Re: Next Request ID Block Size - Info required

2011-10-12 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, What happens is that each thread will reserve 10 numbers at a time. This means that thread 1 will create something like number 15-24, and that the next thread will get 25-34 etc. This also means that the creation time of record 25 may be prior to lets say 18. In pre 7.6.04, the default

Re: Next Request ID Block Size - Info required

2011-10-12 Thread Walters, Mark
Next-ID-Block-Size can be set per form - it's an option that can be enabled under Form, Properties. Mark -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Misi Mladoniczky Sent: 12 October 2011 07:30 To:

Re: Next Request ID Block Size - Info required

2011-10-12 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, You learn something new every day, right :-) What about the Next-ID-Commit on a per-form-basis? That would be equally important if you want your IDs in a straight line. Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://rrr.se Next-ID-Block-Size can be set per form - it's an option that can be

Re: Next Request ID Block Size - Info required

2011-10-12 Thread Walters, Mark
Sorry, nothing on that one. I must admit I've never really understood the requirement to have linear request ids. That's not to say there's not a good reason you might want to do this but I don't see the need. There has never been a guarantee that there would be no gaps in the sequence - a

Re: Next Request ID Block Size - Info required

2011-10-12 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, A failed submit has never left a gap in the id range until the Next-ID-Commit:T was introduced. I have depended on this since version 2.0 of the AR System. There are many cases when it is useful, or required, to have an unbroken serial number. You can build your own workflow to try to

Re: Next Request ID Block Size - Info required

2011-10-12 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, If I understand you correct, if you have the Next-ID-Block-Size set to a value greater than 1, the Next-ID-Commit has no relevance. Why make a Next-ID-Commit default of T and Next-ID-Block-Size of 25 the default in that case? If I want a unbroken serial on one form, I guess I can do

Re: Next Request ID Block Size - Info required

2011-10-12 Thread Walters, Mark
Before the block size option was introduced there was a potential bottleneck on the arschema table when a large number of records were being created as each new record needed to update the nextId for the form in this table. The default behavior was to update the nextID to get the new request

Re: Next Request ID Block Size - Info required

2011-10-12 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, I actually tried removing the two lines from ar.cfg with Next-ID-Commit and Next-ID-Block-Size. The default is T and 25 in 7.6.04 (unpatched). Here is the log: http://rrr.se/tmp/rrrLog764nextId.html I had to set Next-ID-Commit it to F to have the old functionality when the arschema-table is

Re: Next Request ID Block Size - Info required

2011-10-12 Thread Walters, Mark
I'm pretty sure the locking is implicit and left to the db to apply the most appropriate type rather than explicitly set by the server. mark -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Misi Mladoniczky Sent: 12

Web Service getlist can not fetech more than 700 records and give request time out

2011-10-12 Thread Sam The Dam
Hi All, I have published web service using gelist. But when I try to consume this web service I can fetch only 500 records. I found a BMC KB KA299205 and set the 'Proxy Server Settings for Java VM' value to -Xms512m -Xmx1024m and now able to fetch 700 records. However if I try to fetch

Re: ARERR 565 - Remedy LDAP Process issue - Index for value in SQL command is greater than the number of values returned

2011-10-12 Thread Guillaume Rheault
Hi Sathish, If this is an index problem, as the error message suggests, how about if you ask the DBA to rebuild the indexes on the T Table related to the form AR System Email Messages form. It may do the trick, easy to fix and try. Guillaume From:

Re: Next Request ID Block Size - Info required

2011-10-12 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Misi, I can think of a case where a gap will occur. If I have a form that on submit fires a filter that does a push to a 2nd (or 3rd, 4th, ...) form and that push fails then the 1st form's record will be backed out. With multiple users on the system a second user could create a record in

Re: Next Request ID Block Size - Info required

2011-10-12 Thread Rick Cook
Mark, isn't that bottleneck only an issue when multiple sources (such as NMS) are attempting to submit multiple entries to the same form at the same time? That was the initial problem that the Next-ID block was added to alleviate. If so, I fail to see the value-add to making a larger value than

