Re: To be or not to be a BMC partner

2012-06-20 Thread Support
I don't think John is kidding They also asked us for money (not that much, though ...) On 19/06/2012 23:52, Jose Huerta wrote: ** You're kidding me! On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:28 PM, John Sundberg john.sundb...@kineticdata.com mailto:john.sundb...@kineticdata.com wrote:

Re: To be or not to be a BMC partner

2012-06-20 Thread ALVARO VALDES LOZANO
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Re: To be or not to be a BMC partner

2012-06-20 Thread Jose Huerta
Hola Álvaro, Jose Huerta soy yo. ¿Qué es lo que necesitas? Saludos, Jose Huerta http://theremedyforit.com/ On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:00 AM, ALVARO VALDES LOZANO aval...@caser.eswrote: ** ¿Sabes quién son estos de José Huerta? ** ** *[image: CASER Seguros]* * ALVARO VALDES

Re: To be or not to be a BMC partner

2012-06-20 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi Jose, I am not surprised. I think that BMC has been trying to drop any resellers not doing their quota for many years. I have a group of friends that has been doing full time Remedy-consulting for 10+ years, and BMC still has not seemed interested in having them as a full blown (VAR) reseller.

To be or not to be a BMC partner

2012-06-20 Thread John Baker
John, We contacted them a couple years ago and suggested they may wish to provide SSO Plugin out of the box. They told us they didn't need it as they had a high quality solution of their own. Two years and a few million dollars later, I'm still unable to locate it. John

Re: Filter Table Refresh differ if Admin User...

2012-06-20 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, It turned out that if I changed the permission on the table and underlying join form, the table got refreshed. This definitely seems like a BUG, as filters should ALWAYS run with administrator privileges... Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://www.rrr.se (ARSList MVP 2011) Products

Re: multi-tenancy SLA

2012-06-20 Thread ITSM.Support
Hi, All SVT Target that you want to get attached when ticket is transferred from one tenancy to another, should be grouped under a same Service Target Group. So that when value for company changes, SVT specific to that company satisfying the criteria will get attached HTH -- Regards,

Re: To be or not to be a BMC partner

2012-06-20 Thread Jose Huerta
Just for the record they contacted me an hour ago. Jose M. Huerta Project Manager** Movil: 661 665 088 Telf.: 971 75 03 24 Fax: 971 75 07 94 http://www.sm2baleares.es/ SM2 Baleares S.A. C/Rita Levi Edificio SM2 Parc Bit 07121 Palma de Mallorca

Re: SRM menu options - importing values

2012-06-20 Thread Logan, Kelly
That does help, Tauf; thanks! :^) Kelly Logan, Sr. Systems Administrator (Remedy, Planview), GMS ProQuest | 789 E. Eisenhower Parkway, P.O. Box 1346 | Ann Arbor MI 48106-1346 USA | 734.997.4777 kelly.lo...@proquest.commailto:kelly.lo...@proquest.com www.proquest.com ProQuest...Start here.

Re: Filter Table Refresh differ if Admin User...

2012-06-20 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
Actually if you look at a filter in Developer Studio 7.6.04, in the Properties you will see + Change History - Data Access Get Data As + Full Text Search + Help Text + Integration Workflow And the choices for Data Access are: System | User Fred -Original

Re: To be or not to be a BMC partner

2012-06-20 Thread arslist
You spent a few million dollars trying to find the BMC solution? Going to their web site seems cheaper. [I know it isn't Friday, couldn't resist] Daniel -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of John Baker Sent:

BMC proxy fight - Elliot Mgmt

2012-06-20 Thread Logan, Kelly
Regarding the links that Joel noted (see below), does anyone else have some insight into the accusations made by Elliot Mgmt? Personally, I'm glad that BMC did not completely lose themselves in SaaS, what I see as another 'bubble' technology that will be bursting in the next few years as

ADM: timing test please ignore

2012-06-20 Thread Daniel Bloom
9:30am EST ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: Where the Answers Are

To be or not to be a BMC partner

2012-06-20 Thread John Baker
Well, I certainly didn't as I have a 3 month old developer to clothe and feed. I'm going to put him on the support desk soon, and I'm sure the support he'll offer will contrast well with that discussed in a recent support related thread. :)

Re: Filter Table Refresh differ if Admin User...

