Re: How calculate the Aging of an Incident & show it in overview console?

2018-02-05 Thread Gordon Frank
Aging can be done through the "Modulus" function. "%" Do something like Days % 5 to have something fire every 5 days (Business Week). Or Days % 30 for every month. Of course you need to compte "Days" using something like ((($TIMESTAMP*60)*60)*24) or something like that. Or use a built in functi

Federation of an external data file

2016-03-02 Thread Gordon Frank
is federated, can you then relate a record to an Incident? The documentation I am referencing is the "BMC Atrium Core 9.1," pages 1193 and 1201 Gordon Frank ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.a

Re: Parameter which controls Change Request open\modify

2015-10-30 Thread Gordon Frank
aved. Settings for Incident, Problem, Change… > > > > Dave > > > > *From:* Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto: > arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] *On Behalf Of *Gordon Frank > *Sent:* Friday, October 30, 2015 9:40 AM > *To:* arslist@ARSLIST.ORG >

Parameter which controls Change Request open\modify

2015-10-30 Thread Gordon Frank
Hello, I believe there is a parameter which controls the immediate workflow of Change Requests. I can't remember it. The scenario is: 1. Bring up Change Request - New 2. Submit a New Change Request 3. The submitted change request is echoed back to the Change Request screen for further modificatio

Adding fields to the CMDB

2015-10-05 Thread Gordon Frank
What is the best document discussing the addition of new fields to the CMDB? Thanks up front, Gordon ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"

Re: Several custom fields disapeared from our CHG:Infrastructure Change form

2015-09-11 Thread Gordon Frank
r touching that field. Anyways, it works and Thanks I owe you all a beer. On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Gordon Frank wrote: > Did your Role mappings (or the groups that were mapped) change? > Application states? > (those are both odd things to have changed, but you never know) > >

Re: Several custom fields disapeared from our CHG:Infrastructure Change form

2015-09-11 Thread Gordon Frank
e. What are the OOTB settings for these? On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Thad Esser wrote: > ** > Did your Role mappings (or the groups that were mapped) change? > Application states? > (those are both odd things to have changed, but you never know) > > -Thad > > O

Re: Several custom fields disapeared from our CHG:Infrastructure Change form

2015-09-11 Thread Gordon Frank
m fields disapeared from our > CHG:Infrastructure Change form > > > > ** > > Did your Role mappings (or the groups that were mapped) change? > Application states? > > (those are both odd things to have changed, but you never know) > > > > -Thad > > > > On Fri

Re: Several custom fields disapeared from our CHG:Infrastructure Change form

2015-09-11 Thread Gordon Frank
If you are server grouped make sure when viewing from the "thick client" you are logged into your primary server - definition cache interval may not have taken place yet for secondary servers. We are not server grouped and I mainly use the "thick client" for convenience sometimes (Ctrl-T still wor

Re: Several custom fields disapeared from our CHG:Infrastructure Change form

2015-09-11 Thread Gordon Frank
e first thing that comes to mind. > > Good luck with it! > -JDHood > > On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Gordon Frank wrote: > >> ** >> All, >> >> I am working with CHG:Infrastructure Change with several custom Tabs >> added to the >> >>

Re: Several custom fields disapeared from our CHG:Infrastructure Change form

2015-09-11 Thread Gordon Frank
OPERATIONS wrote: > 1) Flush Cache on Midtier > 2) Did you change the permissions on the tabs recently? > 3) Flush your browser cache > > Lisa > > -Original Message- > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto: > arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Be

Several custom fields disapeared from our CHG:Infrastructure Change form

2015-09-11 Thread Gordon Frank
All, I am working with CHG:Infrastructure Change with several custom Tabs added to the "z2PH ChangeInfo" Page Holder. Everything in the Page Holder disappeared suddenly on both the web\MidTier client and Thick Client. This was not just the custom fields. The OOTB Tabs and fields disappeared as

What Companies use a BMC Remedy FrontEnd?