Re: Next Request ID Block Size - Info required

2011-10-12 Thread Rick Cook
You will also get gaps on a server restart, unless the Next-ID-Commit covers that as well. For those whose records are subject to oversight, will missing records, or records whose IDs were not create chronologically, create any audit issues? Rick On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Grooms,

Re: Next Request ID Block Size - Info required

2011-10-12 Thread patrick zandi
YES ! AIE was the example: BCA, Marimba, Proactive net, etc.. tools cause this:: When installing the tools, you must set to like 100 and after you have installed, I believe you reset down to 25, 10 to a real world production environment.. I have that bumping around in my little skull... On Wed,

Re: Next Request ID Block Size - Info required

2011-10-12 Thread Rick Cook
My testing on 7.1 and 7.5 showed that INTERNAL multiple submits (my test was an Escalation using Push Fields to create about 10K records in a small form) actually performed slightly WORSE with the Next-ID set to any number greater than one. So unless you have some specific test information that

Re: Next Request ID Block Size - Info required

2011-10-12 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, If you do not meddle with the phases and commits, I think you might be wrong... With the following settings, everything should be rolled back. Next-ID-Commit:F Next-ID-Block-Size:1 All other simultaneous submits to these forms has to wait until we are done, either successfully or rolled

Re: Next Request ID Block Size - Info required

2011-10-12 Thread Axton
If you have more than 1 thread, you have a potential for resource contention. On seperate threads you can create an entry in the same form. If each transaction has to update/commit the same record in arschema, you can get a bottleneck. By managing the numbers in memory (versus the db), you can

Re: Next Request ID Block Size - Info required

2011-10-12 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, Hm... I do not think so... If the database has received the COMMIT, everything should be in the database. If not, the database would roll back, right??? Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://rrr.se You will also get gaps on a server restart, unless the Next-ID-Commit covers that

Re: Next Request ID Block Size - Info required

2011-10-12 Thread Rick Cook
Well of course there is the potential for contention, the question is whether that contention causes any kind of noticeable latency and whether the solution is better than the problem. Within that context, does the scenario I laid out below have a logical flaw? Rick On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:08

ARS 7.1 Upgrade to 7.6.04 SP1 - Installer ORA ERRORS

2011-10-12 Thread Leihkauff, Kenneth G
Hello, Has anyone experienced similar problems when upgrading from 7.1 to 7.6 ARS? I've submitted a ticket to BMC but they have not indicated this is a known problem. More specifically, I'm upgrading 7.1 patch 6 ARS to 7.6.04 SP1 ARS. This is Solaris 10, Oracle 11g. The installer completes

Re: Next Request ID Block Size - Info required

2011-10-12 Thread Axton
If one transaction updates arschema.nextid, does it's other processing, then commits, any subsequent update to that row in arschema will be blocked until that commit on the initial transaction completes. This will occur if Next-ID-Commit:F, which is the default on 7.5. It's not a big issue until

Re: Next Request ID Block Size - Info required

2011-10-12 Thread Rick Cook
I agree with your technical dissection of the construct, Axton. When I presented my findings to BMC a few years ago, their engineers basically said the same thing. I have no problem with the idea behind it, or its function. It certainly has a real value to a relatively few larger customers who

Re: Next Request ID Block Size - Info required

2011-10-12 Thread Axton
They market their apps. If I had,to wager a bet, I would wager that their apps operate better, en mass, with the new default settings. On Oct 12, 2011 12:02 PM, Rick Cook remedyr...@gmail.com wrote: ** I agree with your technical dissection of the construct, Axton. When I presented my

Re: Next Request ID Block Size - Info required

2011-10-12 Thread Guillaume Rheault
Great conversation, and hopefully the bear from the black forest will show up :-) ! The solution to this is probably to steer away from Entry Ids, and rely on GUIDs instead. I think BMC is moving into that direction, when will that happen I don't know. BTW the concept of the next request ID

Re: Next Request ID Block Size - Info required

2011-10-12 Thread Walters, Mark
If you're using next id blocks any unallocated ones are lost when the server restarts. Consider a form with block size set to 10. On the first CreateEntry call to this form the server will read the nextId for the schema from the arschema table and increment it by 10. This transaction is