2012-06-20 Thread Longwing, LJ CTR MDA/IC
Fred, That is an interesting feature I didn't know existed Misi, A few choice notes from the workflow guide, page 303 Workflow Functions In addition to the Set Fields, Push Fields, and Call Guide actions, setting Get Data As to User affects the workflow functions COLCOUNT, COLAVG, COLMIN,

Re: To be or not to be a BMC partner

2012-06-20 Thread Warren R. Baltimore II
We have learned this month that if you want a response to issues, you have to air your grievance on the list! BMC, that is not a good customer service model! On Wednesday, June 20, 2012, Jose Huerta wrote: ** Just for the record they contacted me an hour ago. Jose M. Huerta Project

Re: BMC proxy fight - Elliot Mgmt

2012-06-20 Thread pritch
Annual meeting is July 25, so I wouldn't expect any fireworks until around then. The interesting thing is one of the votes on the agenda is: 5. TO VOTE ON A STOCKHOLDER PROPOSAL SUBMITTED BY ELLIOTT ASSOCIATES, L.P. AND ELLIOTT INTERNATIONAL, L.P. REGARDING THE REPEAL OF PROVISIONS OR

Re: To be or not to be a BMC partner

2012-06-20 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
I really fail to see why they should charge a prospective reseller those large chunks of change to be a reseller. The way I see it is that, every reseller no matter what the sale conversion ratio is, be it 1 in every 10 years or 1 every quarter - its still a sale. And its not a sale of

Re: To be or not to be a BMC partner

2012-06-20 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
No speak Spanish :-) Just kidding Joe From: Jose Huerta Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 4:50 AM Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: To be or not to be a BMC partner ** Hola Álvaro, Jose Huerta soy yo. ¿Qué es lo que necesitas? Saludos, Jose

Re: BMC proxy fight - Elliot Mgmt

2012-06-20 Thread Rick Cook
I am wondering what Elliott's end game is. Are they simply trying to make stock they own more valuable, or do they have MA ideas? Their actions thus far could lead in either direction. Rick On Jun 20, 2012 9:55 AM, pritch pri...@ptd.net wrote: Annual meeting is July 25, so I wouldn't expect

Re: To be or not to be a BMC partner

2012-06-20 Thread Jose Huerta
Sorry, I though that it was a direct mail. Later I noticed that I sent it to the entire list. Jose M. Huerta Project Manager** Movil: 661 665 088 Telf.: 971 75 03 24 Fax: 971 75 07 94 http://www.sm2baleares.es/ SM2 Baleares S.A. C/Rita Levi Edificio SM2 Parc Bit

Re: BMC proxy fight - Elliot Mgmt

2012-06-20 Thread Campbell, Paul (Paul)
There goes the neighborhood! I hope this doesn't turn out like the Peregrine purchase of Remedy! -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of pritch Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 9:56 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG

Re: To be or not to be a BMC partner

2012-06-20 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
I was just joking anyways – it kind of looked amusing to see a written Spanish conversation on a mostly English speaking list.. From: Jose Huerta Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 10:02 AM Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: To be or not to be a BMC

Re: BMC proxy fight - Elliot Mgmt

2012-06-20 Thread Rick Cook
Oh, I don't know about that. It would seem that BMC is a more attractive acquisition target if it remains undervalued. If Elliott is successful in what it *says* it wants to do, who wants to buy a company selling for full price/value when it could have been had for less? Rick On Jun 20, 2012

Re: BMC proxy fight - Elliot Mgmt

2012-06-20 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I've seen these types of situations play out before, and basically what generally happens is one of two things: 1) the management of the corporation makes some changes to take the wind out of the sails of the activist investor(s), or 2) the management of the corporation is replaced by people

WWRUG presentation

2012-06-20 Thread Jose Huerta
Hi, Currently we are considering to go to WWRUG12. My question is: If I submit a paper proposal and it is accepted, can I save the fees? Or it is now too late? Regards, Jose Huerta http://theremedyforit.com/ ___

Re: BMC proxy fight - Elliot Mgmt

2012-06-20 Thread pritch
Then again, here's a link from about 45 minutes ago : http://finance.yahoo.com/news/elliott-presents-analysis-outlining-multiple-141700446.html - Original Message - From: Paul Campbell (Paul) p...@avaya.com To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 10:13:54 AM Subject: Re:

Re: WWRUG presentation

2012-06-20 Thread arslist
We are accepting submissions until the end of the month, go to www.wwrug12.com On the right is Latest News and under that is Call for Papers. If your paper is accepted one presenter per presentation gets in free. Given your company is planning to be a BMC partner etc. you might want

Microsoft Network Loadbalancing with Midtier and AR-Server Group

2012-06-20 Thread Tobias Ziegler
Hi listers, we plan to implement ITSM 7.6.04 with 3 Midtier servers and an AR-Server Group of 2 AR Servers. As we do not have a hardware loadbalancer available we try to figure out if software loadbalancing is a possibility. Do you have experience with Microsoft NLB in an ITSM environment?

