Re: BMC technology day

2009-05-06 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I went to the one in Houston last week and it was good. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Drew Shuller Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 12:08 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: BMC technology day ** Good morning ars-listers, did anyone r

Re: Question on NTE:NotificationMessages

2009-05-06 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Here's a step by step guide I put together. It should help, although some of it may not be specific enough since I just put it together for myself. Thanks, Shawn Pierson 1. Open the form SYS:Notification Messages in the Windows User Tool. 2. Search for the message that you want to modify.

Approval Engine 7.1 Issues

2009-05-06 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Has anyone else run into issues where approval processes that normally function fine on 7.0 don't work correctly maybe 5% of the time on 7.1? We are having approval requests randomly put in a "Closed" status by the approval engine, which is wreaking havoc on our Change Management process. We h

Re: AD Account Disabled Flag in Remedy?

2009-05-04 Thread Pierson, Shawn
In our environment I just disable anything that is 514,546,65538, and 66050. Rather than performing calculations I just did a search for what disabled accounts looked like in our system and gathered those values. Obviously, each of those are 2 numbers higher than our various active accounts.

The proper way to create Assets in 7.0

2009-04-29 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good afternoon, I know a lot of people have created custom workflow to automatically create CIs through various means. We have that here at my company with three different ways of automatically adding or importing CIs into the system. However, they access the system in entirely different ways

Re: Searching for Duplicate Values

2009-04-28 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I agree with those telling you to use SQL, and if you want to perform an update via Remedy, create a view of that SQL and put a View Form on top and use an Escalation to perform the updates. However, you are getting into some tricky areas though. If they are truly duplicates, you should at som

Re: ITSM 7 - Orphaned Tasks

2009-04-22 Thread Pierson, Shawn
c.infrastructure_change_id is NULL AND t.Status <> 6000 and rootrequestformname = 'CHG:Infrastructure Change'); From: Pierson, Shawn Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 8:33 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: RE: ITSM 7 - Orphaned Tasks BMC has known about this issue for a few years n

Re: ITSM 7 - Orphaned Tasks

2009-04-22 Thread Pierson, Shawn
BMC has known about this issue for a few years now (when I first reported it, and others probably found it earlier) but haven't addressed it in a patch yet. What I do is run some SQL every once in a while to cancel those records. Yes, I know it's not the ideal way, but originally I built it thi

Re: ITSM 7 Automatic Task Creation (TMS)

2009-04-21 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I would take it up one level, actually. Since you appear to be creating standard types of change requests, why not create a change template, relate task templates to that change template, and proceed that way? Then you only have to figure out how to use the change template in your process, and

Who is using SRM?

2009-04-21 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning, This should be a rather simple question. How many of you are using BMC's SRM module in production currently? If you are using it, what types of things do you use it for? We bought it and are looking at using it, but it is tedious so I want to make sure we don't invest a lot of

RESOLVED: Custom Approval Question

2009-04-17 Thread Pierson, Shawn
owdhury Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765 Mobile:646.483.2779 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 9:26 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Custom Approval Question ** Good mor

Re: Custom Approval Question

2009-04-17 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Question ** Shawn, Did you make your new field visible on all the AP join forms with Change? Tauf Chowdhury Analyst, Service Management Office: 631.858.7765 Mobile:646.483.2779 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent

Custom Approval Question

2009-04-17 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning, Based on everyone's feedback a few days ago, I decided against using the Change Manager field to do approvals by testers. I set up a new field and have that being populated correctly, but there is an issue I am getting with trying to set up that user as an approver. Basically, I

Re: Etiquette Question: Is Fat Client offensive?

