Ok, umm...well, make sure you turn out the lights when you leave tonight,
Dave.  And set the coffee pot to have a fresh pot for tomorrow, if you
would.  Never know, someone else might come in!  ;->

Rick
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Easter, David <[email protected]>wrote:

> Um...  William Hurley (whurley) is also no longer with BMC.  He left in Nov
> 2009.
>
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/whurley
>
> -David J. Easter
> Sr. Product Manager, Enterprise Service Management
> BMC Software, Inc.
>
> The opinions, statements, and/or suggested courses of action expressed in
> this E-mail 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.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Jarl Grøneng
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 12:47 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: ARAPI.NET <http://arapi.net/> 7.5.xxx
>
> BMC has an open source evangelist, so why not :-)
> http://www.bmc.com/news/press-releases/2007-archive/75225900-3701.html
>
> --
> Jarl
>
> 2010/4/21 Easter, David <[email protected]>:
> > **
> >
> > There would be some effort involved in stripping out BMC or other
> > intellectual property not appropriate for open source - so it wouldn't be
> > trivial to do.  But yes, it's been considered.
> >
> >
> >
> > -David J. Easter
> >
> > Sr. Product Manager, Enterprise Service Management
> >
> > BMC Software, Inc.
> >
> >
> >
> > The opinions, statements, and/or suggested courses of action expressed in
> > this E-mail 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lyle Taylor
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 12:08 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: ARAPI.NET <http://arapi.net/> 7.5.xxx
> >
> >
> >
> > **
> >
> > Have you considered making the source code freely available?  I can
> > understand why you might not want to release the Java or C source code,
> but
> > since the .NET API is just a layer over the C code, I'm not sure there
> would
> > be any proprietary information in there that you wouldn't want getting
> out.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Lyle
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Easter, David
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 12:39 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: ARAPI.NET <http://arapi.net/> 7.5.xxx
> >
> >
> >
> > **
> >
> > The code was not lost - it was transferred to others within BMC.
> However, I
> > don't know that those individuals watch the ARSList.  I'll softly suggest
> > that they consider doing so.
> >
> >
> >
> > -David J. Easter
> >
> > Sr. Product Manager, Enterprise Service Management
> >
> > BMC Software, Inc.
> >
> >
> >
> > The opinions, statements, and/or suggested courses of action expressed in
> > this E-mail 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lyle Taylor
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 10:10 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: ARAPI.NET <http://arapi.net/> 7.5.xxx
> >
> >
> >
> > **
> >
> > Or did he leave the source code somewhere accessible so that anyone that
> > wants can fix it and rebuild it?
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of LJ LongWing
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 10:38 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: ARAPI.NET <http://arapi.net/> 7.5.xxx
> >
> >
> >
> > **
> >
> > Ok..now the next big question.did someone else unofficially pick up the
> > support, did he take it with him, or is that API now dead?
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Easter, David
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 10:27 AM
>  > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: ARAPI.NET <http://arapi.net/> 7.5.xxx
> >
> >
> >
> > **
> >
> > Just as an FYI, Appajee recently left BMC (of his own decision) - so he's
> no
> > longer a BMC employee.
> >
> >
> >
> > -David J. Easter
> >
> > Sr. Product Manager, Enterprise Service Management
> >
> > BMC Software, Inc.
> >
> >
> >
> > The opinions, statements, and/or suggested courses of action expressed in
> > this E-mail 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rick Cook
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 9:13 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: ARAPI.NET <http://arapi.net/> 7.5.xxx
> >
> >
> >
> > **
> >
> > I believe that Appajee is the person still caring for the .NET API set.
> He
> > has been pretty responsive in the past to issues brought up.  Might want
> to
> > go through the BMCDN, though, as he probably monitors that more than the
> > ARSList.
> >
> >
> >
> > Rick
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Lyle Taylor <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > That's a good suggestion, LJ.  Note, however, that the .NET API is not
> > officially supported, so you will probably need to contact the actual
> > developer of the API rather than BMC.  I believe it is a BMC employee, so
> > your e-mail will still go to BMC, but you would not go through the normal
> > support channel.  I believe the developer contact information is included
> > with the readme or similar that is included with the download.
