Re: BMC Support

2007-09-14 Thread Rick Cook
Thank you, Shawn, for an excellent explanation of the Indian method of customer service - which, according to a nice Indian co-worker who explained this to me once - is to obfuscate and annoy until people give up. That cultural difference is something that must be trained out of Indian technical s

Re: BMC Support

2007-09-14 Thread Rick Cook
07 1:55 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: BMC Support Bring back Peregrine! -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Cook Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 3:48 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: BMC Support

Re: BMC Support

2007-09-14 Thread Rick Cook
That's great, Dave. Perhaps BMC could restore some of the information they USED to have on the support site regarding escalation manager contact points. I know most of the ones they used to have, but who knows who's still there any more. If some of what we're saying here is based on false assum

Re: BMC Support

2007-09-15 Thread Rick Cook
Sounds like you and I are attempting to work with the same tech. I couldn't even get him to READ the original results file I sent him that showed that some permissions weren't being migrated. Instead, he asked me to delete my cached files - during the week I was doing migrations to other servers.

Re: Large file in system temp directory

2007-09-17 Thread Rick Cook
043 > PO Box 3608 > Harrisburg, PA 17105-3607 > __20060125___This posting was submitted with HTML in > it___ -- Rick Cook Cook Enterprises 253-278-4112 ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are"

Re: Patch 004 for AR CMDB now available (Read if you want to install ITSM 7.0 on ARS 7.1)

2007-09-17 Thread Rick Cook
If I were a cynical person, I might ask whether any testing was done on things like this. Dot releases are supposed to undergo a full regression test, which should include upgrades from all currently supported platforms. Did the "old team" roll out crap this bad very often? I don't think so. Ri

Re: Updated : Malloc Erros after Applying 7.0.1 Patch 4 anyone?

2007-09-18 Thread Rick Cook
Remember that there were two drops of 7.0.1 p4 for AR Server - the old one (or the new one) could be the problem. Rick _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hall Chad - chahal Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 6:14 AM To: arslist@A

Re: Large file in system temp directory

2007-09-18 Thread Rick Cook
ng workflow would create a huge temporary file in a > system temp directory. If we would have known this before we would have > setup disk space much differently. > > Dave > > > ------ > *From:* Action Request System discussion list(ARSLi

Re: Large file in system temp directory

2007-09-18 Thread Rick Cook
tinues to gather data but no where to report it. The admin tool has > dropped the link and creates a 0 size def file. > > I haven't had a response to my question about the timeout condition. > > Dave > > > > From: Action Request System di

Re: Large file in system temp directory

2007-09-18 Thread Rick Cook
th of code, why are you getting a 10 GB temp file? Rick On 9/18/07, Rick Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, that still doesn't make sense, because even your DB, including all > indexes, isn't 10 GB. Either there's some horribly inefficient design, or > t

KM Error on Incident

2007-09-18 Thread Rick Cook
Getting the following error on the Knowledge Base tab on an Incident. Anyone know the fix? Remedy's KB is not helpful. Rick HTTP Status 500 - -- *type* Exception report *message* ** *description* *The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from

Re: KM Error on Incident

2007-09-18 Thread Rick Cook
deployed the war file. I used to see this issue at least once per > day under previous builds. > > HTH, > > Ben > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Rick Cook > Sent: Tue 9/18/2007 10:47 AM > To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG >

Re: Should we be fixing vendor bugs?

2007-09-18 Thread Rick Cook
That's a conundrum that we all have to ponder, Mary. I wish I had a better answer, but here's my $0.02. We generally have to make the changes as we find them, since BMC is months behind on bug fixes, and we don't know how long it might be before they fix what we're finding for them. Sorry you ha

Re: Bringing existing application into 7.0

2007-09-19 Thread Rick Cook
A more specific description of the error, along with the exact version and patch of your 7.0 server, would help us to help you. Rick On 9/19/07, Joe D'Souza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ** Anything on any error logs? > ** > *Joe D'Souza* > > -Original Message- > *From:* Action Request