2009-04-17 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I need help now. I had the fat client installed on my PC, and thought I would be a nice guy and help it lose some weight. So I deleted the contents of the C:\Home directory and C:\Program Files\AR System\User\resdlls\ which did make it thinner, but now it doesn't work. Any suggestions? Is th

7.1 and Active Directory 2008 compatibility

2009-04-16 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning, Has anyone tested 7.1 to see if it is compatible with AD 2008? I would look on supportweb to see the compatibility matrix, but it is no longer publicly available due to supportweb being down. Thanks, Shawn Pierson Remedy Developer | Southern Union Private and confidential as

Change Manager Role in Change Management 7

2009-04-15 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good afternoon, I've been thinking about using the Change Manager role on Change Management to reflect testers for changes rather than listing the manager of the group making the change. The reason is because at this point, the person that actually "manages" the schedule and verifies that that

SOLVED: Approval Emails not going out

2009-04-13 Thread Pierson, Shawn
see if there is any additional information in there. This can be done from AP:Administration, Settings: [cid:image001.png@01C9BC49.4BC27740] --- J.T. Shyman From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Monday, April 13,

Re: Approval Emails not going out

2009-04-13 Thread Pierson, Shawn
g out ** Shawn, Was the CHG:Infrastructure Change form previously customized and did you also upgrade ITSM over the weekend or just ARS? --- J.T. Shyman From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Monday, Apr

Approval Emails not going out

2009-04-13 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good afternoon, We upgraded ARS from 7.0 to 7.1 over the weekend and since then the approval engine isn't sending out emails. We have customized the messages in SYS:Notification Messages, but it was done by updating the SYS:Form Fields and such without customizing anything but the Filters resp

Re: Product Categorizations and the Elephant Rhyme

2009-04-09 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I can see how this is helpful when you have staff planted in different locations that act as an extended service desk, but what about issues that require someone in the centralized I.T. group to fix? If someone has a problem with one of your enterprise-wide applications, maybe it should always

Re: Upgrading to SQL 2005

2009-04-06 Thread Pierson, Shawn
We did exactly what you are doing (although we were on a different ARS patch) a year or two ago and everything went smoothly. There is no need to reinstall ARS as it uses the same SQL driver to make the connection. Shawn Pierson From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:ars

Re: Bug Tracking and ITSM suite

2009-04-02 Thread Pierson, Shawn
We dropped a custom ARS-based tool that I built and started using Change Management for tracking bugs, enhancement requests, etc. because BMC Sales told us that Change Management was designed for tracking development work and it could do so wonderfully out of the box. We keep them as changes, a

Re: What purpose does a discovery tool serve?

2009-04-01 Thread Pierson, Shawn
my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry ________ From: "Pierson, Shawn" Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 08:16:07 -0500 To: Subject: What purpose does a discovery tool serve? Good morning, This email was meant as more of a general discussion rather than me being obtuse and no

What purpose does a discovery tool serve?

2009-04-01 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning, This email was meant as more of a general discussion rather than me being obtuse and not really seeing any benefit to using a discovery tool to populate Asset Management. However, I've been discussing this with the CAB manager and I'd like to have a better argument than I do now

Re: Tasks not being activated properly

2009-03-31 Thread Pierson, Shawn
This may be something you already checked, but are these tasks being assigned to anyone? I've seen it happen when tasks are not assigned and the solution was very simple (just assign it.) This may or may not be your issue, but I would check that first if you haven't already. From: Action Requ

Re: How many people using change management for SDLC?

2009-03-25 Thread Pierson, Shawn
We are using Remedy for that, with mixed success. I had to highly customize the approval processes, make some customizations to the Change Management application, and change our development processes to fit the app better. In our situation, BMC had promised us that Change Management was the per

Re: Notifications to Business Users from Change Management

2009-03-11 Thread Pierson, Shawn
ner" was notified and they (being remedy users) could login and determine impact, schedule changes, - and then it was the Key Owner responsibility to notify "the world" of the outage, etc. Make sense? HTH Robert On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Pierson, Shawn mailto:shawn.pie

Notifications to Business Users from Change Management

2009-03-11 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning, Out of curiosity, has anyone found a way to do automated notifications to business users for various change requests by using AD groups? I was thinking that to avoid customizations, I could either use SLM or Tasks, with the AD group email addresses being imported into Remedy via

Re: Asset Management for tracking Software Licenses

2009-03-10 Thread Pierson, Shawn
discussion list(ARSList) on behalf of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Mon 03/09/09 3:25 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Asset Management for tracking Software Licenses Good afternoon, We're currently looking at using Asset management 7 to track software and licenses. In the process of figuring

