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

2010-07-26 Thread Shyam Attavar
Thanks for the suggestion LJ, I was hoping that there was a function/keyword that would make this simple. Looks like I have to write custom workflow for each of the Date/Time field that is being referenced in notifications for calculating the offset between GMT and the users' time zone. -- Shy

Re: tablefield button artifacts on browser...

2010-07-26 Thread Rick Phillips
Thanks, Joe, yes it was a stray, single space on each one: easily fixed. rp ---Original Message--- From: Joe DeSouza To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: tablefield button artifacts on browser... Sent: Jul 26 '10 11:56 ** Rick, I have worked on similar configurations..

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-26 Thread Mahendra Mahalkar
Thanks to all listers participated in this thread as this discussion really helped me to clear my concepts. Thanks & Regards, Mahendra Mahalkar On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 8:36 PM, strauss wrote: > ** > > As near as I can tell, Change Management is the process for continuous > improvement (or evo

Re: Mid-Tier 7.5 Problems

2010-07-26 Thread Axton
That's the same situation I am in. Getting logs is troublesome, at best. Reproducing the errors seems to be a draw of the hat (maybe 1 in 30 chance), so we too are having a near impossible time getting logs of the errors. The errors seem to persist with a given session; meaning that I can consis

Re: Mid-Tier 7.5 Problems

2010-07-26 Thread Jason Miller
Hi Axton, I just checked two patch 4 and one patch 5 Mid-Tier servers for "RuntimeExceptionjava.lang.IllegalStateException" and did not find any occurrences. Jason On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Axton wrote: > ** Wanted to see if anyone out there is having these types of issues with > Mid-Ti

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-26 Thread Rick Cook
Well, ITIL 3 is an ancillary requirement, but that's kind of moot, since according to our ITIL guy, who actually writes the ITIL policies and proofs the books and holds every cert there is, BMC did not construct this in an ITIL v2 or v3-compliant way. He says that Change should be the overarching

Re: Mid-Tier 7.5 Problems

2010-07-26 Thread LJ LongWing
Axton, We are seeing lots of 'Caught Exception' errors..we have been struggling to get them fixed even with vendor support.I have also received a single 'if you are on SSO' report, but only one. I haven't investigated the SSO error because I have only gotten it once The 'Caught Exception

Mid-Tier 7.5 Problems

2010-07-26 Thread Axton
Wanted to see if anyone out there is having these types of issues with Mid-Tier 7.5 patch 4 or higher: - blank page when accessing a form - page stops loading at the animated gif (loading) - Javascript 'Caught Exception' errors - "Unable to reach Mid-Tier. If you are on SSO, please re-login to SSO

Re: Has your company converted from custom to off-the-shelf BMC apps?

2010-07-26 Thread Robert Molenda
Agreed and Agreed - and if a "gap analysis" and "ROI" analysis is to be performed - then the step back to "vendor" should additionally be considered as well. I'm not saying "anything about vendor" it is just that this is not a "simple task" - and all options should be considered. That is unless the

Re: Has your company converted from custom to off-the-shelf BMC apps?

2010-07-26 Thread Guillaume Rheault
Hi Sandy I second Joe's comments You need to do a total cost of ownership, which will include buying the ITSM application licenses, increase in BMC support, the need to ugrade your ITSM applications every 3-4 years (so you are not unsupported). Most importantly you need to do a full gap analysis

Re: tablefield button artifacts on browser...

2010-07-26 Thread Joe DeSouza
Rick, I have worked on similar configurations.. I have been successfully able to remove the button by having a null string in the Labels section of these buttons on the Dev Studio.. Have you by any chance got a space in there instead of setting those labels to NULL?? Joe __

Re: How to make field values system-generated in Remedy 7.5

2010-07-26 Thread Joe DeSouza
Kali, I second LJ's opinion. Been working with the AR System in the capacity of a developer and consultant more than a decade and never knew System to be a choice to choose from. It is hard-coded only with core fields as LJ pointed out.. The only selectable values at the time of creating a fie

Re: Has your company converted from custom to off-the-shelf BMC apps?

2010-07-26 Thread Joe DeSouza
Sandy, In a case like yours, it all boils down to whether or not you have a good business case for the change. You say your home grown apps are finely tuned to your business needs. Would your business justification for a change to the OTB apps outweigh your home grown apps and the risks involve

Re: Has your company converted from custom to off-the-shelf BMC apps?

2010-07-26 Thread Jason Miller
Hi Sandy, We are not complete custom but have done a ton of custom development. We are a pretty large health care company with about 14k employees about another 15k affiliates (we share a parking lot with one of your sites). We have used the Help Desk app since we started with Remedy (1999 I thi

Re: Merge Job

2010-07-26 Thread Kathy Morris
How are we supposed to update the assets if we can't update the status? In a message dated 7/26/2010 1:14:50 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, m...@worsy.co.uk writes: ** In which case I give way. I had an issue with 75 that has a workaround. Sent from my iPhone On 26 Jul 2010, at 17:42

Re: Merge Job

2010-07-26 Thread Matt Worsdell
In which case I give way. I had an issue with 75 that has a workaround. Sent from my iPhone On 26 Jul 2010, at 17:42, Kathy Morris wrote: ** HI, CMDB 2.1 In a message dated 7/26/2010 12:39:14 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, m...@worsy.co.uk writes: ** What version Kathy? Sent from my iPhone

Re: Merge Job

2010-07-26 Thread Kathy Morris
HI, CMDB 2.1 In a message dated 7/26/2010 12:39:14 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, m...@worsy.co.uk writes: ** What version Kathy? Sent from my iPhone On 26 Jul 2010, at 16:58, Kathy Morris <_kathymorris...@aol.com_ (mailto:kathymorris...@aol.com) > wrote: ** Hi All, I have

Re: Merge Job

2010-07-26 Thread Matt Worsdell
What version Kathy? Sent from my iPhone On 26 Jul 2010, at 16:58, Kathy Morris wrote: ** Hi All, I have created precedence values were Asset takes higher precedence over TOPO, with some exceptions based upon a list of field attributes. I configured it this way until we can clean up ou

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-26 Thread Guillaume Rheault
The way I would phrase it like this: Release Mgmt is the controlling application of Change Mgmt One benefit of using the release module is that you can have activities that do not require approvals; example of activities could be training, development of documentation, sending out communications

Re: Has your company converted from custom to off-the-shelf BMC apps?

