WWRUG update

2010-10-19 Thread Jason Miller
They kicked us out of Body English (aka the Welcome Reception). It is great to be with a wonderful mix of Remedy folks again. Being here reminds me of how darn cool Remedy people and the community are. I think most of us are very busy in our normal lives. When we get together and share the

Capture user desktop Time Zone in remedy

2010-10-19 Thread John Baker
Hello, If you're using the web client, which I suspect most people will be doing, you could write some Javascript to get an offset from GMT in minutes, as documented here: http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_getTimezoneOffset.asp - the problem with the Javascript getTimezoneOffset() function

Re: How to recreate missing view of a form? ARs 6.3, Oracle 10g

2010-10-19 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
Rabi, That's a good point and while that may be one of the reasons why this error is occurring.. However since you say the view is missing altogether, that error may be possibly occurring during the creation of the view. I do not recall if the DROP and CREATE of a view are two separate

Re: How to recreate missing view of a form? ARs 6.3, Oracle 10g

2010-10-19 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
Rabi, That's a good point and while that may be one of the reasons why this error is occurring.. However since you say the view is missing altogether, that error may be possibly occurring during the creation of the view. I do not recall if the DROP and CREATE of a view are two separate

Re: IT Prophets RemTools Presentation At WWRUG10: Tuesday, 4 p.m. Conference Room Muse 4

2010-10-19 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
If these tools are aimed at developers, I would be interested to see what they can functionally offer as well. Joe From: Scott Parrish Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 4:05 PM Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: IT Prophets RemTools Presentation At

Remedy on a Virtual Server White Paper

2010-10-19 Thread Hulmes, Timothy W Mr CTR US USA NETCOM/9TH SC A 7TH SC
Does anyone know if there is an updated White Paper on running a Remedy System on a Virtual Server? Tim ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug10 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: Where the

Re: How to recreate missing view of a form? ARs 6.3, Oracle 10g. RESOLVED

2010-10-19 Thread Rabi Tripathi
It turns out the database user aradmin had somehow lost the crete view privilege during migration from Oracle 9i to 10g. All is fine after our DBA added the privilege to aradmin. The breakthrough came when I turned on the SQL logging again and saved the form after changing name of an unused

Upgrading ITSM 7.0.3 to 7.6 doesn't seem to work

2010-10-19 Thread sphilben
** All: I have been trying an upgrade ITSM from 7.0.3 patch 009 to 7.6 patch 001 on an ARS 7.5 patch 007 server. The upgrade seems to run fine (no obvious errors) but when I go to open the lightly-customized Incident form, I see nothing on the Best Practices view (just a few hidden fields) and a

Ticket Modify Permissions

2010-10-19 Thread Shane Buchholz
Does anyone know a quick way to grant write access to all tickets for my user base? We are on the verge of a revolt after moving from ITSM 5.6 to 7.6. Any thoughts would be appreciated. AR - 7.5 ITSM - 7.6 SQL 2005 Windows 2008 (64-bit) Thanks, Shane Buchholz Systems Analyst II - Remedy

Resolved - Pushing Field data from Incident to Task

2010-10-19 Thread Shane Buchholz
Thanks for all of the responses on this. I decided to go with the idea of display-only fields in Task, and this seems to work for what my users need. Thanks, Shane Buchholz Systems Analyst II - Remedy Information Services Operations Samaritan Health Services From: Action Request System

Re: Upgrading ITSM 7.0.3 to 7.6 doesn't seem to work

2010-10-19 Thread strauss
On the two servers where I upgraded ITSM 7.0.02/3.009 to 7.6.00.001 (having upgraded ARS from 7.1 to 7.5 first), the Best Practices view appeared correctly (since it is a brand new view, added to the form), and the Default User View was back to it's OOTB state (meaning that the RKM integration

Re: Upgrading ITSM 7.0.3 to 7.6 doesn't seem to work

2010-10-19 Thread Mahesh
As per the defect # SW00343855, you would have to upgrade to 7.5.1 Patch 3 and then to ITSM 7.6 Patch 1. Thanks Mahesh On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:48 AM, sphilben sphil...@mac.com wrote: ** All: I have been trying an upgrade ITSM from 7.0.3 patch 009 to 7.6 patch 001 on an ARS 7.5 patch 007

Re: Ticket Modify Permissions

2010-10-19 Thread Mahesh
Have you looked into Submitter Mode settings ? Thanks Mahesh On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Shane Buchholz sha...@samhealth.orgwrote: ** Does anyone know a quick way to grant write access to all tickets for my user base? We are on the verge of a revolt after moving from ITSM 5.6 to 7.6.

Re: Ticket Modify Permissions

2010-10-19 Thread Shane Buchholz
Sorry, this is in reference to my licensed user base. I am looking at removing the restriction of only being able to modify tickets that are in Support Groups that you belong you. Thanks, Shane Buchholz Systems Analyst II - Remedy Information Services Operations Samaritan Health Services

WWRUG update

2010-10-19 Thread Rick Cook
Good turnout- a bit more than last year. Dan lost his voice, and until someone returns it, Joel is covering for him. Bob Beauchamp was very good this morning. He made it very clear that Remedy is not just a product BMC sells, it IS the core application responsible for BMC even existing as a

Re: Ticket Modify Permissions

2010-10-19 Thread Charles Baldi
You can give everyone the Incident Master permission. It is a kludge but was the way a previous customer decided to use to solve the same problem. With this, editing an Incident is not restricted to Support Group. Regards, Chuck Baldi On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Shane Buchholz

Re: Upgrading ITSM 7.0.3 to 7.6 doesn't seem to work

2010-10-19 Thread strauss
And just what defect is that exactly, since the BMC Support site refuses to find or display it from either the Knowledgebase or the Issues search pages (useless insert colorful metaphor here)? Christopher Strauss, Ph.D. Call Tracking Administration Manager University of North Texas Computing

Set Fields action oddness

2010-10-19 Thread Ron Legters
I'm stumped here. I've got a set fields action firing from a menu choice. It sets several fields on the current form from another form. The fields display just fine, they look like they've been set, but when I try and fire workflow using the new values, they behave as if they're empty.

