Remedy Action Request System 20.02

This space contains information about Remedy Action Request System (Remedy AR System), Remedy Encryption Security, and Remedy Migrator products, including service packs and patches. Remedy Action Request System enables you to automate many business processes without learning a programming language or complex development tools.

Release notes and notices Updated 17 Apr 2025

Learn what’s new or changed for Remedy Action Request System 20.02, including new features, urgent issues, documentation updates, and fixes or patches. Also know about license entitlement information for the release.

The feature enhancements delivered in 19.11 BMC Helix ITSM (SaaS-only) release are also available in the Remedy AR System 20.02 release.

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The following table lists the enhancements in this release:

Date	Title	Summary
April 15, 2025	Patch 8 for version 20.02	This patch consolidates all the patches and hotfixes delivered for Remedy AR System version 20.02 and later into a single patch release. Issues that were corrected by 20.02 patch 08 and issues that remain open
August 30, 2024	Patch 7 for version 20.02	This patch consolidates all the patches and hotfixes delivered for Remedy AR System version 20.02 and later into a single patch release. Issues that were corrected by 20.02 patch 07 and issues that remain open
April 10, 2024	Patch 6 for version 20.02	This patch consolidates all the patches and hotfixes delivered for Remedy AR System version 20.02 and later into a single patch release. Issues that were corrected by 20.02 patch 06 and issues that remain open
October 10, 2023	Patch 5 for version 20.02	This patch consolidates all the patches and hotfixes delivered for Remedy AR System version 20.02 and later into a single patch release. Issues that were corrected by 20.02 patch 05 and issues that remain open
January 13, 2023	Patch 4 for version 20.02	This patch consolidates all the patches and hotfixes delivered for Remedy AR System version 20.02 and later into a single patch release. Patch 04 contains the updates delivered in Patch 01, Patch 02, and Patch 03 for version 20.02.
October 23, 2022	Patch 3 for version 20.02	This patch consolidates all the patches and hotfixes delivered for Remedy AR System version 20.02 and later into a single patch release. Patch 03 contains the updates delivered in Patch 01 and Patch 02 for version 20.02.
October 06, 2020	Patch 2 for version 20.02	This patch consolidates all the patches and hot fixes delivered for Remedy AR System version 20.02 and later into a single patch release. Patch 02 contains the updates delivered in Patch 01 for version 20.02, including Adobe Flash replacement capabilities. Important Before you install this patch, ensure that Remedy AR System version 20.02 is installed.
August 28, 2020	Patch 1 for version 20.02	Important Patch 2 for version 20.02is available. You must directly upgrade from version 20.02 to Patch 2 (20.02.02) of Remedy IT Service Management Suite. This patch consolidates all the hot fixes delivered for Remedy AR System version 20.02 and later into a single patch release. Following updates are available in the patch release: Replacing Adobe Flash with HTML 5 in Remedy Mid Tier We have implemented viable alternatives to use Remedy without Adobe Flash Player and enhanced the following product capabilities and features: Ability to render sequence diagram or table by using HTML rendering. The sequence diagram is displayed when you click the Approval Details icon on Approval Central. For more information, see Approval Central. Enhanced various BMC CMDB UI capabilities such as Dynamic Service Modeling, CMDB Audit, Federated Class Management. Ability to access the new CMDB Explorer through Remedy ITSM applications. Enhanced visualization features such as creating and viewing processes in BMC Service Request Management. The Openfire Chat plug-in is not supported with Remedy AR System. You can use Smart IT Openfire Chat for agent-to-agent communication. Support for OAuth 2.0 authentication for EWS protocol in Email Engine
February 21, 2020	20-02-enhancements	Enhancements available in this release: (Versions 19.11 and later) Ability to send event notifications from AR System form to external applications (Versions 19.11 and later) New REST API endpoints to retrieve menu metadata (Versions 19.11 and later) Improved search results (FTS and MFS) with exact match of search strings Third-party compatibility update Removal of bundled Tomcat from ITSM Suite installer Additional configuration checks for Remedy AR System (Versions 19.11 and later) The URL-Safe-Encode command to encode the URL input (Versions 19.11 and later) A new report format called Spudsoft Excel for AR Web reports

Getting started See more		Using As an end user, navigate the Remedy AR System interface, create and manage reports, work with approval requests, and view data using Remedy Flashboards. See more
		Developing an application As a developer or application programmer, develop or customize a Remedy AR System application, navigate the Remedy Developer Studio interface, and move the application to production and distribute the application. See more
		Developing an API program As a developer or application programmer, integrate the Remedy AR System forms with any third-party application by using REST API. See more
Administering As an administrator or security administrator, set up user accounts and manage and maintain the system after it is installed and configured. See more	Integrating As an administrator, set up integrations with other BMC products or third-party software. See more	Troubleshooting Resolve common issues or errors, review logs, or contact Support. See more