This documentation supports the 20.08 version of Remedy IT Service Management Suite, which is available only to BMC Helix subscribers (SaaS).

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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 06 Mar

Learn what’s new or changed for Remedy IT Service Management Suite 20.08, including new features, urgent issues, documentation updates, and fixes or patches. 


Important

This section only includes information about changes since the most recent release of Remedy IT Service Management (ITSM) Suite. 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 9.0, 9.1, 18.05, 18.08, 19.02, 19.08, 19.11, and 20.02.

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Remedy Change Management release notes

Remedy Asset Management release notes

Remedy Knowledge Management release notes

Remedy Smart Reporting release notes

Remedy Service Desk release notes

BMC Service Level Management release notes

BMC Service Request Management Release notes

Remedy Single Sign-On release notes

Remedy with Smart IT release notes

DateSummaryReference
March 6, 2023

20.08 patch 15 includes defect fixes for Remedy with Smart IT.

20.08 patches
October 15, 2022

20.08 patch 14 includes fixes and updates in Action Request System.

20.08 patches
June 13, 20221

20.08 patch 13 includes defect fixes for Remedy with Smart IT.

20.08 patches
January 7, 2022

20.08 patch 12 includes defect fixes for Remedy with Smart IT and BMC Service Request Management.

.20.08 patches v20.08.12
September 16, 2021 

20.08 patch 9 includes defect fixes for Remedy with Smart IT.

.20.08 patches v20.08.12
July 28, 2021

20.08 patch 4 includes defect fixes for Remedy with Smart IT  and BMC Service Request Management.

.20.08 patches v20.08.12
June 21, 2021

20.08 patch 3 includes defect fixes for Remedy with Smart IT  and BMC Service Request Management.

.20.08 patches v20.08.12
May 19, 2021

20.08 patch 2 includes fixes and updates in BMC Helix Innovation Studio, and defect fixes for Remedy with Smart IT .

.20.08 patches v20.08.12
April 21, 2021

20.08 patch 1 includes fixes and updates in Action Request System.

.20.08 patches v20.08.12
September 23, 2020

Enhancements to Remedy IT Service Management Suite are:

  • Remedy no longer uses Adobe Flash
  • Ability to relate task or task group templates to incident templates
  • Indicate Chat as the reported source for incidents

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

  • Revamped screens for work orders and incidents
  • Ability to relate task or task group templates to incident templates
  • Ability to enable or disable the debug logging of Smart IT in the Centralized configuration
  • Indicate Chat as the reported source for incidents and work orders
  • Automatically assign tickets created from BMC Live Chat
  • Ability to submit a service request from the Digital Workplace Catalog in Smart Recorder
  • Introduction of an attention flag to define the priority of work
  • Agents can set their screen name to be displayed to end users in BMC Live Chat
  • Dashboard to monitor agent assignment load and chat sessions

Enhancements to Remedy Smart Reporting are:

  • Performance improvement for Report Design with Calculated Field
  • Performance improvement for broadcasting through email
  • View status of previous executions of broadcasts
  • Ability to check data connectivity by enabling volatile data source settings
20.08 enhancements

1 There are no patches with version numbers 20.08.05, 20.08.06, 20.08.07, 20.08.08, 20.08.10, and 20.08.11.

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.
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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


Where to find information previously provided in release notes

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New features (enhancements) and other information

20.08 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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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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