Documenting Remedy customizations and source control

2010-10-19 Thread Andrew Yacenda
We are in the midst of an internal audit of our Remedy application. We are looking at findings for inadequate documentation of Remedy customizations and coding standards, as well as for not using software source control tools. I am curious how other groups address these things, and whether

Re: Documenting Remedy customizations and source control

2010-10-19 Thread Lammey, Peter A.
I prefer to track all coding releases either in change requests but also organize all impacted forms and workflow into a Packing list. If it fields, then the packing list has the form so then in my change request I would write in what fields are actually impacted. Thanks Peter Lammey ESPN IT

Question Regarding CMDB2Asset utility

2010-10-19 Thread ftsnv
Hi Group, I have question regarding a new class that we have created in CMDB core. Its a subclass of the computer system. I have added the relevant details to SHR:Schema Names. But my question is how do we add the corresponding entry details for the new class in Application

Re: Upgrading ITSM 7.0.3 to 7.6 doesn't seem to work

2010-10-19 Thread Mahesh
When we tried to upgrade from ITSM 7.0.03 Patch 9 to ITSM 7.6 Patch 1, the installer ran for 26 hours eventually completing with warnings and the Incident Management Error log indicated that lot of def files arx files were not imported. Below are the details regarding this defect: * * * * * * *

Re: Upgrading ITSM 7.0.3 to 7.6 doesn't seem to work

2010-10-19 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
Did you have the Development cache mode turned on or off? Joe From: Mahesh Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 5:44 PM Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading ITSM 7.0.3 to 7.6 doesn't seem to work ** When we tried to upgrade from ITSM 7.0.03

Re: Set Fields action oddness

2010-10-19 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
Ron, You might have already checked this but just thought I'd remind you to if you haven't. Check the order of when the message is triggered and when the set field action happens.. The message might be happening before the set fields.. Joe From: Ron Legters Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Re: Upgrading ITSM 7.0.3 to 7.6 doesn't seem to work

2010-10-19 Thread Mahesh
Development Cache Mode is Enabled. Also, commented out assignment engine, approval server, slm service, reconciliation engine and dispatchr processes in armonitor.cfg Thanks Mahesh On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Joe Martin D'Souza jdso...@shyle.netwrote: ** Did you have the Development

Re: Set Fields action oddness

2010-10-19 Thread Brien Dieterle
** So you have two ALs-- one triggered by a menu choice and another via a button? The menu AL sets some fields. The button AL cannot see these field values? You are adding the message action within the Button AL right, and not the same AL that is doing the set fields? I

Re: Upgrading ITSM 7.0.3 to 7.6 doesn't seem to work

2010-10-19 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
What is your underlying DB? Did you prepare your DB for the upgrade? For e.g. it does help to flush your transaction log files before such installs that involve a large number of DB transactions. On Oracle it may help to turn SQL logging off? Joe From: Mahesh Sent: Tuesday, October 19,

Re: Set Fields action oddness

2010-10-19 Thread Ron Legters
You're correct. The set fields happens by a menu choice on one AL. I can then see data populated in the fields it's setting. I have a button, and when I click it, it's supposed to open a CRQ whose ID was just set into the 'Originating CRQ' field, which I can see has happened. I added a message

Re: Set Fields action oddness

2010-10-19 Thread Brien Dieterle
** The only thing that I can think of is permissions on the fields. If you didn't have permissions to write to a field, but you just had set the fields (which would fail on commit), would that data be readable by an AL? I'm thinking yes, so nevermind. Maybe another

Re: Set Fields action oddness

2010-10-19 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
Could you list the order of actions in your AL's and the number of AL's you are using to achieve what you are doing? Joe From: Ron Legters Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 7:14 PM Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Set Fields action oddness **

Re: Upgrading ITSM 7.0.3 to 7.6 doesn't seem to work

2010-10-19 Thread Mahesh
We did all the steps that were recommended by BMC and the result was same on all three attempts. So, went ahead with a fresh installation of ITSM 7.6 Patch 1, migrated all the data and are ready to go-live in two weeks from now. Thanks Mahesh On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Joe Martin D'Souza

Re: WWRUG update

2010-10-19 Thread Guillaume Rheault
Can somebody ask the BMC brass if there are any plans to be acquired or merge with another company (Oracle?) It may be easier to get a straight answer over a couple of beers Guillaume From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [arsl...@arslist.org]

Re: WWRUG update

2010-10-19 Thread Rick Cook
Bob Beauchamp made it very clear this morning that any word on this would have to come through official channels. Companies wanting to buy other companies happens all the time. Sometimes it happens, and sometimes it doesn't. He asked us not to post anything else he said, but his general tone

Re: Upgrading ITSM 7.0.3 to 7.6 doesn't seem to work

2010-10-19 Thread Kagan, Ramon
Defect 343855 is specific to when ITSM and older versions of SLM are installed on the same environment. In that case, the older versions of SLM/SLA created join forms across ITSM main forms which causes upgrade problems for ITSM due to field references existing when trying to upgrade the HPD

Re: Upgrading ITSM 7.0.3 to 7.6 doesn't seem to work

2010-10-19 Thread Kagan, Ramon
While I don't have full details into the problem. With SLM installed, the likely solution is to drop the join form created by SLM/SLA, run the ITSM upgrade and then re-establish the Service target as described in the SLM install guide in the post install section.