Asset Management for tracking Software Licenses

2009-03-09 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good afternoon, We're currently looking at using Asset management 7 to track software and licenses. In the process of figuring out how to use Asset Management for this, we've not been able to find any other companies that are actually using the Licensing module. Do any of you use it? If so,

Re: RESOLVED (not really): Business Objects

2009-02-27 Thread Pierson, Shawn
We looked at it and there are potential issues. SSRS uses foreign keys and such to build the relationships for the equivalent of the "Universe" on BOXI. Since Remedy doesn't create foreign keys, it won't know what tables are related. You can still use it, but it's not as simple as BMC Analyti

Re: Business Objects

2009-02-26 Thread Pierson, Shawn
) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 12:15 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Business Objects ** I see. In our environment we have a separate business objects instance maintained by our reporting team that is used for multiple applicat

Re: Business Objects

2009-02-26 Thread Pierson, Shawn
26, 2009 10:55 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Business Objects ** This has nothing to do with ITSM? It is pure ars. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2

Re: Business Objects

2009-02-26 Thread Pierson, Shawn
If your company has another business objects environment, it is possible to install the ITSM universe in that environment and avoid these problems altogether. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Sokol, Brian Sent: Thursday, February 26,

Re: Remedy 7.x + Microsoft TFS

2009-02-26 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I would be interested in this too if anyone responds. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Elinore AR Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:23 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Remedy 7.x + Microsoft TFS hi fol

Re: Remedy Developer, Colorado Springs

2009-02-24 Thread Pierson, Shawn
The problem is that when applying to these jobs, you are screened by an HR person that doesn't know the technology, but reads it and expects you to have three years or more of ARS 7 experience, not general Remedy experience. In those cases, the HR person will sometimes not believe you are telli

Re: Session Timeout Setting

2009-02-23 Thread Pierson, Shawn
We have some set to 600 minutes for users that need to be in all day (the system default is still 30) on 7.0.1 and do not have that issue. Our Mid Tier is still 7.0 as well, and we are on Tomcat, otherwise our systems are similar to yours. In any case, 180 minutes should not be too long. From

Re: Books for Remedy version 6 ,7 and CMDB

2009-02-18 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Also, wouldn't BMC have to give permission to the authors of such a book? How would you handle copyright terms, screenshots, etc.? I always assumed that the reason there are no Remedy books out there is because Remedy/Peregrine/BMC never gave permission to anyone. From: Action Request System

Houston RUG

2009-02-17 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good afternoon, There is currently no formal Remedy User Group in the Houston area. We've attended some meetings put together by consulting firms, which while informative are geared towards selling that company's services. I'm curious if anyone else from Houston is on the list and would be in

Re: Friday Humor - Remedy Song

2009-02-16 Thread Pierson, Shawn
When Jesus was working on the lyrics, I told him another option would be to write one about ITSM, to the tune of "YMCA" and make it sound more positive, but in a sarcastic way. Most of the problems we encounter are not due to ARS, but rather the shoddy code in ITSM, and how some things like the

Re: Remedy Deve3loper Studio 7.5???

2009-02-09 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I have a feeling that as BMC shifts Remedy to be more of a Java tool, they are trying to make it easier for Java Developers to work with the ARS toolset. Notice all the focus over the past few years of making your own plugins and on the focus of making a decent Java API instead of a Java wrappe

Re: Jr. Remedy Developer Needed

2009-01-27 Thread Pierson, Shawn
The ARS List is no place to talk politics, especially in defaming my president. Based on the email address you are using, I'm very surprised you don't have more respect for this country. Shawn Pierson -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl

Re: Jr. Remedy Developer Needed

2009-01-26 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Out of curiosity, what if you are married to a foreign national who gets their citizenship? From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of VanSickle, James W Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 10:26 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Jr. Remedy De

Re: My Entitled Products problem

2009-01-23 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I see all three versions of everything logged in on mine. I think what David is pointing at is that in some cases there are multiple support ids, and that if you don't have the right one that your support contract is tied to, you may not be able to download them. That still doesn't explain why