Re: OT -- Sort Of: Computerworld reports on ITIL

2007-09-19 Thread Rick Cook
Have to agree with you, Norm. If a change to a process is to be made, the CHANGE must be justified as being better than the status quo, and the value of that change must be weighed against the cost of not making it. If part of the justification is (as is the case with ITIL) that a valid compariso

Re: BMC Support

2007-09-19 Thread Rick Cook
Remember, we don't buy software from BMC or other major vendors, we buy licenses to USE the software, under conditions specified by the seller in the EULA. So while you can keep the SW once you stop paying for licenses, if you can't use it, what's the difference between having it and not having it

Re: OT -- Sort Of: Computerworld reports on ITIL

2007-09-20 Thread Rick Cook
Scott, I know you're smart enough to know the difficulty in proving a negative. Proving that an event provides a result is a lot easier than showing that it there's no connection, because it's the difference between proving one actual connection path vs. many potential ones - all of which have to

Re: BMC Foundation Discovery - Installation?

2007-09-20 Thread Rick Cook
Well, that depends on two things - how powerful that server is, and to what extent you're willing to deal with performance issues on that box when a discovery process is running - FD will basically take over that box during that process. There's a reason BMC recommends that FD be on its own server

Re: OT -- Sort Of: Computerworld reports on ITIL

2007-09-20 Thread Rick Cook
Norm, I don't know that the value of ITIL is as much in the processes themselves as it is in the goal of the entire company using the SAME processes that work together, vs. the individual silos and multiple tools and processes that many companies have to fight through. So if a company is already t

Re: BMC Foundation Discovery - Installation?

2007-09-20 Thread Rick Cook
hone: 202-622-5541 > > -Original Message- > *From:* Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Rick Cook > *Sent:* Thursday, September 20, 2007 11:54 AM > *To:* arslist@ARSLIST.ORG > *Subject:* Re: BMC Foundation Discove

Re: SLM Integration with Custom ARS Form

2007-09-22 Thread Rick Cook
SLM 7 has some serious issues, even with the most current patch installed. Check with support to see if they can help, but we're having to do a lot of fixes and troubleshooting of it ourselves. Rick -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

Re: SLM Integration with Custom ARS Form

2007-09-23 Thread Rick Cook
ith Custom ARS Form What kind of troubleshooting we should do? Rick Cook-3 wrote: > > SLM 7 has some serious issues, even with the most current patch installed. > Check with support to see if they can help, but we're having to do a > lot of fixes and troubleshooting

Re: Thoughts on Core ARS Licensing

2007-09-23 Thread Rick Cook
Bing, while your comments are well considered, why don't you wait for a full evaluation of the next Administrator tool before pronouncing final judgement? I don't know enough about it to say what new functionality it might bring to the table for us, but it will be very different, and may change so

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

2009-01-06 Thread Rick Cook
Technically, wasn't it the hotel that botched 2008? And then made a miraculous recovery for some lingerie models? Rick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: "Kemes, Lisa" Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 11:07:24 To: Subject: Re: Other shoe just fell

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

2009-01-06 Thread Rick Cook
Roger, on the surface that makes sense. But you can bet they haven't stopped spending money on sales and marketing. And RUG is certainly that. It is the one event they put on that stirs the pot, so to speak. They must think there is no money to be made right now. Rick Sent from my Verizon W

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

2009-01-06 Thread Rick Cook
ort, and that a number of third-party vendors may also keep their staff away in efforts to save costs. James Van Sickle Remedy Developer Office: 972-409-4902 Mobile: 214-263-9340 -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of

Re: Open Window, Open tab

2009-01-06 Thread Rick Cook
Add a change fields action to your Active Link to set the focus to either the tab or a field on it. Rick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: "Kemes, Lisa" Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 14:20:54 To: Subject: Open Window, Open tab Is there a way

Re: OT: My New Job!