Re: BMC proxy fight - Elliot Mgmt

2012-06-20 Thread arslist
That one just confuses me. First paragraph says major stock holder, then the text says 6.5% That means 93.5% of stockholders aren't them, why does the system allow the hair on the tail to wag the dog? -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)

Re: BMC proxy fight - Elliot Mgmt

2012-06-20 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Most of the stock is held by non-BMC folks. According to http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=BMC+Major+Holders it says that 91% of the shares are held by institutional and mutual fund owners. For example, the top mutual fund holder according to that is DODGE COX STOCK FUND which has 5.10% of

Execution option 'Search' in an Active Link

2012-06-20 Thread Atul Vohra
All, We 7.6.4 and was checking documentation for 'Search' option in an AL and found: Executes when a user performs a search operation. The active link executes before the search operation so that, if the active link criteria is not met, the If actions are not performed. (If Else actions exist,

Is there a bug in the Mid-Tier 7.5 patch 6?

2012-06-20 Thread Pruitt, Christopher (Bank of America Account)
Hello Fellow Listers, I did open a ticket with BMC Support but I find that I can get my questions answer on the ARSList much faster so here goes. I have a question for you Is there a bug in the Mid-Tier 7.5 patch 6? We have a drop down menu on a Display Only form. If the user clicks on the

Re: Microsoft Network Loadbalancing with Midtier and AR-Server Group

2012-06-20 Thread Axton
Based on this it looks possible: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb742455.aspx You will need to make sure that you set the client affinity correctly for the midtier and arservers. It looks like you will be missing out on some commonly used features of a load balancer since the MS

Re: BMC proxy fight - Elliot Mgmt

2012-06-20 Thread Logan, Kelly
Maybe it's time for an open letter on behalf of the people who actually use BMC software to inform the stockholders of the dangers of allowing a private investment firm to push their own people onto the board of directors because they haven't been able to make a compelling enough business case

Re: Is there a bug in the Mid-Tier 7.5 patch 6?

2012-06-20 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
I’m trying to replicate this – what are the exact steps you do to replicate it? I have tried 1) Clicking on the drop down field to reveal the menu 2) Press Escape to cancel click on the drop down 3) Tried typing and nothing happens as it should be.. I am however on 7.6.03 – but is this the way

Re: WWRUG presentation

2012-06-20 Thread Jose Huerta
OK! Is Acceptance based on abstract or final paper? Jose M. Huerta Project Manager** Movil: 661 665 088 Telf.: 971 75 03 24 Fax: 971 75 07 94 http://www.sm2baleares.es/ SM2 Baleares S.A. C/Rita Levi Edificio SM2 Parc Bit 07121 Palma de Mallorca

Re: BMC proxy fight - Elliot Mgmt

2012-06-20 Thread Axton
Most people trade stock to make money. The value of the proposition from asset management firms versus the customers of the products align to that 'money making' goal very differently. What they plan to offer may not be a bad thing. Consider the discussion thread on becoming a partner. On Wed,

Re: BMC proxy fight - Elliot Mgmt

2012-06-20 Thread pritch
3 of the 4 board members being pushed by Elliott are ex HP board members that were around in the days when the current CEO of Oracle was the CEO of HP. And Oracle is one of the companies that seems to continue to come up in the discussions. Coincidence or just a small world? - Original

Re: BMC proxy fight - Elliot Mgmt

2012-06-20 Thread Jon Slaven
I say small world. The number of people who professionally serve on boards is small. I can't find it anymore, but there used to be a diagram around on the intranet that showed the interrelation of the board members of the X largest companies in the US. Thanks, Jon

Forms with multiple number of views and fields

2012-06-20 Thread new_nabble
Hi, I noticed that some of the forms in my server are having multiple views and fields, when comparing with the backup server. (See image) Any help with this issue on how to resolve this. http://old.nabble.com/file/p34044201/1.png Note: All the forms are custom developed and we are on 7.6.03

bmc.dn - Business Process Designer forum

2012-06-20 Thread Brock, Anne
Wanted to let everyone know the Business Process Designer (previously known as Abydos) forum is now live on bmc.dn/communities. Since I managed to move things into it BEFORE it was public (my bad), I was appointed to do the announcement! The forum is at this link:

Re: Is there a bug in the Mid-Tier 7.5 patch 6?

