This documentation supports the 18.08 version of Remedy IT Service Management Suite.

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Remedy IT Service Management Suite (Remedy ITSM Suite) and BMC Helix ITSM service provide out of-the-box IT Information Library (ITIL) service support functionality. Remedy ITSM Suite and BMC Helix ITSM service streamline and automate the processes around IT service desk, asset management, and change management operations. It also enables you to link your business services to your IT infrastructure to help you manage the impact of technology changes on business and business changes on technology — in real time and into the future. In addition, you can understand and optimize the user experience, balance current and future infrastructure investments, and view potential impact on the business by using a real-time service model.

Release notes and notices
updated 03 Dec

Learn what’s new or changed for BMC Remedy IT Service Management 18.08, including new features, urgent issues, documentation updates, and fixes or patches. 

Note

This section only includes information about changes since the most recent release of BMC Remedy IT Service Management (ITSM). If you are upgrading from a previous release, review the release notes for all applicable versions of the product. For example, if you are upgrading from version 7.6.04, review the release notes for versions 8.0, 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, and 18.05.

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Known and corrected issues

BMC Remedy ITSM Suite 18.08 Deployment release notes (installation and upgrade)

BMC Service Desk 18.08 release notes

BMC Service Request Management 18.08 Release notes and notices

BMC Remedy Action Request System 18.08 release notes

BMC Change Management 18.08 release notes

BMC Atrium Core 18.08 Release notes and notices

BMC Service Level Management 18.08 Release notes and notices

DateTitleSummary
December 1, 2020Remedy Smart Reporting license expirationFlash notification that describes how you can renew the Remedy Smart Reporting license.
March 30, 2020Discontinued support for SAP Crystal Reports integration with Remedy AR System.

Starting with the obsolescence date (March 30, 2020) of SAP Crystal Reports integration with Remedy AR System, BMC does not support this integration and BMC is no longer contractually entitled to distribute the SAP Crystal Reports Viewer software. For more information, see Deprecated features.

November 29, 201818.08.01: Patch 1 for version 18.08

This patch consolidates all the Hot Fixes delivered for Remedy IT Service Management version 18.08 and later into a single patch release. The patch contains fixes in Foundation, Incident Management, Release Management, and Remedy Smart Reporting areas.

The patch also includes an enhancement to Service Level Management. For more information, see Service Level Management documentation for 18.08.01: Patch 1 for version 18.08 .

August 31, 201818.08 enhancements

Enhancements to BMC Cognitive Service Management:

  • Automatically apply templates to incidents or change requests that are created by using emails

Enhancements to Remedy with Smart IT (Smart IT) are:

    • Configuring provider action by using expression
    • Enhancements to BMC Cognitive Service Management feature for Smart Recorder and Mobile client
    • New configuration parameters
    • Enhancement in template text position
    • Enhancement in knowledge article to display Status and Version in search result
    • Enhancement in knowledge article to display title in wrapped texts

Enhancements to BMC Remedy Smart Reporting:

  • Support for onboarding and synchronizing users from the Smart Reporting Custom App Users group

Using

 

As an end user, access the Remedy ITSM Suite applications and navigate the interface.

Developing

 

As a developer, customize BMC Helix Remedy and Remedy ITSM Suite.

Administering

 

As an administrator, manage and maintain Remedy ITSM Suite after it is installed and ensure that it is available to end users.

Integrating

 

As an administrator, set up integrations with other BMC products or third-party software.

Troubleshooting

 

Resolve common issues or errors, review logs, or contact Support.

Planning

 

(On-premises only) Plan an installation or upgrade based on recommended deployment architecture, best practices, sizing, and system requirements.

Installing

 

(On-premises only) Install and perform initial system configuration.

Upgrading

 

(On-premises only) Upgrade based on the latest system requirements and software.
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FAQs and additional resources

 

This topic provides information that supplements the Remedy ITSM Suite documentation. It contains the following sections:

Frequently asked questions

Frequently Asked Questions on Remedy ITSM Process Designer

Frequently asked questions for Remedy Smart Reporting

Frequently asked questions on Remedy ITSM Data Access Model

 

Where to find information previously provided in release notes

Type of information

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New features (enhancements) and other information

18.05 enhancements

  • Issues corrected by the base release and its service packs and patches
  • Issues that are currently open

Known and corrected issues

The documentation for BMC Remedy ITSM Suite  is split between multiple spaces, so a space-level search performed in the box in the left navigation pane does not search all the documentation for this release. The following spaces also document this release:

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The BMC Documentation portal gives you the ability to generate PDF and Microsoft Word documents of single pages, and to create PDF exports of multiple pages in a space.  

Creating PDF and Word exports

You can create a PDF of a page or a set of pages. (Non-English page exports are not supported.) You can also create a Word document of the current page.

To export to PDF or Word

  1. From the Tools menu in the upper-right, select a format:
    • Export to Word to export the current page to Word format
    • Export to PDF to export the current page or a set of pages to PDF
  2. If exporting to PDF, select what you want to export:
    • Only this page to export the current page
    • This page and its children to export a set of pages
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Depending on the number of topics included in the export, it might take several minutes to create the PDF. Once the export is complete, you can download the PDF.

Additional resources from BMC

The following BMC sites provide information outside of the Remedy ITSM Suite documentation that you might find helpful:


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Other useful sites 

The following site, which is not created or endorsed by BMC, also provides information that you might find helpful:

  • The Action Request System discussion list, ARSLIST

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