Hi listers,
My organization is researching chat as a medium for customers to get
support. Using Remedy or another tool that integrates with Remedy.
Any experience, information you can share would be great. We are asking
basic questions such as how well Remedy's (v8) chat has worked for others,
is
agreed. 10 recruiters later (literally), I'm starting to cringe just at
the name of Walnut Creek.
On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 5:29 PM Rick Cook wrote:
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> Yeah, I talked to some folks a while ago about positions there. The rates
> don't reflect a Bay area economy.
>
>
I have been involved with Remedy for 17 years now. I too carry a love for
what it was before support was gutted and the software grew more and more
problematic. I have fond memories of the Pleasanton campus and the
community as it was. Time moves on. The last 5 years have been
challenging,
12 min??? And your SQL logs (or DBA) confirms that the SQL database isn't the
choke-point?
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I have a client that has no clue what their mid-tier admin password is. I
can't find the KB that used to be out there (or at least easier to find) that
covers how to reset the mid-tier admin password. Any kind souls have it
bookmarked or prove better at finding it?
Cheers!
Thanks. I bet myself you'd be the one to reply first ;) I appreciate it.
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It's all good folks, I admit I was having a lazy moment as it had been so long
since I used it that I could not remember the exact syntax, could not find it
in the wiki-style online docs (try searching for it, won't work) and asked here
to be sure and get nudged to the proper syntax, which
Another I can't believe I've forgotten this and can't find it in the docs
post...
Wasn't there a function that took a string and, presuming they were numbers,
let you drop the integer equivalent into an int field?
something like IntField=INTEGER($CharField$)
I see currency conversion fields,
Thanks. The whole point was that some people don't even KNOW that the engine
is, well, an engine unto itself. There seems to be a trend (marketing?) to
present the image that Remedy is ONLY CMDB/ITSM.
It's always challenging to explain to customers that those are just apps
running on a (very
Ok, but in the old days, didn't that toss up a mismatch error? Did they add
some intelligence/library behind the scenes?
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Per Misi's post earlier in an old/unrelated thread (copy/pasted)...
Here is the link for Naked Remedy: https://communities.bmc.com/ideas/9432
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Was the ~! function deprecated out in 8.x?
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Yep, interested.
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submissions
will have real-life case history to refer to.
Seems simple enough to me, but Im a process person just as much as a tools
tech. The devil is in the operational cost, which seems to be arsenic to some
peoples' thinking...
Ray
That feeds my point. The RFE aspect is still broken and rather than the old
system which showed them accountable (and they had to actually eat their own
dog food by tracking it via tickets) but nothing ever happened, they move it to
a system where they appear to be less accountable and less
thing is something that some community members
enjoy, but for me, product development is not an entertainment or
community-expected responsibility. If I own the product, I should be expending
a LOT of time and effort to ensure it's the best it can be. That's all.
Ray
Thank you, Doug. Well-spoken and thorough, as always.
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Due to all the joins, adding new values causes SQL errors when trying to open
the Asset console afterwards. Customer has been advised to back off the idea
of editing Status.
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Teri,
I used it as a standalone when it was Abydos. Pretty good, but tasking was
sometimes an issue. I hate to bag on BMC, but it does appear to be another
case where they tried to just buy sometime and bolt it in with limited
resources and limited success. We never had it work properly at
Caveat: yes, I know how to set/edit Dataset precedence in the Reconciliation
tool.
My question is a bit more general: is there a published list of what
attributes are compared during reconciliation?
Client has multiple source data sets. Sometimes a subset of records in one of
the data sets
1. The recent posts on this thread are a bit of a topic hijack. Let's reign
it in?
2. The original hijack question was whether anyone had a positive experience
with PD. The forum was silent to that question. You have the answer to that
question.
3. The *original* question was a good
A client wants to add more Status values to the Asset record form (ITSM/ARS
8.1.01). I advised against the technical debt such a customization would
carry, but worse, it appears that the Status field on the Asset form doesn't
reference a menu, they are using the old Field ID7 with
Greater minds than me have pointed out the main issues with the stated
approach...I lived it in the old TelAlert and NetCool gateway days (shudder).