2009-01-07 Thread Rick Cook
Congrats, Mark! Hope you enjoy Austin. I hear its a nice city. Its been great having you here on the list. Rick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Mark Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 08:54:19 To: Subject: OT: My New Job! Listers, friends,

Re: only a window of a form

2009-01-08 Thread Rick Cook
Daniele, You could hide the form from being opened via the form list (Make form permissions "Hide"). Only allow its opening as a dialog (i.e. a button that fires an Active Link Open Window action). Windows will keep the dialog in front, effectively preventing additional windows from being op

Re: only a window of a form

2009-01-08 Thread Rick Cook
In your Open Window action, you can choose the window type from a pull down list. You will also need to add a button to allow the user to Submit the record (disable the "Save" button). Rick - Original Message - From: "Daniele B. from Italy" Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general

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

2009-01-08 Thread Rick Cook
David, I think the "BUW as education" angle was underestimated by BMC. How can we evangelize the new BMC stuff to our own companies if we don't get to see it and talk to the engineers? I think this decision was hasty and shortsighted. Rick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Orig

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

2009-01-08 Thread Rick Cook
rectors or management... My 2 cents.. Joe ____ From: Rick Cook To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Thursday, January 8, 2009 3:40:30 PM Subject: Re: Other shoe just fell, no UserWorld 2009, so on with the ARSlist Awards **David, I think the "BUW as education" angl

Re: Loading Operational/Product Categories into ITSM V7

2009-01-08 Thread Rick Cook
Effective Technology's data load tool is very good at that. Rick --Original Message-- From: SPrasad Sender: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG ReplyTo: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Loading Operational/Product Categories into ITSM V7 Sent: Jan 8, 2009 1:4

Re: Selection Field: Value vs. Alias Value?

2009-01-19 Thread Rick Cook
Alan, Workflow converts selection field values to numeric anyway, so it really doesn't matter what the text values are. Rick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Alan Blake Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:34:09 To: Subject: Selection Field: Val

Re: Remedy User Suddenly Crashing for Multiple Users

2009-01-26 Thread Rick Cook
Brian, If it is happening to multiple users, I would suspect workflow. Turn client logs on at a couple of them and see what fired last. Rick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: "Sokol, Brian" Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:46:53 To: Subject:

Re: Remedy User Suddenly Crashing for Multiple Users

2009-01-26 Thread Rick Cook
slist.org] On Behalf Of Rick Cook Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 10:55 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Remedy User Suddenly Crashing for Multiple Users ** Brian, If it is happening to multiple users, I would suspect workflow. Turn client logs on at a couple of them and see what fired last.

Re: Jr. Remedy Developer Needed

2009-01-27 Thread Rick Cook
One politically related thing to mention that Is on topic : whenever a new administration takes office, there are lots of new appointees, all of whom need clearances. Any of us who need one in this time period might notice the process being backed up some due to the crush of new requests. Any

Open/Close window problem

2009-01-27 Thread Rick Cook
I have an Active Link that opens a Dialog from a new record, grabs some additional values from the dialog form, and is supposed to return them on Close, which is fired by a button on the dialog. The fields map on open, but not on close. I have never seen this fail before. Any ideas of what might

Re: Open/Close window problem

2009-01-27 Thread Rick Cook
close' mappings your button must do a commit changes before doing the close window action. _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Rick Cook Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 9:36 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Open/Close wind

Re: Filters - Enable or Disable via workflow

2009-02-04 Thread Rick Cook
Claire, Why not set those criteria as entry into a filter guide? You could set it to exit the guide after it meets the criteria for one of them. Rick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: "Sanford, Claire" Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 15:16:01 To

Re: NEXT-BLOCK-ID-SIZE

2009-02-11 Thread Rick Cook
I spent some time playing with this some months ago. It turns out that the recommended setting of 10 is as large as the value should be, unless you are having outside processes creating large numbers of records virtually simultaneously. Standard workflow like a Push Fields create wasn't enough t

Re: NEXT-BLOCK-ID-SIZE

2009-02-11 Thread Rick Cook
quest System discussion list(ARSList) on behalf of Rick Cook Sent: Wed 02/11/09 10:39 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: NEXT-BLOCK-ID-SIZE **I spent some time playing with this some months ago. It turns out that the recommended setting of 10 is as large as the value should be, unless you are h

Re: 7.1 to 7.5

2009-02-11 Thread Rick Cook
Louise, you have to be at a certain patch level (can't remember which) of 7.1.0 to upgrade it to 7.5. I am pretty sure it's in the 7.5 release notes. Rick - Original Message - From: Louise Van Hine Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Wedn

Re: OT: Not millennium, but better...