ITSM 7 Work Info

2009-01-23 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning, I'm curious if anyone else out there has a good explanation for why BMC went from using a Diary field to a separate table for the work log on the ITSM applications. Management here has told the users to fill it out more, and now that they've been doing it, they are upset that the

Re: ARS 7.1 Licenses and Database Log Shipping

2009-01-14 Thread Pierson, Shawn
C Software, Inc. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 1:17 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: ARS 7.1 Licenses and Database Log Shipping ** The questions about upgra

ARS 7.1 Licenses and Database Log Shipping

2009-01-14 Thread Pierson, Shawn
The questions about upgrading to ARS 7.1 lately have gotten me thinking about something. For our disaster recovery solution, we have a failover server sitting in another city, with a different server name, etc. We use log shipping in SQL Server 2005 to keep the two databases synchronized. In

Re: Other shoe just fell, no UserWorld 2009, so on with the ARSlist Awards

2009-01-08 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I'd like to "third" this. I was never notified of BMC UserWorld 2009 being cancelled, except through the ARSList. My company too has money set aside for training and it is disappointing that we won't have this conference available, especially since BMC sales seems to have lost interest in show

Re: Calling an AL Guide through an Escalation

2008-12-23 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Ib, I know you're a smart guy so I'm not going to ask why the Filters don't work and such, so another creative option might be to create another dataset in the CMDB where you update it via SQL or some other means that you know will work, then use the Reconciliation Engine to merge the datasets.

Re: JOBAIDS?

2008-12-18 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I'm pretty sure that jobs aids are just a fancy term for documentation. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Kaiser, Norm E CIV USAF AFMC 96 CS/SCCE Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 1:42 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: JOBAIDS? ** I

Re: Remedy resource available Jan. - Referral Incentive!

2008-12-18 Thread Pierson, Shawn
That depends on what type of work is required. If they want a junior resource for data entry or something like that, then it could be ok. Also keep in mind that some recruiting firms are getting their job requirements from other firms, who are getting it from other firms, and so on. This is ho

Re: ITSM 7 Patch 009

2008-12-11 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I've run into similar problems with ARS Patch 9 when using Active Directory, but haven't seen any threads on it yet. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barb Wagner Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 9:34 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject:

Re: Sending Emails to Groups

2008-12-01 Thread Pierson, Shawn
This sounds like a really big deal. Has BMC said that it's as designed, or is this a bug? This could potentially break Remedy for ITSM applications. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Caruso Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 1:39 PM

Re: BMC Remedy ARS + ITSM Interview Questions

2008-12-01 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I once had an interview where the technical portion consisted of "How do you create a user in Remedy?" then once I answered that sufficiently, the questions were more along the lines of asking me for technical advice because the interviewer was thrown into Remedy and didn't know what he was doin

Strange ARS 7.0.1 Patch 9 bug

2008-11-24 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning, I decided to try going from patch 6 to patch 9, and found a strange bug and wanted to see if anyone else ran into this before. Basically, we use AD authentication for Remedy, but do store all permissions and such in ARS. This has worked fine for my account in the past. However,

Re: SQL Reporing Services - making sense of Remedy Table structure

2008-11-21 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I haven't used SSRS much, but I do recall that it is more difficult to report off of applications like Remedy than .NET applications. The reason being that Remedy doesn't store foreign keys and such to relate to other tables in the DBMS, rather storing relationships like that in the application

Re: ARS for non Trouble Ticketing applications

2008-11-20 Thread Pierson, Shawn
There have been a lot of interesting responses, but there have been a few areas that haven't been covered here that I've either built myself or with a team so I'll list them below. A data-driven ARS-based survey application to tie in with a trouble ticket system, but was created generically eno

Re: Monday Humor: They're ready for a conference now I think

2008-11-18 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Next year, BMC User World will be cancelled to not conflict with a Star Trek convention. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Cook Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 8:13 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Monday Humor: They're ready

Navigation Field Issue on 7.0.1

2008-11-12 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good afternoon everyone, This is something that should be simple, but I can't seem to get it working right. When creating a Navigation Field, I'd like to be able to have all items on all of the menus opened whenever the form opens. Is there some trick to getting it to do it? I've tried mimic