> >
> > Lyle
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of LJ LongWing
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 10:04 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: ARAPI.NET <http://arapi.net/> 7.5.xxx
> >
> > Ok...I'm really out of my element on this one....but here is the obvious
> > error
> >
> > Unable to cast object of type 'System.UInt32' to type 'System.Object[]'.
> >
> > ....the un-obvious portion is why is it throwing this.  I would suspect
> > there is a bug in the api.  But to troubleshoot this I would modify the
> > program to pull a single 'sample' AL instead of all of them....this
> sample
> > would be a copy of one of the ones it's having problems with.  Then I
> would
> > start making basic mods to the al, remove the run if qual, change its
> fire
> > on conditions, remove actions one at a time, etc till I found the
> offending
> > item.  Then I would strip the AL down to just that condition causing the
> > fault and submit a ticket to BMC (or the support structure that supports
> the
> > VB API, if any) listing the code used and a def of the object causing the
> > issue.....
> >
> > I have had to do this SEVERAL times for the Java API...it typically takes
> > them 2-3 patches before they actually fix the API bugs, but they do
> > typically eventually get fixed....till then you hafta modify your program
> to
> > avoid the many potholes laying around.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Grooms, Frederick W
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 9:36 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: ARAPI.NET <http://arapi.net/> 7.5.xxx
> >
> > Sending this for Paul ...
> >
> > Version 7.1.00 Patch 007 200904160530
> >
> > AssemblyQualifiedName   BMC.ARSystem.ARTypeMgr, BMC.ARSystem,
> > Version=7.5.3397.30568, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=8cae4d61f13dc9bb
> >
> > _ARControlStruct
> > {"Unable to cast object of type 'System.UInt32' to type
> 'System.Object[]'."}
> >
> > StackTrace
> > at BMC.ARSystem.ARTypeMgr.ObjectFromVariantAR(Object& given, Object var,
> > Server server)
> > at BMC.ARSystem.ARTypeMgr.ObjectFromVariant(Object& given, Object var,
> > Server server)
> > at BMC.ARSystem.ARTypeMgr.ObjectFromVariant(Type typ, Object var, Server
> > server)
> > at BMC.ARSystem.Server.get__ARControlStruct()
> >
> >
> > DeclaringType   {Name = "ARTypeMgr" FullName = "BMC.ARSystem.ARTypeMgr"}
> > System.Type
> > IsAbstract      FALSE   Boolean
> > IsAssembly      TRUE    Boolean
> > IsConstructor   FALSE   Boolean
> > IsFamily        FALSE   Boolean
> > IsFamilyAndAssembly     FALSE   Boolean
> > IsFamilyOrAssembly      FALSE   Boolean
> > IsFinal FALSE   Boolean
> > IsGenericMethod FALSE   Boolean
> > IsGenericMethodDefinition       FALSE   Boolean
> > IsHideBySig     TRUE    Boolean
> > IsPrivate       FALSE   Boolean
> > IsPublic        FALSE   Boolean
> > IsSpecialName   FALSE   Boolean
> > IsStatic        FALSE   Boolean
> > IsVirtual       FALSE   Boolean
> > MemberType      Method {8}      System.Reflection.MemberTypes
> > MetadataToken   100663604       Integer
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of LJ LongWing
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 9:39 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: ARAPI.NET <http://arapi.net/> 7.5.xxx
> >
> > Can you provide the error?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Kowalski
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 6:03 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: ARAPI.NET <http://arapi.net/> 7.5.xxx
> >
> > I have a VB.NET <http://vb.net/> program that reads Active links. It's a
> simple loop thru all
> > active links and output the RunIfQualification, out of over 3000 active
> > links around 10 fail and I'm getting an error from arapi.net. The active
> > links that fail pretty simple (not complex).
> >
> > Are there any known issues or work arounds?
> >
> > Server ARS 7.01
> > ARAPI.NET <http://arapi.net/> 7.5 (downloaded last week)
> >
> >
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