2009-02-13 Thread Rick Cook
Misi, You have forever cemented yourself in the annals of Remedy geekdom. Rick --Original Message-- From: Misi Mladoniczky Sender: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG ReplyTo: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: OT: Not millennium, but better... Sent: Feb 13, 2

Re: Friday Humor - Remedy Song

2009-02-16 Thread Rick Cook
We want a song that talks about how BAD Remedy is as our theme song? Rick On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 6:09 AM, Meyer, Jennifer L < jennifer.me...@its.nc.gov> wrote: > ** > > Lets adopt it as the ARSList theme song. > > > > Jennifer Meyer > -- > > *From:* Action Request

Re: Date greater than 2037 in remedy

2009-02-16 Thread Rick Cook
I am guessing that going to a 64 bit operating system will remove that limitation. Rick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Aditya C Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:14:45 To: Subject: Date greater than 2037 in remedy Hello, Remedy cannot ta

Re: Heads-up: ITSM 7.5 needs 6 GB of memory ?

2009-02-17 Thread Rick Cook
I saw that too. Since 32 bit OS only supports about 3 Gb RAM, we are effectively forced to either a server OS, a Linux one, or a 64 bit OS upgrade. Laptop servers appear to be endangered. Rick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Guillaume Rheault

Re: Books for Remedy version 6 ,7 and CMDB

2009-02-18 Thread Rick Cook
Rajat, There are no books I know of that one can buy at a store. The only ones I know of are the product docs and the ones you get at training classes. And we are not allowed to copy or otherwise distribute those. Rick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From:

Re: Books for Remedy version 6 ,7 and CMDB

2009-02-18 Thread Rick Cook
I think Axton Grams already did that. Rick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Frank Caruso Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:06:53 To: Subject: Re: Books for Remedy version 6 ,7 and CMDB Instead of a book why don't we all just collaborate on a

Re: Books for Remedy version 6 ,7 and CMDB

2009-02-18 Thread Rick Cook
Its actually slicker than that. Its basically print on demand. Keeps inventory and costs lower. Rick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: William Rentfrow Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:20:39 To: Subject: Re: Books for Remedy version 6 ,7 and

Re: Assign a different start page to a user...

2009-02-23 Thread Rick Cook
Richard, If you force the use of centralized preferences, you can do that and much more in the way of user customization. Since all of the data is stored in forms, you can have workflow fire against it, too. Rick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From:

Re: Florida Position

2009-02-24 Thread Rick Cook
Remember that West Palm Beach is the place that could not figure out how to work a simple voting ballot. Maybe there's a connection. Maybe not. Rick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: "Tanner, Doug" Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:01:34 To:

Re: Eval license - sort of a rant

2009-03-02 Thread Rick Cook
I think Dave Easter has been working on this. Don't know the status of the initiative. It is long overdue, though. Rick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: LJ Longwing Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 11:22:21 To: Subject: Re: Eval license - sort o

Re: BMC Professional Services Hourly or Daily rates

2009-03-16 Thread Rick Cook
Agree. Even if I had such information, I would not share it with a source so anonymous that it could be from a competitor. Rick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Satya Gandhi Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:38:18 To: Subject: Re: BMC Profess

Re: how to insert animated images in remedy

2009-03-16 Thread Rick Cook
Could probably be done on the Midtier, but not on the client. Rick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Remedy Maniac Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:23:56 To: Subject: Re: how to insert animated images in remedy well I believe there must be a

Re: ARS and CMDB 7.5 patch 1 are out

2009-03-18 Thread Rick Cook
Juan, I think monkeying with the app properties will probably take care of it. Path of least resistance. Rick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Juan Ingles Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:41:04 To: Subject: Re: ARS and CMDB 7.5 patch 1 ar

Re: AIE and Currency fields

2009-03-19 Thread Rick Cook
Oscar, I found that the only way to convert 5.x currency data to 6/7.x is to import it to a character field and then from the char to the 6/7.x currency field. Rick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Oscar Herrera Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009