Re: Next Request ID Block Size - Info required

2011-10-12 Thread Rick Cook
Yup. That's correct, and has been expanded upon by Misi to include Threads, Mark. So I think your equation is actually B X S X T = allocated IDs. To what degree a customer might care about that will vary, and most probably won't as long as they know the cause. But why introduce even a minor

Re: ARS 7.1 Upgrade to 7.6.04 SP1 - Installer ORA ERRORS

2011-10-12 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
I wonder if it a Solaris only upgrade problem. I believe we found it 4 times FIELD_ENUM.ENUMSTYLE, FILTER_NOTIFY.BEHAVIOR, FILTER_NOTIFY.PERMISSION, and SCHEMA_ARCHIVE.ARCHIVEFROMFORM What we ended up doing was to clone the table to a new name, null the affected fields, alter the data type,

Windows 7 and Internet Explorer version 9

2011-10-12 Thread Spangler Robert C CIV USSTRATCOM/JWAC
We are getting ready to upgrade to Windows 7 and Internet Explorer version 9. Does ARS 7.5 and ITSM 7.6 support these? Thanks ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug11 www.wwrug.com

Re: Windows 7 and Internet Explorer version 9

2011-10-12 Thread Guillaume Rheault
There have been posts that there are problems with ITSM 7.6.04 and IE 9 Whether ITSM 7.6.00 is compatible with IE 9... you may be the first one to find out! Guillaume From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] on behalf of

Atrium SSO and CAC Authentication

2011-10-12 Thread Mike Ziniti
Hi, Has anyone successfully implemented Atrium SSO using CAC authentication? If so I'm looking for some help on how to correctly set it up since the documentation and BMC support are quite lacking. TIA, Mike -- View this message in context:

Re: Windows 7 and Internet Explorer version 9

2011-10-12 Thread Matt Laurenceau
The or higher statement on the compatibility matrix is the answer: IE9 is supported :) BMC Support has tips to optimize performances. Take care, Matt Laurenceau Senior Community Ambassador, BMC Communities matthieu_laurenc...@bmc.com Follow me @Matt_L Skype: matt.laurenceau On 12 oct. 2011,

Re: Next Request ID Block Size - Info required

2011-10-12 Thread Walters, Mark
No, next id blocks operate at the server level, not the thread level. Mark From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Rick Cook [remedyr...@gmail.com] Sent: 12 October 2011 18:50 To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re:

Re: Atrium SSO and CAC Authentication

2011-10-12 Thread Matt Laurenceau
Thanks for the heads-up. What do you mean by BMC support are quite lacking. ? (let's fix this :) Take care, Matt Laurenceau Senior Community Ambassador, BMC Communities matthieu_laurenc...@bmc.com Follow me @Matt_L Skype: matt.laurenceau On 12 oct. 2011, at 21:00, Mike Ziniti

Re: Next Request ID Block Size - Info required

2011-10-12 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, Yes, but I am talking about the original default setting of the server: Next-ID-Commit:F Next-ID-Block-Size:1 In this setting, it should not be possible to get a gap. Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://rrr.se If you're using next id blocks any unallocated ones are lost when the

Re: Web Service getlist can not fetech more than 700 records and give request time out

2011-10-12 Thread Chintan Shah
Hi Sameer, As far as I know, there is none..in your web-service designer you can specify the # of records to be retrieved. I generally keep it to 1000 or less. Usually you want to keep the qualification very specific and make sure that it does not return a large data set or if it does then #

Re: Next Request ID Block Size - Info required

2011-10-12 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
By the way, If you do have Next-ID-Commit:T, you would be able to give us the Request ID in filter phase 1. That would be nice :-) Or you could even let us have the Next-ID from an ACTL via something similar to the $PROCESS$ Application-Generate-GUID, where we could set the Entry-ID prior to

Re: ARS 7.1 Upgrade to 7.6.04 SP1 - Installer ORA ERRORS

2011-10-12 Thread patchsk
I have seen very similar errors when we upgraded from ars6.3 to 7.5. It could have been different remedy data dictionary tables but the ora errors are same. As per my memory BMC provided us with some sql scripts to run before running the installer again. The scripts are pretty much similar to