2012-06-20 Thread Pruitt, Christopher (Bank of America Account)
Yes, those are the steps I took on 7.5 Christopher Pruitt Business Consulting III Remedy Developer BMC Certified Administrator: BMC Remedy AR System 7.6.04 HP Enterprises Services christopher.pru...@hp.com www.hp.comhttp://www.hp.com/ [cid:image004.jpg@01CD4EDE.3D049870] Confidentiality Notice:

Query for measuring Attachment length

2012-06-20 Thread Vikram_Betholi
Hi, As part of my implementation i need to find the length of an Attachment and if it is more than 2MB, i need to throw an error message to the user. Can any one let me know what can be the Query to find the Attachment length? With Regards, B.Vikram

Re: Query for measuring Attachment length

2012-06-20 Thread Longwing, LJ CTR MDA/IC
Vikram, If you don't want to allow 2MB, why don't you just set that as the maximum size of the attachment field, and let Remedy handle the errors? -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Vikram_Betholi Sent:

Re: Is there a bug in the Mid-Tier 7.5 patch 6?

2012-06-20 Thread Joe Martin D'Souza
7.5 was a very shaky release, and full of bugs so I wouldn’t be surprised you are having issues like that.. For the very short time I was exposed to that version, it was a living nightmare for me as a developer. Things that you would have taken for granted and built your code within minutes

Re: SRM 7.6.03 Entitlement (SOLVED)

2012-06-20 Thread Sueli Kanegae
The problem wasn´t the Entitlement Rule or the Flush Entitlement Cache. I wish all Support Staff (from few different companies) to see the SRD. The way I could do it was to create a SRD for each company and a People Qualification with '100025' = Yes. Thank you all anyway. Rgds, Sueli

Re: Filter Table Refresh differ if Admin User...

2012-06-20 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, I missed this feature too... I usually read the release notes quite thoroughly, but I did not see this. Which version was it introduced? RRR|Log does not strip out anything from the logged lines, but in this case I checked the setting for Data Access - Get Data As, and it is set to System,

Re: Query for measuring Attachment length

2012-06-20 Thread Misi Mladoniczky
Hi, If you set a Character Field to $Attachment Slot$, you will see the name of the attachemnt prefixed by the Compressed and Uncompressed size, with a delimiter. It is not hard to parse out these numbers if you need to. If you need this as individual fields, store it in an Integer field.

Re: multi-tenancy SLA

2012-06-20 Thread Ahmed Sauga
Thank you for the hint! I now have a better idea! On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 5:06 AM, ITSM.Support itsm.supp...@vyomlabs.comwrote: ** Hi, ** ** All SVT Target that you want to get attached when ticket is transferred from one tenancy to another, should be grouped under a same Service

Re: WWRUG presentation

2012-06-20 Thread arslist
Both. Abstract gives you acceptance (or rejection), but if your final paper is not good or not on schedule you can still be rejected then (and yes, that does mean you would then have to pay to attend if it is then rejected). Not sure if that has happened before. IF you do a good

Wed: Joke

2012-06-20 Thread patrick zandi
*There is a Yankee fan, a Red Sox fan, a Marlins fan and a Cubs fan climbing up to the top of a mountain talking about how loyal they are to their team, and how they would do anything for them. Once they reach the top of the mountain the Marlins fan screams, THIS IS FOR THE MARLINS and jumps off.

Re: WWRUG presentation

2012-06-20 Thread Jose Huerta
I used to write paper to notable conferences when doing my doctorate. So I know what are you talking about. OK. So I have a week to convince my boss to sponsor me to go to the conference in a week. If so, I'll submit an abstract. I have a couple of ideas. Regards, Jose Huerta

Remedy DB refresh and Business Objects

2012-06-20 Thread Peters, Ron
Hi all, I'm working through a developing a process for refreshing our dev/qa environments with production data. We dumped the data from production into dev and I've done a lot of cleanup and re-pointing so Remedy/ITSM is working correctly. That part seems to be fine. The issue I'm having is

Re: Remedy DB refresh and Business Objects

2012-06-20 Thread Nathan Aker
The BO related metadata is stored in the DB under the BOAdmin schema, Remedy data is under ARAdmin. I'm not sure of the steps to get you back pointing to your dev environment. We did something similar and wound up having to pull a contractor back in (the one who set everything up) to clean it