1. Notifications for alarms should be outsourced to the related application,
not stuck onto Remedy. Remedy CAN do it, but it's main focus is
Yes, but that form is not related to editing the Status values, that's just
another one of the sub-forms I mentioned. That form's Status field is also ID7
and is also direct-entry values.
The question still remains if there is a function in ITSM for editing Asset
Status similar to how you can
Thanks to both of you and I agree 100% Rick. The client has been strongly
warned against this but I wanted to have my Plan B ready in case they ignore
counsel. We'll see what they decide.
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The current client wants to federate a CSV file that is formed from a
concatenation of several disperate and ugly formats. Rather than dealing with
frequent imports and reconciliation, it would be better to go federation. Does
anyone have an old tried-but-true ARDBC plugin for federating CSV?
Others said it more eloquently, but mine is the shorter version...
You can remove the service execution portion of the question...they function
the same way as they do in the other operations.
Set field - set the value of a field on the target/current form (client-side
operation on the
You'll have to log in to access the 7.6.04 as it is in pdf format:
https://docs.bmc.com/docs/download/attachments/483508247/ARS_DBReferenceGuide_7604.pdf
The V8.x doc is free online:
https://docs.bmc.com/docs/display/public/ars8000/Understanding+the+AR+System+database
Ray Gellenbeck
Red
No, I have not seen an out-of-the-box way to do this. Adding one or more
ActiveLinks that watche the selection of the (re)assigned group and throws up
an error dialogue if that group is assigned would be the only way I can quickly
think to achieve this. Less-than-ideal, but it would serve the
For my friends and collegues I have known over the past 16+ years (egad, has it
been that long?), I just wanted to thank you for your collaboration and kind
words over time.
I have taken the leap and moved into private practice now, leaving Sony and
the warmth of San Diego. My first gig is
CMDB 8.x
Data set is set to allow manual edits
Class is BMC_COMPUTERSYSTEM
Edits can take place in the discovery data set, as you'd expect.
Edits to the BMC.Asset data set are allowed (manual edits allowed setting)
All fields can be edited on a record EXCEPT Site
Editing a value in the Site
Maybe it comes down to the purpose of the group. ARS list has traditionally
focused on helping each other with issues related to the ARS system and related
utility apps.
When folks cross into asking for consultancy-centric topics, I'm not surprised
when it comes to silence. I myself have
I was contacted for a decent opening up in Lansing, MI for a year or so. I
would not engage the client for personal reasons but it would be great for
someone experienced who is open to relo to the area. Reply to me directly if
you are interested and want a referral.
+1
For shops that reject the canned apps, custom web views are still the primary
solution.
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I spoke too soon. Had 4 object lists open from 2 different servers then opened
5 objects, including a large form. Crash. re-sized heap in the ini as before.
Solved.
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others'
experiences.
Thanks in advance,
Ray Gellenbeck
Red Mango LLC
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You hit the nail on the head, Dan.
It is encouraging to see BMC recommit to one of their cornerstone products.
All the reasons you put out for attending are solid.
Don't take this in a negative tone, please! But the reality for some is that a
junket to Florida is a hard-sell when the
Thanks for the post, Greg.
Yes, I tested that before posting and re-confirmed the bug remains with the
generic example. Here's the funniest part, when putting 3 panels in the
panel holder, the first 2 have a initial and max size of 200 and the 3rd has
initial of 200 but max of 1800...it
BMC confirmed it's a bug after reproducing on their test servers.
Investigating
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We all know how to refresh a table field on a form via an Active Link.
But what about refreshing a *search results list* on a regular form via an
active link as if the user had hit the refresh button in the results list?
Basics:
ARS 8.1
1. Make a regular form with all public permissions
2. Add a Panel Holder to the form, splitter or collapsible and give it a
height of 2000, 250 width, vertical orientation
(I use splitter but this happens with collapsible as well, tried that as a
workaround.)
3. Add 2 or
I forgot to pre-emptively explain why make your panel holder 2000 and your
panels only 200?
To illustrate a scenario where you migth have 10 panels, but you hide/reveal
them as the ticket progresses through the workflow.