SOLVED: CMDB Web Service

2008-11-12 Thread Pierson, Shawn
their own version. This may make patches and updates difficult, but we haven't tested it fully yet to see what the impact will be. Thanks to all those who responded. _ From: Pierson, Shawn Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 8:44 AM To: ar

Re: CMDB Web Service

2008-11-03 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Peter, Thanks for the email. The web service does seem to be correctly installed, but we have found that calling some methods causes Tomcat to hang up, and others just simply don't work. For testing, we're using the appadmin account just to see if it works, and that still doesn't seem to be w

Re: CMDB Web Service

2008-11-03 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I have a tool called Web Services Studio that is pretty good. Unfortunately, I don't think either we or the vendors know what the data we are pushing should look like, and I'm not sure they are going about it the right way, as they are trying to write directly to the BMC.ASSET dataset. Basical

CMDB Web Service

2008-11-03 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning, Has anyone ever successfully used the CMDB web service? We have a vendor that has come in and is trying to use it, but has been unsuccessful thus far. The only thing that has happened is that when they attempt to access it, Tomcat seems to crash and we can no longer use either t

Re: BMC Elite?

2008-10-20 Thread Pierson, Shawn
19140 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 8:31 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: BMC Elite? Same here. I wonder if they know that they are violating the CAN

Re: BMC Elite?

2008-10-20 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Same here. I wonder if they know that they are violating the CAN-SPAM Act. Perhaps we should find out who is behind it, as they can be fined $11,000 for each individual email they send out. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Luksha, Tim

Re: What's a bug anyway? (Kind of a rant...)

2008-10-15 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Actually, that's one of my favorite examples of inconsistency in ITSM. I don't think it's because the same person created all of those fields, I think it suffers the same problems any other large, long-lasting ARS application does. So to further your complaint, the Change Manager's database nam

Re: Progress Bar on New

2008-10-09 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I've never run into that. The first thing I'd try would be clearing the cache on the Mid Tier, and if that doesn't work, go into the Admin Tool and look at the form. If the Save button is available, click it, and try again after the Mid Tier re-caches. From: Action Request System discussion l

Re: OT:Friday Humor

2008-10-06 Thread Pierson, Shawn
free speech. ROFLMAO ! Have a great weekend ... and don't forget to vote Regards...Gidd From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 9:19 AM To: arslist@ARSLIS

Re: OT:Friday Humor

2008-10-03 Thread Pierson, Shawn
It's hard to tie this in with politics though. Obama drives a Ford Escape Hybrid, which isn't listed here. McCain drives a Cadillac CTS, a 2005 Volkswagen convertible, a 2001 Honda sedan, a 2007 Ford pickup, a 1960 Willis Jeep, a 2008 Jeep Wrangler, a 2000 Lincoln, a 2001 GMC SUV, and his wife

Re: Optional Categorization for Incident Management 7

2008-09-29 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Instead of making a change to the way ITSM route, we chose to publicly ridicule people who don't fill them out and treat them with contempt. I'm joking. Actually, we didn't change the software, but rather made it a best practice and run a report that shows Incidents and Changes without those c

Re: A "higher" calling in AR System 7.5.00

2008-09-26 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I don't have a lot to add right now as I've only skimmed over this, but I agree with those who say this is what the industry has been going towards. Actually, I think BMC (or actually Remedy) should be complimented for how much backwards compatibility they have maintained over the years. I sta

Re: 2008 User World

2008-09-26 Thread Pierson, Shawn
This isn’t directly specifically at Kelly, but at everyone who is in that type of situation. I would be offended if my boss didn’t trust me enough to be professional and do my job. I don’t think I would want to work for someone that didn’t trust me enough to be able to go to Las Vegas for a co

Re: It's official from the BMC UserWorld web site ... October 2009

2008-09-25 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I didn't mean to make a dig at anyone. If what I said gave you any offense I apologize because that was not my intent. I was thinking more of my own reputation. Sometimes I find it more interesting to participate in discussions that we all feel passionate about like this and say negative thin