Re: Workflow Order Question

2009-03-20 Thread Rick Cook
Actually, people use LastId for that exact purpose all the time. Rick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: "Sokol, Brian" Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:13:02 To: Subject: Re: Workflow Order Question Hi Kevin, No I can not use that. I need

Re: ITSM naming convention sucks

2009-03-20 Thread Rick Cook
It does show the effects of "distributed development", but once you figure it out, it really is a much better architecture (or design) than previous versions. --Original Message-- From: ccrashh Sender: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG ReplyTo: arslis

Re: ITSM naming convention sucks

2009-03-24 Thread Rick Cook
Help text ended with ITSM 5. Engineers accidentally removed it from 6. There apparently wasn't time to add it to 7. Rick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Guillaume Rheault Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:04:30 To: Subject: Re: ITSM naming

Re: japanese characters and showing

2009-03-27 Thread Rick Cook
UT is not unicode enabled, but you could use localized language-specific versions of it to display text in that language. Of course the MT is going to be less hassle than that. Rick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Timothy Rondeau Date:

Re: OT: Daniel Bloom - saved the day

2009-03-30 Thread Rick Cook
Yes, our Dan is not just another pretty face. He has some finely tuned geek skillz as well. Rick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Brandi Barbour Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:13:52 To: Subject: OT: Daniel Bloom - saved the day All, If y

Re: How to get Calbro out of first position

2009-03-30 Thread Rick Cook
Louise, Go to COM:Company. What you see there should tell you what you need to know to figure out the solution. Rick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Louise Van Hine Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:01:55 To: Subject: How to get Calbro out

Re: ChangeInterface_Create use for updating existing Change requests in ITSM 7.02

2009-03-31 Thread Rick Cook
Peter, you're close on this one. The _create form is just for creating new records. Use the self-join called CHG:ChangeInterface for updates and searches. Rick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: "Lammey, Peter A." Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 1

Re: What purpose does a discovery tool serve?

2009-04-01 Thread Rick Cook
Shawn, Discovery is like doing a physical inventory of a store or warehouse. No matter how good your change process is, something will slip through. And that server down time issue is configurable in most discovery tools. Rick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message---

Re: What purpose does a discovery tool serve?

2009-04-01 Thread Rick Cook
to manually maintain the CI, even if that just means clicking "OK" somewhere and having the discovery tool information reconcile with the CI information in BMC.ASSET. From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Rick Cook Sent: Wednes

CMDB Federation with CMDBf

2009-04-06 Thread Rick Cook
I am looking to Federate a 7.5 CMDB with another data store, and am looking at using the CMDBf adapter that BMC provides (JDBC is not an option, unfortunately). Does anyone have any tips to share regarding its use? The manuals are kinda sparse on it, and the BMCDN has been NO help. I have read a

Re: Adding an Incident field to SRM

2009-04-07 Thread Rick Cook
Scott, thanks for doing this. Could I suggest that you submit it to the BMCDN? That way you can just post the link to the doc, and it will be there to help whoever needs it. Rick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Tami Palacky Date: Tue

NWRUG Meeting April 27th

2009-04-08 Thread Rick Cook
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Re: Product Categorizations and the Elephant Rhyme

2009-04-09 Thread Rick Cook
Jennifer, you could show Mr. Elephant Tail (MET) books and best practices until the cows come home - if you haven't convinced him by now, you need someone else to fight this battle. I think I would suggest that you try these tactics: 1) Find the manager/director who uses the output data from the

Re: NWRUG Meeting April 27th

2009-04-09 Thread Rick Cook
I forgot to mention that RSVPs should go to me at remedyr...@gmail.com. They will be very appreciated so that we know how much lunch to provide. Rick On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Rick Cook wrote: > Attention NWRUG members: we will be holding our initial NWRUG meeting of > 2009 on

Re: Product Categorizations and the Elephant Rhyme

2009-04-09 Thread Rick Cook
You're right as usual, Chris. But she said that they were already using Categorizations for Assignment. While testing paradigms is a practice we should all undertake, changing the entire support model is an undertaking that requires buy-in from all users and owners of the Support model. It doesn

Re: import Templates?

