick Cook
Wow, I just read the CM User Guide again, and you're right - Release is designed to be the parent of Changes and Activities. A quote from page 42: A release is a collection of related authorized changes to an IT service that are tested and introduced into the live environment together. OK, then.

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-23 Thread Guillaume Rheault
Chris, good point. In the end, the main issue that needs to br definrd and standardized is the usage of the application. The BMC Remedy Change Mgmt and Release Mgmt are loosely coupled OOTB, so various ways of usage can be defined, and that is usually the most difficult part in change mgmt

Re: Crystal Report error

2010-07-23 Thread Atul Vohra
Sorry forgot to mention - this is being accessed using mid-tier -Original Message- From: Lammey, Peter A. [peter.a.lam...@espn.com] Date: 07/23/2010 02:19 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Crystal Report error Does your Remedy User client have ODBC use underscores checked? This

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-23 Thread Rick Cook
Well, having Release at the top allows things to flow Release -- Change/Activity -- Task. Putting Release below Change eliminates the ability to use Tasks, since they can't be directly subordinate to a Release. So our options for a dependent (i.e. Parent/Child) flow are: Release --

Re: Email Templates

2010-07-23 Thread Jason Miller
A few things to check are: - Make sure that the fields you want values for in the template are selected in the filter as fields to include. - Check field permissions - The user receiving the email needs permissions to the data/field being sent. - If Remedy cannot tie

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-23 Thread Roger Justice
And you can do it the way we did it before Release. Change - Change(s)- Task -Original Message- From: Rick Cook remedyr...@gmail.com To: arslist arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Fri, Jul 23, 2010 3:59 pm Subject: Re: Change Management question ** Well, having Release at the top allows

tablefield button artifacts on browser...

2010-07-23 Thread Rick Phillips
ARS 7.5 p5 SQL 2005 Windows 7 (laptop development) IE 8 I have several tablefields on my primary form, and ordinarily they would have 3 buttons at the bottom of the tablefield by default:  Report, Select All, DeSelect All. In Dev Studio, on the tablefield property, I have cleared the

Re: tablefield button artifacts on browser...

2010-07-23 Thread Andrew Fremont
I have seen the similar issues several times on the table fields when viewing the form on mid-tier. It looks OK on WUT. It took me awhile to find out that, there is a space on labels. don't know how those spaces ended up there, but I swear I removed them. The issue is fixed when I removed

Re: tablefield button artifacts on browser...

2010-07-23 Thread Rick Phillips
Wow, that was easy-thanks! I'm not sure how those pesky spaces got there either; I must have been holding it wrong, you know blocking the antennae... rp ---Original Message--- From: Andrew Fremont andrewfrem...@gmail.com To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: tablefield button

Display date/time field values in notifications using user's time zone setting.

2010-07-23 Thread Shyam Attavar
Listers, The OOB notifications display the date/time values in the server time zone by default. This behavior is not desirable and we are in the process of investigating options to display date/time field values in the email recipient user's time zone setting. The behavior is already available

Re: Crystal Report error

2010-07-23 Thread Shafqat Ayaz
You could also open the report in Crystal and do Verify Database. It is possible that the table name has been messed up in the report, so checking the database will fix the issue. thanks Shafqat Ayaz    --- On Fri, 7/23/10, Lammey, Peter A. peter.a.lam...@espn.com wrote:

Re: Kintetic Request vs BMC Remedy SRM vs newScale

2010-07-23 Thread Shafqat Ayaz
In my opinion and this is purely personal, I would go with Kinetic Request. NewScale offers a nice web interface but the actual programming to do anything is tedious to say the least( at least it was a couple of years ago when I took their course). The catalog aspect of NewScale is also handled

Re: ARS Install windows 2008 Server, SQL 2008 DB install

2010-07-23 Thread Prasanth Prabhakaran (UST, IND)
Hi Kevin, We have installed V7.5 patch4 in windows 2008 server and SQL 2008 enterprise edition. We have all modules of ITSM and it running fine without any issue. What are the issues you facing ? Thanks and Regards, Prasanth.p | Remedy Team| VOIP:1113 | Mob : +91 999 559 5875