Re: It's official from the BMC UserWorld web site ... October 2009

2008-09-25 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Actually, a coworker of mine who focuses more on the Asset Management side got an email asking if he'd like to go to BMC and help test some aspects of Asset Management with real-world data and test cases. I'm hoping that they do this with every module, and if so we may see BMC's reputation in t

Re: It's official from the BMC UserWorld web site ... October 2009

2008-09-24 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Susan, While I agree with your feelings on the matter, I don't think BMC is going to do any of the things you suggest. Also, I sent my sales rep an email after the news of it being cancelled, and have been in contact with him as an "outlet" rather than the ARSList. Sometimes it's better to ha

Re: OT: Hurricane Ike

2008-09-18 Thread Pierson, Shawn
motely for awhile I would offer my home. Afterall, the arslist is an extended family of sorts. Susan On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Pierson, Shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: ** Good morning everyone, I just wanted to check in and see if everyone else in th

Re: OT: Hurricane Ike

2008-09-18 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Thursday, September 18, 2008 9:45 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: OT: Hurricane Ike ** You don't need to apologize for the post, Shawn. We're family here, and we're concerned about you, Claire, the BMC offices, and others that got hit by this. Keep us posted, please

OT: Hurricane Ike

2008-09-18 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning everyone, I just wanted to check in and see if everyone else in the Houston area on this list is doing well or not. Sorry to clog up the ARSList with non-Remedy stuff, but we've got major problems down here that aren't being reported on in the national news, and I just wanted to s

Re: OT: SQL2005 Upgrade

2008-09-08 Thread Pierson, Shawn
We did this and ran into no issues. We have a pretty straight-forward Remedy implementation, with the DB on a remote server so it was just a matter of the DBAs copying over the appropriate files and setting up ARSystem on the new 2005 server, and my team updating the ar.cfg file to point to the

Re: Can Remedy run case insenitive?

2008-09-04 Thread Pierson, Shawn
It is possible to set up a database to be case insensitive in Oracle. The Remedy limitation is really an Oracle limitation. By default, Oracle is case sensitive, and your DBA should either know or be able to figure out how to make your ARSystem database case insensitive. However, as far as I

Re: BMC UserWorld Miami is being rescheduled

2008-09-04 Thread Pierson, Shawn
do not necessarily reflect those of BMC Software, Inc. My voluntary participation in this forum is not intended to convey a role as a spokesperson, liaison or public relations representative for BMC Software, Inc." Axton Grasm On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Pierson, Shawn <[EMAIL P

Re: BMC UserWorld Miami is being rescheduled

2008-09-04 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I'd like to echo that David Easter's message to the ARSList is the only "official" communication I got about this. I contacted my sales rep, but I got the impression that my inquiry was the first he had heard about it as well. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Issue with Change Management and Tasks (ITSM 7)

2008-09-03 Thread Pierson, Shawn
We have implemented something similar here as well. We use the Change Type to differentiate between various approval processes, as a "Change" can be used for development work, but every modification to Production (which is also tracked in the Environment field) requires a related "Release". Yo

Re: BMC UserWorld Miami is being rescheduled

2008-08-31 Thread Pierson, Shawn
To go further on that, most companies have training budget for each seperate year, and if they push the conference past the end of the year, then they are making life harder for all of their customers' accounting. For example, I already paid for registration, air travel, etcl, but if the hotel

Re: FYI: BMC UserWorld Miami is being rescheduled

2008-08-29 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I also got no email other than Mr. Easter's to the ARS List (which I appreciate him doing). However, if you go to the BMC User World site, you will also see that they display the same message that was in this email. I hope that they can keep it the same time frame as well as in Miami, but based

Re: FYI: BMC UserWorld Miami is being rescheduled

2008-08-29 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Does this also mean BMC is offering to pay the airlines to modify our flights if we already bought non-refundable tickets? From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Easter, David Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 11:08 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Su