At the end of the cycle, you have most or all of the panels reveals and
Been there. Try Chrome for iPad, but I believe you will have similar issues.
I have a custom-developed app and hoped to keep the design and layout
mobile-friendly, but alas pull-down menus and table fields are problematic in
some cases.
Sorry for the late reply on this, not sure how I didn't see it before now.
I implemented SAML SSO here at Sony in a against a global authentication system.
1. Remedy OnDemand SaaS (hosted in Phoenix CapGemini)
2. VPN tunnel to our data center at a remote location
3. Appropriate holes punched
I have an 8.1 system I adopted that had already been edited (badly). Can I
bother someone to zip up a def of the gold/stock infrastructure change form?
I'll drop it onto dev for comparison and go from there. Many thanks in
advance. Post here if you send to let others know you got it (no
I ran across a very annoying difference between display forms and regular forms
as I upgraded a custom app.
In the old app, a diary field and a char field (with limit of 0) were
displaying their contents in read only mode so the user could see past activity
and ongoing dialogue on that ticket
This was 8.1, by the way, whatever patch ROD is using at the moment.
Just thought I'd share for those who still get their hands dirty doing custom
dev.
I dont recall this always being the case. Not wild about fields that force you
to expand them to see anything at all. Seems like lazy object
I'm curious at the shift as of 2014.
This thread question is targeted at developers/architects. To clarify, let's
make the definition that you either customize at the object level or you
develop integrations at the AIE/API/XML levels AND you've been doing that for
at least 2 years.
If you
Thanks. I've always been a FTE since I started in 96. The growing trend seems
to be client hopes for a short deploy/customize contract gig then drop the SME
and then hope a cheaper admin can keep it running. The beauty of that dream is
then when that flops they hire an old codger like me to
We joked in 2000? at the announcement at the Disney Swan that Larry would be
taking his share from the sale of Remedy to Peregrin and buying a small island
somewhere. I can still picture the stage.
I never worked for Remedy, but was a RAC when it meant something and the
customer service and
Okay, this should be simple, but it's obscure enough I can't find it in the
online manuals (I really miss my PDF's), so I ask the list with advanced
request for forgiveness at the simple nature of the question ;)
If I want to programmatically populate the Advanced Search Bar so that when I
run
It's been enjoyable the last few years, but I'm starting to feel pidgeon-holed
into being a tool customizer instead of a Senior Lead, so I'm making myself
open to new opportunities abroad. I'd prefer to remain in the San Diego area
or work-from-home openings. Contract (with proper TE) or FTE
Awesome, thanks for much, Fred!
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Cheers. Thank you sir!
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Sorry, I forgot to add that I don't monitor the ARS List registered email
(yahoo.com) anymore as they are always getting hacked. I monitor gmail at the
same location (raygellenb...@gmail.com).
Ray
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A lot of software shops are the same way, Jason. I work for a content delivery
group of a global gaming/electronics company and a majority of the users here
are DevOps and ProdOps with emphasis on Agile. I have often butted heads by
stating that Agile and ITIL are not oil/water exclusive to
I've been out of the loop with RUG's since 2011. If someone from San Diego
and/or LA can contact me directly, let me know when/where the next RUG session
will be (presuming it's still active). raygellenb...@gmail.com
Thx.
IMHO, BMC runs the risk of killing the last major advantage of Remedy as they
try more and more to make the server part of the app and not layered. I
have held off accepting demonstrations/testing of the newer Galileo product,
but from what I see, BMC keeps making small steps to do away with
Yeah, on the phone with Yahoo support now trying to get my account back. I
don't use it so I never notice when they've been hacked again (hence why i quit
using them). Last time I used a complex password generator, so it wasn't just
a brute force attack.
Ray
Actually, I need to follow-up on that. You can't just put 1005 in the Field
portion in the Set Fields action of an Active link If Action, so exactly how do
you propose to go about setting the value of field ID 1005 from an active link?
yeah, I was just about to post a retraction, I forgot to add a field with ID
1005. Duh... Thanks.
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Thanks to both posters for their info. I did indeed find the offending
workflow, but for further measure added an AL with execution order 999 that
runs the change flag 0 run process.
