Please Post Your Forums Successes - November/December 2004

[Kimberly Ann]

Hi Everyone,

Please submit your highlights and successes you have had while participating in the ITRC Forums community. Your feedback helps convey the positive influences the forums have had on your IT life. For example, have you:

1. Posted a question and received a key answer that solved your problem?
2. Have you viewed a message thread that had a solution to a problem you were trying to solve?
3. Found the Forums to be of particular help in sharing information, exchanging best practices, or saving you time?

I'd really like to hear from everyone -- your circumstances, the issues, the outcome, who was of help, time saved, etc.! If you have examples to share, please provide the URL of the thread if possible.

Thanks in advance for your input!

Best Regards,
Dan Gazzaniga

[Steve Lewis]

Top thread on PA-RISC vs. Itanium 2, with some first class ideas from the forums top gurus. IMHO this thread is as good as a day's consultancy.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=733881

[Ivajlo Yanakiev]

Yes,

This forum is realy good and useful.
Every time I find right decision.

[Ladislav Kostal]

After long searches through various sources on the web finally I got answer here:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=734157

Thanks for help.

[Steven E. Protter]

Success?

Suceeded in making me feel good about my work here.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=773458

SEP

[Ivajlo Yanakiev]

This forum is realy good I like it :)

I find new things and decisions.
Happy new year

[Jan van den Ende]

Dan,

A serious problem solved for us,
with a lot of learning on the side, and some nice 'utilities' generated during the quest.

To me sure qualifies as "success"!

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=723580

Proost.

Have one on me.

Seasonal greetings to all!

Jan

[Stanimir]

Hi!
I have received a good start in our project "OVO into MCSG" from here:
forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=763379

Thanks to all, who answer on my questions.
Regards,Stan

[Daryl Much]

Dan - all three of your examples apply. I usually search the forum first for problems I can't solve and I almost always find an answer (folks where I work really think I know what I'm doing, little do they know...). I get the daily summaries and these are very helpful with new information - they send me on many useful tangents from the daily grind. I also like the use of the forum as an archive of older information.

Keep up the good work everyone!

(These forums must save HP lots of support calls.)

Regards,

Chuck Davis

[Stuart Abramson · Accepted solution]

Dan:

1. Anh
There is a new user called "Anh" who is posting questions without subject lines. That makes it impossible to reply to him and he isn't getting any answers.

Can you help him out? I would tell him if I could. Just tell him to put a subject line.

2. HP forums the best...
The Forum should be modified to require subject lines to prevent this in the future.

The HP Forums are absolutely the most useful forum method anywhere from any vendor. Here's why:
..If you are doing somethign that crosses vendor lines, such as for example BCV scripting, a single vendor help-desk doesn't help much, because they don't know the "cross-vendor" stuff. To do BCV scripts for an Oracle database you need to know:
..EMC disks,
..EMC BCV commands,
..HP-UX (or Solaris, etc),
..ksh scripting and
..Oracle DBA "stuff"

People on the HP forums have done these things and can answer your questions.

Whenever the EMC web page (PowerLink) asks for suggestions, I direct them to the HP Forums.