Is AIE in 7.1

2008-08-25 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning all, It's Monday and I'm trying to figure out if I need to upgrade to ARS 7.1 or not and have a question. I seem to recall something about AIE (formerly EIE) included in ARS 7.1. Is this correct, or am I mixing it up with 7.5? Thanks, Shawn Pierson Private and confidential a

Re: Installing Knowledge Management

2008-08-25 Thread Pierson, Shawn
We ran into a similar problem. I don't recall the precise resolution, but it involved Tomcat settings. IIS also should not have the virtual directory because that's something Tomcat should handle and may cause problems for you. To see if it's installed correctly in Tomcat, go to http://remedy

Re: importing data from sql to remedy

2008-08-18 Thread Pierson, Shawn
It's possible, although I've never used it for that purpose. The reason being that it's easy to set up a view form based on the SQL table outside of ARS that you want to pull data from, then use escalations and filters to pull that into the ARS tables you need. However, if you're talking about

Re: Giving users access to Categorizations, Approvals, and Assignments in ITSM

2008-08-12 Thread Pierson, Shawn
tions, Approvals, and Assignments in ITSM ** How about a control panel-type form that would contain one or more table fields displaying the information? You could even make it push the selected value to an Incident. Rick On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Pierson, Shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<ma

Giving users access to Categorizations, Approvals, and Assignments in ITSM

2008-08-12 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Good morning, I have a request that seems logical from the help desk group at my company, but in thinking about it I'm surprised that this information is not already available somewhere. Basically, my users want to be able to see what all the possible categorizations are (both Operational and

Re: Salary in Bay Area

2008-08-06 Thread Pierson, Shawn
set at 100 >> >>> minimum an hour. And Shawn is COMPLETELY correct about that 15%, > in >> fact I >> >>> go 12% tops. Anything more then that and you are getting > robbed. >> It's not >> >>> like we don't get 10-15 calls a

Re: Help setting up approval Server

2008-08-06 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Sivarama, Unfortunately, setting up custom approval processes can be complex. Additionally, depending on how different your process is from the OOtB process, you may have trouble setting it up and require some customization to enforce the process. To get started with basic customizations of t

Re: Pager Service in ITSM7

2008-08-06 Thread Pierson, Shawn
If your goal is to have ITSM7 emails go out to a pager rather than just a group or individuals, what you can do is create a "fake" Person record, assign the pager email address to that record, then add them to the group and mark them as unavailable for assignment. The email will go out to every

Re: Salary in Bay Area

2008-08-05 Thread Pierson, Shawn
That's strange but it makes sense that the bay area would pay less than the rest of the country due to an overabundance of Remedy people. You can probably get six figures as a Remedy developer with more than ten years just about anywhere in the U.S. if you are working on ITSM, although no perso

Re: Categorizations...

2008-07-28 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Couldn't you do this by also looking at the Location information instead? If not location, what criteria is used to determine which group gets assigned the work? In our case, we use location because each location has their own local I.T. help, separate from the actual help desk. If there is s

Re: Can Client 5.1.2 be used while the ARS server has been upgraded to 7.1

2008-07-28 Thread Pierson, Shawn
Not to mention that even if it does appear to work, BMC support will not help you with issues if you encounter them with this configuration because it is not supported. I agree with the client upgrade being done first in this case. -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussi

Re: Buy vs. Build

2008-07-28 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I don't know if this is related to what we all have been complaining about, but BMC's stock price just took a dive last Friday. They lost about 7% of their stock price in a single day. I haven't investigated why, but it isn't a good thing. If their sales are down, or if ITSM is getting bad pr

Pros and Cons of ARS development - was Buy vs. Build

2008-07-24 Thread Pierson, Shawn
I want to change the topic slightly and go off on a tangent that keeps coming up repeatedly. That topic is of the power of ARS for development. While I agree that ARS is great, I would have to qualify that to say that if you want to build an application that is within its capabilities, it is gr

Re: Buy vs. Build

2008-07-22 Thread Pierson, Shawn
In addition to that, based on what I've seen, Remedy ARS developers get paid a lot more than .NET developers. Factor into that the difficulty in finding ARS developers, and management is more likely to pursue custom .NET development work as opposed to custom ARS development. If you leave the c

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