2009-04-09 Thread Rick Cook
Julie, I know that this can be done, because I've done it. Unfortunately, it's been a over a year ago, so I can't remember the specifics of HOW I did it, and I don't have the code. You might check to see if the Data Loader utility does that, and Effective Technologies has a Datalink application t

Re: import Templates?

2009-04-09 Thread Rick Cook
rse we could have missed > mapping a field here or there, but nothing so far is obviously "off". > > Thanks, > Julie > > > > *Rick Cook * > Sent by: "Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)" < > arslist@ARSLIST.ORG> > > 04/09/2009

Form population conundrum

2009-04-16 Thread Rick Cook
I am trying to come up with the best way of doing the following: I have a form with two fields: one character field and the other drop-down. Each has a maximum of about 8 unique records. What I want to do is create a cross reference file in that form of all possible combinations of those data val

Re: Form population conundrum

2009-04-16 Thread Rick Cook
you need workflow to generate > it (i.e., does the system need to generate it automatically), or are you > just trying to find a way to generate the list so that you have an initial > set of data, perhaps that could even be imported? > > > > Lyle > > > > *From:*

Re: Windows Vista + Remedy 7.1 Patch 4 + Oracle 11g

2009-04-17 Thread Rick Cook
Which version of Vista? --Original Message-- From: Tristan Roppel Sender: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG ReplyTo: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Windows Vista + Remedy 7.1 Patch 4 + Oracle 11g Sent: Apr 17, 2009 6:26 AM Hi folks, Have anybody of you e

Re: Etiquette Question: Is Fat Client offensive?

2009-04-17 Thread Rick Cook
Tell it to only accept lower case letters in small font sizes. And NEVER maximize the window. Its just empty pixels. Rick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: "Pierson, Shawn" Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:08:13 To: Subject: Re: Etiquette Que

Re: HUMOR: Etiquette Question: Is PHAT offensive?

2009-04-17 Thread Rick Cook
My rule is that if you have to ask, it ain't the pants. Rick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Howard Richter Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:29:13 To: Subject: Re: HUMOR: Etiquette Question: Is PHAT offensive? If you get charged for two pa

Re: Friday Humor: Etiquette Question: Is Fat Client offensive?

2009-04-17 Thread Rick Cook
Indeed. That's a very solid effort, David, especially coming from a middle-aged white guy. I would NOT recommend doing this at the next executive meeting, though. I am sure you're way ahead of me on that. J.T. , I like your enhancements, too. Rick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry --

Re: WWRUG09 ANNOUNCES KEYNOTE SPEAKER!

2009-04-22 Thread Rick Cook
Some questions you might answer on the site, Dan: 1) What is included (and not included) in the registration price? 2) When will a venue be decided upon? 3) Any special deals on rooms (in this economy, I would think so)? 4) Who will be teaching the sessions and tutorials? 5) Are you looking f

Re: WWRUG09 ANNOUNCES KEYNOTE SPEAKER!

2009-04-22 Thread Rick Cook
com to get directly to the registration page. There is a link on the left hand side to get to the documents. Hope to see you all in Las Vegas! . Daniel _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Rick Cook Sent: April 22, 2009 1

Re: Licensing

2009-04-27 Thread Rick Cook
Not at this time. Dave Easter has assured us that a limited developer licensing program is under development, though the ETA or details are not ready to be disclosed yet. They would have to come from him even if I knew anything current to tell you. That is, unless that's been updated since I

Re: ITSP Issue - People's Support Groups disappearing

2009-04-28 Thread Rick Cook
Are you populating that form via LDAP? Rick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: "Coleman, Gavin" Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:35:54 To: Subject: ITSP Issue - People's Support Groups disappearing Hi List - got a little issue here that's caus

Re: Remedy in Amazon Computing Cloud?