Re: Atrium SSO and CAC Authentication

2011-10-12 Thread Mike Ziniti
We've had a ticket open with BMC support for at least two weeks to troubleshoot the integration to Analytics. So far they have only asked to collect logs and refuse to have a webex. -- View this message in context:

ARERR [402] Incorrect format in the definition file : (bad assign value -- )

2011-10-12 Thread Chintan Shah
Hi all, I am getting this error(in subject line) while opening the form in User tool. From admin tool, it looks fine. I have done tonnes of changes on this form in last few days. It was all working fine until yesterday. I exported def and searched for this -- pattern but didnt find anything.

Re: ARERR [402] Incorrect format in the definition file : (bad assign value -- )

2011-10-12 Thread SriSamSri Appecherla
Few options you may want to try: - Check the API logs (both client and server) - Try saving the form again on Dev Studio - Bounce ARS, if possible Regards, SriSamSri Appecherla Mobile# +61 469747355 On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Chintan Shah cbss...@yahoo.com wrote: ** Hi all, I am

Atrium SSO and CAC Authentication

2011-10-12 Thread John Baker
Mike The JSS SSO Plugin supports CAC and some of BMC's largest clients are using it. I don't believe BMC have any AtriumSSO users with CAC at this point in time. We take support seriously and we can arrange a webex to get it up and running within 24 hours, subject to agreement on a convenient

7.6.04 SP2

2011-10-12 Thread Sanford, Claire
Does anyone see the downloads for this yet? I received the notification for it and some of the problems we are having with our system are corrected in SP2. I looked on the EDP site and did not see it. Claire Sanford Information Systems Division Memorial Hermann Healthcare System System

Re: 7.6.04 SP2

2011-10-12 Thread strauss
I don't see the actual products yet, either. Christopher Strauss, Ph.D. Call Tracking Administration Manager University of North Texas Computing IT Center http://itsm.unt.edu/ -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf

Re: 7.6.04 SP2

2011-10-12 Thread Patrick Zandi
Epd select tab patches select product itsm or favorites... Core sp2/ etc is there. I am awaiting either 3 or 7.7 Sent from my iPhone so typo's or funky words can and do happen! On Oct 12, 2011, at 5:59 PM, strauss stra...@unt.edu wrote: I don't see the actual products yet, either.

Re: 7.6.04 SP2

2011-10-12 Thread Rick Sharp
I downloaded today. Login with your Co support account and its listed under EDP--downloads. Sent via BlackBerry by ATT -Original Message- From: Sanford, Claire claire.sanf...@memorialhermann.org Sender: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) arslist@ARSLIST.ORG

Re: ARERR [402] Incorrect format in the definition file : (bad assign value -- )

2011-10-12 Thread Chintan Shah
Thanks for suggestion SriSam. Apparently, I was trying to def out a newly created AL which resulted in same error...so deleted that AL and its all good now. Wondering if BMC can change the error to make it more meaningful instead of saying bad assign value --. Regards, Chintan.

Re: Windows 7 and Internet Explorer version 9

2011-10-12 Thread Schon, Stuart
We have had numerous issues with IE9 and found you needed to set the compatibility settings to resolve them Stuart Schon Team Leader Fujitsu Australia Limited 2 Julius Avenue, North Ryde NSW 2113, Australia T +61 2 9113 9435 M +61 458 592 245 stuart.sc...@au.fujitsu.com

Re: 7.6.04 SP2

2011-10-12 Thread strauss
It takes longer to get it posted for download under the ITSM Suite links on the EPD site - David E explained that when SP1 came out; I hope to see it this week so that we can start testing. Our 7.6.04.01 + multiple hotfix system is running in production with an awful lot of band-aids and

Re: Windows 7 and Internet Explorer version 9

2011-10-12 Thread Jason Miller
Could these tips be added to a BMCDN document to make them available without having to open a support issue? Jason On Oct 12, 2011, at 12:30 PM, Matt Laurenceau matt.laurenc...@gmail.com wrote: ** The or higher statement on the compatibility matrix is the answer: IE9 is supported :)