2015-05-05 Thread Gordon Frank
What companies use a BMC Remedy FrontEnd for their external webpages? I've heard that there are a few and I'd like to look at their home page. The rumor mill mentioned a few, but ARSList is big enough that several of you are probably using it. What are you experiences? -- [image: Crab] Gordon

Looking for a document

2015-03-18 Thread Gordon Frank
I know there is a document which has all of the SQL code which is used when ARSYSTEM is built. Does anyone know the document which has this? I can't remember which one it is. Thanks Gordon Frank ___ UNSUBSCRI

Re: Problem with a Java Plugin, .arxm file and "xercesImpl.jar"

2014-11-14 Thread Gordon Frank
and you are not giving any indication on where it is failing, then > this could be why you haven't had many replies. > > -- > Danny Kellett > dkell...@javasystemsolutions.com > > > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2014, at 03:09 PM, Gordon Frank wrote: > > ** > I guess we

Re: Problem with a Java Plugin, .arxm file and "xercesImpl.jar"

2014-11-14 Thread Gordon Frank
I guess we are the only ones doing Data Import through a Java Plugin? No one has responded, so I am starting to feel that ARSList doesn't have the answers or just easy questions are answered. I will have to look elsewhere. :( Gordon On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Gordon Frank wrote:

Problem with a Java Plugin, .arxm file and "xercesImpl.jar"

2014-11-12 Thread Gordon Frank
nually, but not with the original Java Plugin. I haven't done Java much, so is there a missing step? Thanks Gordon Frank ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"

ARERR(330)

2014-07-03 Thread Gordon Frank
you know the old saying about Assuming: "A.s out of U and me!" 6. Once I added this, everything worked normally. I decided to add this to ARSList, because it drove me nuts for a while and Communites was no help. Let me know i

Re: How to generate .arx file in ITSM 7.6.04

2014-06-30 Thread Gordon Frank
In 7.6.4, you can still execute RUNMACRO from the command line. It will dump to .arx. After 7.6.4, you'll have to use ARExport. On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Misi Mladoniczky wrote: > Hi, > > You might want to try RRR|Chive. The tool can both export and import > ARX-files, and it is free t

Re: Remedy Developer Performance Metrics

2014-06-04 Thread Gordon Frank
If what you are looking for is the old "Lines of Code" (LOC) measure used in the COCOMO Model and others, then I have always equated an Action Request System (ARS) object (Active Links, Active Link Guides, Filters, Filter Guides, Menus and Escalations - Not Forms) to 50 lines of code. I believe thi

Error when migrating Change Templates with Task Groups\Task Templates across environments

2014-05-29 Thread Gordon Frank
I recently ran into an interesting migration problem with Task Groups. The error I got when I was opening a new Change Template was the following: "The Assignment Information is not valid. Please use the menus provided on the 'Assignee Company', 'Assignee Organization' and 'Assignee Group' or the

SRM Error

2014-05-01 Thread Gordon Frank
When executing a Deployed SRD through SRM Request Entry, we get: "Error during loading document" The syntax of this message must have been translated from French, but English aside, I believe this is a result of a corrupted "questions," "variables" or something else. Can anyone point to a scient

Re: OT:Scientist warns that the robot apocalypse really is coming unless steps are taken now

2014-04-22 Thread Gordon Frank
Interesting discussion. What would an aware robot be like? Terminator - Bad? or Good? HAL - 2001 Data - Star Trek TNG Sonny - iRobot Samantha - Movie "Her" Rainman - Not a robot, but like the Dustin Hoffman famous character Other??? My thought is Rainman like On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Ri

Last object executed

2014-01-06 Thread Gordon Frank
I seem to remember a plug-in or Run Process which would allow you to view the name of the the last object executed (Active Link, Filter, Escalation, etc.) We have an intermittent occurrence that could be caught through a trap (Filter, etc.) with such a plug-in (or we leave a log on forever :) )

Archiving using MS SQL Server Linked Server or Linked Table

2013-12-05 Thread Gordon Frank
Hello all, Has anybody had experience with archiving ITSM data to an archive DB and then being able to perform Read-Only queries on all of it through some "linked" capability? I am investigating the concepts of Linked Server or Linked Table, but this may be the wrong direction. The term "chai

OT - All time great error messages - Just for fun!