2009-04-28 Thread Rick Cook
Actually, the guys at Amazon, who also use Remedy, are working on that already. I am sure they will let the list know when there is a tested process for doing that. Rick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: "Leihkauff, Kenneth" Date: Tue,

Re: Pushing remedy data to mobile handsets

2009-04-28 Thread Rick Cook
Bmc partners with most, if not all, of those solutions, and they should all be able to demonstrate how easy their integration with Remedy works. Its just a question of which fits your needs and budget. Rick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Chr

Re: CMDB Issues

2009-04-30 Thread Rick Cook
This is expected behavior. You should only add fields (aka: attributes) using the CMDBDriver utility or through the Class Manager on the CMDB console. You should delete what you added via admin and then re-add them one of the two ways I referenced. Rick On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 7:45 AM, arsadm w

Re: Job: Walnut Creek, CA - Remedy Admin - Kforce - Contract

2009-04-30 Thread Rick Cook
Gee, good thing you aren't looking for a Senior person. No way they could compete with the tons of Junior people who have all of those skills. /s Sorry, Josh - you're appreciated here, and I wish you well, but I gotta poke at stuff like this. ;-) Rick On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Kitchen, J

Re: Using oversized integer in ARDBC LDAP Vendor form

2009-05-04 Thread Rick Cook
I have two ideas : Truncate the number from the right. Format it in a character field, then dump the truncated results into a date time or integer field. Rick --Original Message-- From: Dwayne Martin Sender: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG ReplyT

Re: ARS with Load Balance

2009-05-07 Thread Rick Cook
Yes, they do. Rick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: 金恺 Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 13:41:10 To: Subject: ARS with Load Balance Hi All Do BMC have some Documents to describe how ARS works with the Load Balance Hardware? Thanks a lot

Re: User tool closes when executing a Crystal Report

2009-05-07 Thread Rick Cook
Skynet "virus"? Or (and probably more likely) maybe a corrupted copy of the report is being accessed? Rick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Tony Worthington Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 10:26:21 To: Subject: User tool closes when executing a

Re: ITSM7 escalation thread whitepaper?

2009-05-07 Thread Rick Cook
I remember seeing something last year, Tony. The basics were to break up the threads either by application or by function. Rick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Tony Worthington Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 12:29:41 To: Subject: ITSM7 escal

Re: ITSM7 escalation thread whitepaper?

2009-05-07 Thread Rick Cook
vid.sand...@westoverconsulting.co.uk> david.sand...@westoverconsulting.co.uk web <http://www.westoverconsulting.co.uk/> http://www.westoverconsulting.co.uk From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Rick Cook Sent: Thursday, May 07,

Re: Escalation Timeline

2009-05-12 Thread Rick Cook
Unless ARSmarts, Abydos, or some other tool does that, I don't know of a way, either. I tried to think of one last year when looking at how to multithread the escalations, and ended up just doing it manually. Rick Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From:

Re: Escalation Timeline

2009-05-12 Thread Rick Cook
stem discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Rick Cook Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 10:00 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Escalation Timeline Unless ARSmarts, Abydos, or some other tool does that, I don't know of a way, either. I tried to think of one last ye

Re: ITSM 7 Product Names for Help Desk redirected or misdirected calls

2009-05-12 Thread Rick Cook
Why not just deal with those by designating them as requests instead of either Incidents or Change Requests? Rick --Original Message-- From: Lammey, Peter A. Sender: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG ReplyTo: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: ITSM 7 Product

Re: ITSM 7 Product Names for Help Desk redirected or misdirected calls

2009-05-12 Thread Rick Cook
ey ESPN IT Client Architecture and Automation 860-766-4761 -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Rick Cook Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 12:05 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: ITSM 7 Product Names for Help Desk r

Re: ITSM 7 Network Bandwidth

2009-05-12 Thread Rick Cook
The only published advice I have seen is just networking 101 stuff. Keep the AR and DB servers as close as possible in the DC, and minimize hops between clients and AR and Midtier servers. There are some docs available for tuning the CMDB and ITSM apps. I have found those helpful. Rick Sen

Re: Escalation Timeline

2009-05-13 Thread Rick Cook
terested about this - what is the relevant metatable to setup a > view over? > > Ta > > Dave > > -Original Message- > *From:* Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto: > arsl...@arslist.org]*on Behalf Of *Rick Cook > *Sent:* 12 May 2009 16:33 &

Re: Escalation Timeline

2009-05-13 Thread Rick Cook
riginal Message- > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto: > arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Rick Cook > Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 9:19 AM > To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG > Subject: Re: Escalation Timeline > > David, > > It's just called 'es

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