Re: Remedy DB refresh and Business Objects

2012-06-20 Thread Grooms, Frederick W
It sounds like you copied the entire database instead of just the aradmin schema. When copying data from production down to a non-prod database I always say to just do the aradmin data What DB are you using? Can you do a restore from before the copy of the non aradmin schema? Fred

Re: Remedy DB refresh and Business Objects

2012-06-20 Thread Peters, Ron
I can revert to the snapshot (vmware) I took prior to the upgrade. We're working out the proper process and we apparently have it wrong. I talked with the DBA who did the restore and he wasn't familiar with the aradmin schema. We looked at the DB and didn't see anything obvious. This

Re: Remedy DB refresh and Business Objects

2012-06-20 Thread Gangji R
You will need to repoint the BOXI universe (the ITSM universe) to your dev DB. That connectivity info is resident on the BOXI server and so even though you have successfully managed to port ARS between the two systems, the BOXI connection to the ARS DB has not been updated. You can re-point

Re: Remedy DB refresh and Business Objects

2012-06-20 Thread patchsk
I am not an expert with the BO but recently had to self learn while trying to deploy BMC Analytics solution. I am assuming you are using BO with BMC Analytics. When BO is installed it has two options a) Installer installs a small MySQL dirby database within the BO installation to store BO

Re: Remedy DB refresh and Business Objects

2012-06-20 Thread Jose Huerta
Could you list all tables in ARSystem except those starting by t, h or b? I'm suspecting that you are using the same database for ARS and BO. Jose M. Huerta Project Manager** Movil: 661 665 088 Telf.: 971 75 03 24 Fax: 971 75 07 94 http://www.sm2baleares.es/ SM2 Baleares S.A.

Re: Need guidance for indentifying the correct cmdb classes and relationships.

2012-06-20 Thread patchsk
Thanks Jiri for the information. I will check the Data Modelling Guide. On Tuesday, June 19, 2012 5:09:12 AM UTC-7, Jiri Pospisil wrote: ** Hi, The general answer is that you should design the data layout according to your needs, i.e. are you considering using SW license management

Re: Remedy DB refresh and Business Objects

2012-06-20 Thread Peters, Ron
Thanks for all the suggestions. Object Owner: As for the object owner, from what little I know about databases, it seems that it is in the form of [owner].[object]. In our case the owner on all the objects is 'dbo' which from some quick google surfing is the default when a DB is created. I'm

Re: 7.6.04 Exporting reports for import into another server

2012-06-20 Thread George Bonner
Ray, When you export a report to file, ARX or ARXML all the attachments get dumped into a single directory, any duplate names should be resolved automagicly but reality happens...sometimes in unexpected ways. Another option you may not have considered is to use the migrator tool to migrate the

Re: 7.6.04 Exporting reports for import into another server

2012-06-20 Thread Jose Huerta
Have you tried to use RRR|chive? Jose M. Huerta Project Manager** Movil: 661 665 088 Telf.: 971 75 03 24 Fax: 971 75 07 94 http://www.sm2baleares.es/ SM2 Baleares S.A. C/Rita Levi Edificio SM2 Parc Bit 07121 Palma de Mallorca

Re: Wed: Joke

2012-06-20 Thread Warren R. Baltimore II
HEY!! On Jun 20, 2012 3:30 PM, patrick zandi remedy...@gmail.com wrote: ** *There is a Yankee fan, a Red Sox fan, a Marlins fan and a Cubs fan climbing up to the top of a mountain talking about how loyal they are to their team, and how they would do anything for them. Once they reach the top of

Re: Wed: Joke

2012-06-20 Thread Rick Sharp
**Red Sox hater huh? Or a confused Yankee hopeful!! Sent via BlackBerry by ATT -Original Message- From: Warren R. Baltimore II warrenbaltim...@gmail.com Sender: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:35:44 To:

WWRUG12 Submission Update - Four More Great Submissions! Only Eight more days to get your submissions in...

2012-06-20 Thread Phil Bautista
Here is a mid week update since we only have 8 more business days to get topics submitted before the July 1st deadline. These topics caught my eye as ones from some Heavy Hitters that folks have been asking for: The following submission has been made by Jubayer Ahmed from Dell. Topic

Re: Query for measuring Attachment length

2012-06-20 Thread vikram betholi@friends
IF i put the Attachment size in the ar.cfg file as 2MB, it applies to all the customers i have which i really dont want. This 2MB size attachment is specifically for a single customer, which i need to validate before the respective WEBSERVICE gets called. I heard like we can write a DIRECT SQL to