2013-10-18 Thread Gordon Frank
** This might be fun on a Friday!   The best\non-useful error message I have ever seen was on an old Data General RDOS Mini-Computer (remember those?)   A "system level" violation came back and said:   >Error: You Can't Do That   BMC Remedy is full of these and they need to at least point you to an

Re: WWRUG13, Tommy Tutone

2013-10-04 Thread Gordon Frank
that it is a "custom" message rather than an OOTB.   Keep it Fun!   Gordon Frank From: "Doug Blair" To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORGSent: Thursday, October 3, 2013 8:21:55 PMSubject: WWRUG13, Tommy Tutone** Hi Listers Yes, Tommy Tutone's "867-5309 (Jenny)" w

Re: WWRUG13

2013-10-02 Thread Gordon Frank
an     From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Gordon Frank Sent: October 2, 2013 4:28 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: WWRUG13   ** Doug,   Thanks for the update and Thanks for letting the folks who couldn't attend ha

Re: WWRUG13

2013-10-02 Thread Gordon Frank
ll noticed last year. Doug Mueller needed to duck though. Enjoy and I wish I were there! Gordon Frank - Original Message - From: "Blairing" To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Tuesday, October 1, 2013 8:28:05 PM Subject: Re: WWRUG13 ** Claire et al, Sorry, I s

Re: Service Desk agents experience delays when opening Templates in Remedy while using Internet Explorer 9.

2013-08-21 Thread Gordon Frank
s not, it tends to work ok but not when Chrome is used simultaneously – so I have begun to discard IE altogether and just use Chrome or FireFox because IE basically sucks anyways..   Joe   From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [ mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG ] On Beha

Service Desk agents experience delays when opening Templates in Remedy while using Internet Explorer 9.

2013-08-21 Thread Gordon Frank
secs., which can cause significant delays to the Service Desk agents performance.   Templates are created to aid in speeding up the Service Desk agents work, but are not being utilized to the fullest extent because of the delays."   Go

Re: The value(s) for this entry violate a unique index that has been defined for this form, 382 when saving an Active Link (UNCLASSIFIED)

2013-08-12 Thread Gordon Frank
. Does anyone know if this has been fixed in 8.1? We are at 7.6.4 and will soon migrate to 8.1. I can live with doing "Record Object Relationships" on demand and restart the server, but it is ackward. Thanks again and if I hear anything else, I'll let you know Gordon

Re: The value(s) for this entry violate a unique index that has been defined for this form, 382 when saving an Active Link (UNCLASSIFIED)

2013-08-09 Thread Gordon Frank
the feedback. Thanks Gordon Frank Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"

Re: SLM 7.6.04 Service Target Milestones not appearing on Incident

2013-08-09 Thread Gordon Frank
. Thanks Gordon Frank ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"

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2013-06-17 Thread Gordon Frank
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Re: CMDB submit not working on BMC.CORE forms

2013-04-19 Thread Gordon Frank
rt to work. - Original Message - From: "Rick Cook" To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 3:33:58 PM Subject: Re: CMDB submit not working on BMC.CORE forms ** What kind of errors are you seeing?  Rick On Apr 19, 2013 11:09 AM, "Gordon Frank" < gjj...@co

Re: CMDB submit not working on BMC.CORE forms

2013-04-19 Thread Gordon Frank
--Original Message----- From: Gordon Frank To: arslist Sent: Fri, Apr 19, 2013 2:08 pm Subject: Re: CMDB submit not working on BMC.CORE forms ** Rick,   Basically I can not push data to one of these forms from a Filter using a Push action.   Basically it is submitting a record. I co

Re: CMDB submit not working on BMC.CORE forms

2013-04-19 Thread Gordon Frank
nt: Friday, April 19, 2013 1:51:48 PM Subject: Re: CMDB submit not working on BMC.CORE forms ** When you say you cannot submit, can you be more specific? Rick On Apr 19, 2013 10:09 AM, "Gordon Frank" < gjj...@comcast.net > wrote: ** Hello,   Has anyone run into a s

CMDB submit not working on BMC.CORE forms

2013-04-19 Thread Gordon Frank
Group and Support Groups all look the same. Any help or ideas are appreciated and Thanks, Gordon Frank ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"

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2013-04-13 Thread Gordon Frank
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JOB: Remedy Developer position at NASA Goddard and Exelis, Inc

2012-12-05 Thread Gordon Frank
Systems Admin III (Exelis Title) Functional Title (Remedy Developer/Administrator) Exelis has an exciting opportunity working with NASA providing mission network planning and integration services, systems and network engineering, operations, maintenance, development and sustaining engin

Re: OT - Twinkies! Oh No!

2012-11-18 Thread Gordon Frank
a local store (filled a shopping cart). He was going to sell them on EBay. Rick On Nov 17, 2012 8:53 AM, "Gordon Frank" < gjj...@comcast.net > wrote: ** http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/11/twinkies-pop-culture?pid=8568 From: "Jason Miller" < jason.mil...