2010-07-26 Thread Paolino, Andrew
Hi Sandy, We have consulted with tons of organizations to do these types of deployments. Are you planning to do this deployment in-house? If not, we would be happy to get on the phone with you and provide some additional information. Thanks! -Andrew Andrew Paolino Column Technologies 130 Will

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-26 Thread Rick Cook
So the question boils down to this - please correct me if I'm wrong: If Change is being implemented to act as the master application to Release, what does that bring to the table functionally that using multiple levels of Change by itself doesn't do better? Rick On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:39 AM,

Merge Job

2010-07-26 Thread Kathy Morris
Hi All, I have created precedence values were Asset takes higher precedence over TOPO, with some exceptions based upon a list of field attributes. I configured it this way until we can clean up our BMC.ASSET because another developer imported critical data that we need directly imported

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-26 Thread Guillaume Rheault
I guess the problem relies on the fact that in ITIL v2 Release Mgmt was below Change Mgmt, and in ITIL v3 it's the other way around I would have to verify this in ITIL v2 literature, which in my case is somewhere gathering dust :-) On the web, I found this quite interesting: http://www.itl

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-26 Thread strauss
That's why I included the citations. Christopher Strauss, Ph.D. Call Tracking Administration Manager University of North Texas Computing & IT Center http://itsm.unt.edu/ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Rick Cook Sent: Monday, July 26,

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-26 Thread Rick Cook
So you guys can imagine my dilemma - I have one group of very experienced, respected and trained people (you guys) telling me something that is 180 degrees apart from what another group of experienced, respected, and trained people (my ITIL experts) are telling me. And how the tool is set up, alth

Has your company converted from custom to off-the-shelf BMC apps?

2010-07-26 Thread Luepke, Sandy
I work for a large manufacturing company who has been a BMC Remedy customer for over 10 years. We used ARS to develop our own incident, problem, request, and change modules. Our systems are quite sophisticated and finely tuned to our business processes. We are in the process of evaluating changi

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-26 Thread strauss
As near as I can tell, Change Management is the process for continuous improvement (or evolution) through corrective changes to a service, and works at the component level of the services (CIs, assets, processes). Release and Deployment Management is more the process for quality assurance of al

Re: How to make field values system-generated in Remedy 7.5

2010-07-26 Thread LJ LongWing
Kali, System has never to my knowledge been available in the drop down..but is a valid value. The value of 'System' is in use for 'core' fields..you should have NEVER been able to choose it, and if you could, it was a bug in the Admin tool..values for that field are System/Display Only/Required/O

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

2010-07-26 Thread LJ LongWing
Shyam, If you are willing to go through the hassle, you can do something similar to this. Determine a mechanism to 'translate' the server time to user time.you could either store timezones or 'offset from server', or however you decide to do it.then create a temp date/time field and copy the t

Re: Issue with Menu selection values

2010-07-26 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Are you setting the integer and doing the addition in the same AL Set Fields action or are you setting the integer from the selection field and then in another action doing the addition? If you are using only 1 action try breaking it up into 2 separate actions. Fred Original Message -

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-26 Thread Guillaume Rheault
Rick, This is a great discussion, one that trully reflects the intent and purpose of this list. One thing that IMHO you need to stress to the client if you go that route, is that if somebody for the client organization reads the Change Mgmt user guide, and finds what the OOTB use of the release

Re: Error using rrrchive

2010-07-26 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, This is what the error message means: http://rrr.se/cgi/arerrr?n=91 The debug-level does not improve information, as this is a BMC-generated error message. Something goes wrong in the RPC-call to the server, all encapsulated inside the AR-API supplied by BMC. In general, rrrchive just perfor

Re: How to make field values system-generated in Remedy 7.5

2010-07-26 Thread Frank Caruso
I do not believe that was ever a feature. If a field has an Entry-Mode of System it cannot be changed. You can change a a non System field from Required to Optional and vice-versa. On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Kali Obsum wrote: > ** > Hi, > > In Remedy 6.3, there is an option to make a field

Error using rrrchive

2010-07-26 Thread Rafael Bertolini
Hi I'm using rrrchive to migrate some data between two servers. In general, it's working just fine but some records (around 5%) fail to migrate with the following log: rrrchive: 2010-07-22 11:55:14, type=ARS, level=ERROR, file=rrrchive.cpp, line=417 ARMergeEntry(server=, form=, entry=A

Re: Change Management question

2010-07-26 Thread Rick Cook
I was talking to our local ITIL folks about this this morning, and their opinion was that BMC constructed the Release/Change relationship backward - that Change should be above Release. I have heard others say the opposite, so maybe that's true, maybe not, and there was agreement about there being

Re: Issue with Menu selection values

2010-07-26 Thread Chowdhury, Tauf
Thanks Brien. What would be the alternate? Would I have to create active links that translate the alias value to a number then using an AL guide? Anyone else have any ideas? Tauf Chowdhury | Forest Laboratories, Inc. Analyst, Service Management Mobile:646.483.2779 __

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

2010-07-26 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
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