Re: WARNING: 7.6.X DDM AND ITSM

2012-06-12 Thread Kagan, Ramon
HI, We acknowledge that hard deletion of records is not something that is currently designed for with the DDM tool. The general consideration on this was due to the fact that "soft" deletion is the prolific model officially designed for in the applications. While hard deletes are possible, th

Re: ITSM upgrade

2011-01-24 Thread Kagan, Ramon
Can you better describe your upgrade scenario and the failure itself. What versions/products are you upgrading from? Is it just ITSM, or ITSM + SRM? + SLM?, etc? What was the failure? Ramon Kagan, MBA, PMP Manager, Product Development BMC Software From: Action

Re: ITSM Data Wizard - Company Merge

2010-12-15 Thread Kagan, Ramon
HI Peter, I would not recommend disabling the workflow, it is there specifically to guard you. Merging of companies is more complicated than just the company name. All dependant data will be updated as well and may result in collisions (e.g. approval, auto-assignment, etc). This is not a su

Re: ITSM 7.6.3 Slow Start Up Time

2010-12-02 Thread Kagan, Ramon
Frank, Not knowing your complete environment 5 minutes for the stack you show here looks to be fairly normal as the caches are being built during startup time. However, as Dave Easter stated in his reply, please ensure the preload thread options are in fact configured and enabled. The ITSM in

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

2010-10-22 Thread Kagan, Ramon
ch we did and still no success. May be "HPD:Help Desk_SLA" (which is out of the Box) is another form that needs to be deleted. This is definitely good information for other customers. Thanks Mahesh On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Kagan, Ramon mailto:ramon_ka...@bmc.com>> wrote:

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. __

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 fo