Re: OT - Twinkies! Oh No!

2012-11-17 Thread Gordon Frank
, Shellman, David < dave.shell...@te.com > wrote: ** Twinkies in pop culture. http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/11/twinkies-pop-culture On Nov 16, 2012, at 1:44 PM, "Gordon Frank" < gjj...@comcast.net > wrote: ** Make your own   http://today.msnbc.msn

Re: OT - Twinkies! Oh No!

2012-11-16 Thread Gordon Frank
Make your own http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/38681430/ns/today-food/t/make-your-own-twinkies-top-secret-recipe/ Gordon ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.co

Re: HUMONGOUS table

2012-11-14 Thread Gordon Frank
Can't you systematically dump it to flat files, delete the period you just dumped and zip them and then keep going? Your version still has RUNMACRO. Try this: "\BMC Software\ARSystem\runmacro.exe" -o "\Data\" -x "" -U "Demo" -P "" -f "" -t arx -a < -q "'3' < ($DATE$ -(10*60*60*24*1))"

Re: CI's

2012-11-08 Thread Gordon Frank
One rule of thumb that I like to use is: What does your business report on? What is important to the business? To use Dougs example below, a smart telephone could be mapped to ~5-10 CIs. But would you report or manage all of this information? Probably not. You might just be intereste

Re: Real Number Format Issue

2012-11-06 Thread Gordon Frank
If your getting a "&" in your data, it sounds like you need to filter these out be fore loading them. If the original data is in a text format, any editor can do it. I use Notepad++ because its free and fairly powerful. You can also use a MERGE Filter on data load to filter out the special

Re: Ar escalator modifying estimated resolution time

2012-11-05 Thread Gordon Frank
There a couple of ways to stop escalations from messing up modified dates and times that I can think of off the top of my head. One requires your to and "AND $USER$ != "AR_ESCA LATOR" to the modifying Filters. Escalations always use a userid of "AR_ESCALATOR" The other is the change the f

Re: Runmacro

2012-11-02 Thread Gordon Frank
bs. :) On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Gordon Frank < gjj...@comcast.net > wrote: ** What is the replacement for runmacro in 8.0?   I use it in Command Line dumps from forms. It makes it real easy to integrate it into scheduled jobs     Gordon Frank _attend WWRUG12

Runmacro

2012-11-01 Thread Gordon Frank
What is the replacement for runmacro in 8.0? I use it in Command Line dumps from forms. It makes it real easy to integrate it into scheduled jobs Gordon Frank ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at

Re: Monthly Summary Reports

2012-10-29 Thread Gordon Frank
What you'll need to do is create a hidden field which holds month in it. You will need a translation Filter to take the Month number and translate it to January, February   This Filter will work on the fly. Every record will have a value in it. It's a little bit of overhead, but AR

Re: BIRT Reports

2012-10-29 Thread Gordon Frank
One maintenance trick which will pay off later.   Your calculation of 1209600 is (60*60*24*14).   It terms of maintenance, use "(60*60*24*14)"   Several times in the life-cycle of a system, you may want to just change 14 to 7 or something else. You can make the 14 a variable which is

Re: You need to VOTE on the thread: Bring back the ARSList MVP for 2013

2012-10-24 Thread Gordon Frank
Yes! ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"

Re: WWRUG BMC Sale Rumors

2012-10-22 Thread Gordon Frank
Great response Dan!!! - Original Message - From: "arslist" To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 1:02:13 AM Subject: Re: WWRUG BMC Sale Rumors As usual John, you like being a rabble rouser. 1st: You post a WWRUG special when you aren't even a vendor there, and di

"Z" Time indicator in Remedy ARS

2012-08-29 Thread Gordon Frank
All, I seem to remember setting date format to  "Z" for Zulu instead of "AM" or "PM" for military time in ARS. Rather than look back in my old code, I thought I'd ask the list (I'm Lazy and some of you military folks probably do this as a rule

Re: Clear Button on the Mid-Tier

2012-06-06 Thread Gordon Frank
I had forgotten about the field ID. Thanks and I will dig a little deeper to see if somethings a little off on the   form . Thanks - Original Message - From: "Joe Martin D'Souza" To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 1:31:43 PM Subject: Re: Clear Button o

Clear Button on the Mid-Tier

2012-06-06 Thread Gordon Frank
Does anyone know if there is a control for the Clear button on the Mid-Tier? I have a user that says it doesn't do anything. Or is this user error? I'm having a hard time finding anything which would enable\ disable the Clear button. I don't think it makes sense to disable this  button.