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Environment: AR Server v 8.1
Situation: Using a Regular Form in Search Mode in a web browser
Actions:
Action 1. Search is executed on the form (either the Search button is pressed
or the Run Process PERFORM-ACTION-APPLY
Result 1. Form changes to Modify view as the contents of the top record
At the risk of aging myself, I've been involved with ARS since 3.x days.
Equally involved with process development as much as making the tool(s) support
them.
I'm pretty sure my clearance is still valid (but unsponsored for a few years).
I'm based in San Diego with past living/working
Have there been any new operators to assist in string evaluation in v8.x?
I have the old classic requirement on character fields with 0 data length:
User must enter at least 7 characters in the field. Validation must ensure
that the data entered is not just spaces to get past the validation.
Confirmed, works great. I just added that run process just before any Open
Window action and the confirmation popup has been suppressed across the board.
thanks again.
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don't want to have to do all the mechanics of keeping everything in one window
vs. using Open Window with views. Suppressing that message would be the ideal
solution.
Thanks in advance,
Ray
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Will try at the form level. Good stuff, thx.
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Hey, I want to double check my user form field permission against out of the
box
I have 8.1. Can someone confirm the default, out-of-the-box permissions for
the following 3 fields on the User form?
101 (Login Name)
8 (Full Name)
104 (Group List)
In comparing my DEV and QA, I see deltas and
exports from User because I find the web interface to be
click-happy and clunky.
They'll take my User tool when they pry it from my cold, dead hard drive...
Ray
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Greetings all,
I had a couple quick questions on 8.1
1. Did they provide a way to instantly change the displayed view of a form
without re-launching the form in the same window?
Example: on a custom app, the desire to change from submit-custom1 view to
search-custom3 view (arbitrary names)
Related, was there some form of ARList purge on 12/21? I stopped receiving
ARList emails on that date after many years of membership. I'd hate to think
there was a bug or, worse, some admin doing it intentionally.
On Friday, January 31, 2014 11:05 AM, Ray Gellenbeck raygellenb...@yahoo.com
agile/slick.
Oh well, I get to build a brick-ton of hide/reveal/changefield active links I
suppose. Doing it via views would be so much more efficient for the
client/browser as well as code overhead. Bah...
Ray
On Friday, January 31, 2014 12:32 PM, Grooms, Frederick W
frederick.w.gro
Drew is well thought out on this one, but I have one question about the
'first part'. What is the sticky part? Wouldn't a one-time escalation
handle this for you? Then as assets are added a filter could do the
look-up.
r
From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
numbers could be in the Short Desc or
Details could get involved. But if the LIKE %asset number% comparison would
pick any of them up it should work ok.
David
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Sent: Tuesday, January 21
be viewed by anyone not in the SOC group(s).
I have played with 8.1 in a dev sandbox but not delved into multi-tenancy
changes yet. In 7.6.04, the model was insufficient in complexity/options to
allow this efficiently.
Ray Gellenbeck
Mgr, BSM
Sony Network Entertainment Int'l
San Diego, CA
Join form(s) or temp fields (take 2 steps...first step pull the values from the
other forms into temp fields, then use the temp fields in your other action in
the same filter).
If you go join, remember the best practices regarding performance and depth of
joins.
Ray Gellenbeck
Mgr, BSM
Sony
It is really using the user name. Try it. Create a User record with no email
address value but a valid-formatted email address for the Login ID field.
The notify action is not paying attention to which mechanism is selected, I
selected email in the construction of the notify action in the
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and addressing messages
that will result in emails going out in this case even though the email address
field is $NULL$
b. The email engine totally ignores CTM:People settings of Status as well as
User settings of Disabled/Enabled and Default Notification in this case.
Ray
I have ITSM installed but have customer workflow installed. At one point, all
members of a given group are sent a email notification via filter.
An unexpected behavior happens.