Re: Its friday again......Heaven or Hell??? Surely experienced by some of us.....

2012-06-01 Thread Gordon Frank
I wonder if there is beer in Hell? Or do they only make it for recruits? - Original Message - From: "arslist" To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Friday, June 1, 2012 9:13:06 AM Subject: Re: Its friday again..Heaven or Hell??? Surely experienced by some of us. ** It is the lat

Re: OT: Saturday Humor.. Syncing my iPhone...

2012-05-21 Thread Gordon Frank
That's not the best one I ever saw. Data General Eclipse computers gave a system error that said "You Can't Do That" That's probably why DG doesn't exist any more. - Original Message - From: "Joe Martin D'Souza" To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2012 6:00:2

Shareware ARS Calendar

2012-04-24 Thread Gordon Frank
is a function which calculates Days of the Week, but my goal is not to have to write it. Kudo's if it does week views and daily views. A Def file would be great! Gordon Frank ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or a

Re: Book on Remedy...

2012-04-02 Thread Gordon Frank
cks "book" back 3-4 years ago) 6. Secrets that not everyone knows (ARSList could feed this) 7. G otchas 8. etc. Time is the problem, but there is enough expertise out their that it could be done. Gordon Frank Ex elis, Inc - Original Message - From: "ric

Re: Kinetic Request at WalMart

2012-03-24 Thread Gordon Frank
When does BMC buy out Kinetic? Any bets? This seems to be the trend. Might be a good thing.   Here's one: When does Oracle buy out BMC? Peoplesoft, Sun, Java, Remedy, Kinetic, Numara, Business Objects - TBD, when does SAP say enough?. Of course then Microsoft will include it all in thei

Re: Monday funny: Architectural advice

2012-03-05 Thread Gordon Frank
How about this one: "15 minutes could save you 15% or more!" 15% of what? Coming from a Gecko doesn't really mean much to me. I think they should substitute a Caveman. Oh wait, they did!! :) Advertisers! You gotta love them! - Original Message - From: "Joe Martin D'

Re: Standalone CMDB

2012-02-20 Thread Gordon Frank
Feb 20, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Gordon Frank < gjj...@comcast.net > wrote: ** Hello ARSLIST,   Has anyone implemented a standalone CMDB off a custom application?   I'm looking for documentation of Best Practices or pitfalls to watch out for when tying the custom forms and CMDB

Standalone CMDB

2012-02-20 Thread Gordon Frank
Hello ARSLIST, Has anyone implemented a standalone CMDB off a custom application? I'm looking for documentation of Best Practices or pitfalls to watch out for when tying the custom forms  and CMDB Application together. If not much doc, then let me know your experiences. Thanks up

Results List Refresh

2011-12-21 Thread Gordon Frank
Does anyone know of a trick to automate a Results List refresh? Something other than turning on Auto-Refresh. I'd like to force a refresh when a specific event occurs. I'm thinking there might be a Run Process function or something like that. Gordon

Field 112 on Base Element

2010-12-15 Thread Gordon Frank
We are getting a Field 112 "fill-up" error on our Base Element form. The field is sized to 255. The Field name is: "CMDB Write Security" Can Field 112 in this case, be increased to unlimited? (0) What side-modifications would we have to make as well? We have CMDB 7.6 Patch 1 Thanks Gor

Re: Integer field sequence number

2008-06-23 Thread Gordon Frank
Another idea is to have a separate form for sequence numbers. You would have to do a submit/delete sequence so that you always maintain one record with the up-to-date sequence number. Gordon Frank Remedy Skilled Professional ITIL V3 Foundation Certified On Jun 23, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Ravi

Import into MS Access through a Remedy ARS Button and Active Link

2007-09-05 Thread Gordon Frank
I tried this once with no response. I'll try it again. Hello, Has anyone done an import of MS Access from an Active Link? I believe you can do it through series of DDE actions, but I'm having trouble with the right combination. I believe the first one has to be [OpenDatabase "database"], and the

Import into MS Access through a Remedy ARS Button and Active Link

2007-08-21 Thread Gordon Frank
Hello, Has anyone done an import of MS Access from an Active Link? I believe you can do it through series of DDE actions, but I'm having trouble with the right combination. I believe the first one has to be [OpenDatabase "database"], and the following actions should include a TransferText, etc. D