Details (this is tricky, so read carefully)
7.6.04 server (Remedy OnDemand system, not that it matters except to
)
[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Longwing, Lj
Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2013
8:35 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Annoying Developer
Studio Bug
** Sorry Ray, all
I can do is join in with you on the annoyance, if you log a bug or communities
idea on this, let me know and I'll vote for it out
Studio Bug
** Sorry Ray, all I can do is join in with you on the annoyance, if you log a
bug or communities idea on this, let me know and I'll vote for it out John
into the chorus
On Sunday, September 1, 2013, Ray Gellenbeck wrote:
I have a big pet peeve that was not corrected in 8.1 of Dev
suspect there is not, so thanks in advance for anyone who can prove me wrong!
Ray Gellenbeck
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Server version 7.6.04 or 8.1.00 (both act the same on this)
Situation: Using a Display Only form as a main push/pull control center for
creating and manipulating records on an underlying table.
Techniques used: hiding or revealing various sections of the form using panels
and Active Links
and then invoking create mode vis Run Process is so
different, but it is, try it.
Raymond H. Gellenbeck
Manager | Business
Service Management
Sony Network
Entertainment
From: Ray Gellenbeck raygellenb...@yahoo.com
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Sent: Tuesday, August 27
If anyone has stripped an 8.1 server of the ITSM and CMDB objects and reverted
to naked AR Server for custom-only devleopment, let me know your experiences.
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If anyone has used the Salt product stack with Change and CMDB successfully,
I'd like to speak with you about the general experience and headaches
encountered.
(www.saltstack.com)
Thanks in advance.
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thanks to all for the feedback. I was afraid that the 8.1 installer forced you
to take ITSM (I obviously haven't taken the time to play yet, hence asking this
list). If you can uncheck/leave off ITSM and CMDB etc., so much the better.
Thank you all for your feedback and very happy to hear
I have seen this in the past, but it wasn't as much an issue as it is now, so
I'll ask.
I have a custom form with a dark background and I'm using white color for my
field label text. I can set that no problem.
I use the default light background for the field input areas and black text
Haven't encountered it yet in 8.1.
Ray
On Aug 12, 2013, at 10:24 AM, Gordon Frank gjj...@comcast.net wrote:
**
Thanks for the help everyone,
The problem was the Record Object Relationships parameter. This is a
development\test server and I had turned this parameter on to trace
color on
selection fields (radio button and check box) data text.
Solutions?
On Aug 13, 2013, at 11:26 PM, Ray Gellenbeck raygellenb...@yahoo.com wrote:
I have seen this in the past, but it wasn't as much an issue as it is now, so
I'll ask.
I have a custom form with a dark background
, not criticism, so I would
offer that the original incident index can go if you don't do a lot of children
incident tickets, along with owner login Id unless you have a user base in the
thousands. It's hard to be more helpful from out of the blue.
Ray Gellenbeck
On Aug 14, 2013, at 7:45 AM
is what you desire. This is a 1% scenario.
Ray
On Aug 14, 2013, at 6:13 AM, Ron Young rpyo...@southernco.com wrote:
Just wondering...is there a way to have more than one home page? We have
several different home pages for different groups...say for instance Test A
home Page, Test B Home Page
Another, simpler strategy is to use test users for each test case and set the
home page different for each test case loginid. That is what I usually do.
Chg_relcoord for a test release coordinator, inc_usecase3 test user, etc. your
policies and management requirements may vary.
Ray
On Aug
Last call before I give up...anybody?
From: Ray Gellenbeck raygellenb...@yahoo.com
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 5:43 AM
Subject: Re: Setting Text Color of Checkbox and Radio Button Fields
Just tested/verified the problem on new
Thanks. I'll just go with a grey background before I mess with the css path.
Seems borderline dumb to allow changing of the label color but not changing the
data color. You can even set the data FONT in some field types, but never
color. sigh.
Hey, for the few of us out there who still custom-develop...remind an old dog
of the programmatic way to alter a table query conditions via active link. Do
you store the criteria in a hidden character field?
(use 7.6.04, we haven't adopted 8.1 for a few more months)
Use Case / Example:
I
Many thanks. Will try shortly.
From: Longwing, Lj llongw...@usgs.gov
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 1:04 PM
Subject: Re: Changing table query details via Active Link
**
Ray,
Build the Table Qual with EXTERNAL($FieldName
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