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Hi Laurens, Thank you for asking this question because it is on the lips of many of us. Let's start with what matters the most to me: "When and how to use the Sequence tag and its noset attribute":...

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Hi Lewis, Thank you for your question! This is going to be your IT policy blocking it. Allowing communication with the following should solve the issue: https://login.microsoftonline.com/* https://aadcdn.msftauth.net/*...

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Hi Filiep, This is indeed expected behavior. In the database, the first 100 bytes of a primary key must be unique. By default, UTF-8-char encoding is used, which encodes a char in as many bytes as required,...

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Hi Jens, I got confirmation that this is a bug in our current pipeline building the visio packages. The same issue will be on ALL visio packages for connectors at the moment. The responsible team (Data-Acq)...

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I would say there are multiple aspect to it. This makes it easy to define what needs to be displayed where. With current approach, we can indeed easily chose to: display a read-only on page A display...

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Hi Diogo, What you tried there with dependencyValues there was a very good try making full sense. However, the dependencyValues feature was very likely not designed to work that way and expects unique...

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Hi Reza, All of this seems to work fine over here with the exact same DIS version. Therefore, can I ask you to verify and share your DIS settings? If that is all correctly setup and still not working,...

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Hi Piotr, Allowing communication with the following should be enough to have DIS running: https://login.microsoftonline.com/* https://aadcdn.msftauth.net/* https://*.dataminer.services/* https://api.skyline.be/*...

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Hi Arne, As far as I can tell, this is currently not possible no. Export rules can currently only be used to change tag or attribute values but not to fully remove them. Feel free to make a new feature...

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Hi Fernando, The latest Insider version of DIS now supports VS 2022 and you can find it on following dojo page: DataMiner Integration Studio - Downloads - DataMiner Dojo Typically, users are subscribing...

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Hi Timothy, What I can say for sure: The NoCheckingSets flag is not about making the call sync or async. It\'s \"only\" about: do we want to verify if the read parameter was properly updated to the...

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Hi Khoo Chee Yang, When having a basic serial response (no header, trailer, checksum, etc), DataMiner will fill in the response parameters one by one. This means that if the beginning of the defined response...

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Hi Mieke, no, as opposed to the behavior of QAction SetParameter() calls, a copy action on a read parameter will only cause a parameter change event to be raised if the value of the read parameter actually...

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Hi Aston, As soon as a response contains some 'next param' parameters, a read response action should be used in order to properly fill in those parameters. Such action should be called by a before response...

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Hi Manuel, How is the parameter filled in? I just tried it with a parameter filled in via SNMP polling and there it correctly discards values that are out of range. However, if the value is set from a...

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Answer provided by David regarding delta calculation is correct but let me add my 2 cents regarding making the polling timer fixed:You have 2 options there, the easy one is indeed to make that timer fixed.The...

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Hi Dario, The best way to achieve what you are trying to do is to do it via InterAppCalls. This way both the automation script(s) and the context-menu can make use of the same InterAppCalls. Your context-menu...

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Hi Curtis, Which version of the connector are you using? Normally, there is no other place to be changed, no. You only need to change it via the "Ethernet Available Streams" table and the connector and...

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Hi Thijs, Downloading artifacts from GitHub directly is indeed not supported at the moment. Currently, the different options are: - Enable CD in order to publish to the Catalog. To get there you can use...

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Hi Jens, A good start would be to look at the VS output view: Then select "DIS - Class Library" in the "show output from" dropdown:

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Hi Michiel, There is indeed no need for a ping group in such exceptional case. This is a known DIS Validator issue and a task already exists for it: https://collaboration.dataminer.services/task/32907...

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Hi Alex, The issue here is due to the fact you don't have the expected Dataminer version installed locally. The confusion was due to the fact that other developers in your team didn't have Dataminer...

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Hi Micah, Since the introduction of the Param/Database/Partition@partitionsToKeep attribute, adding a column of type 'DateTime' is not required anymore. That feature was introduced in DataMiner 9.6.0...

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Hi Thomas, I just tried it on my local element and there is works fine. I correctly see the HTTP Connection settings. So it has to be something environmental: - bug in that specific DM version? - where...

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Hi, As mentioned by Joao, this is currently not possible. In such use-case, what we would typically do is to move all the related logic into a pre-compile QAction. Then you can make 2 different QActions...

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Hi Thomas, At first sight, this seems like a software issue to me. Looking at your screenshots, I seem to see a pattern in there, it seems that: suffixes are correctly removed from read-only columns....

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Hi Julian, As an extra side note, you should let DataMiner add and calculate the Content-Length header instead of hard-coding it in the connector.

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Hi Julio, Does your protocol have the unicode option in the Protocol/Type@options attribute? If not, adding that will probably be your solution. However, note that adding it will be a breaking change...

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This is indeed known issue. A task already exists for this but didn't make it through the backlog yet: https://collaboration.dataminer.services/task/75168 Regarding the OID@type attribute, complete is...

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Hi Davor, This is something to investigate so hard for me to give a straight answer but here are some pointers already: This table is a rather large table (67 snmp columns), have you tried changing...

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Hi Jordan, thank you for this interesting question. Question 1: By default, this would not help as, by default, QAction executions are synchronous, only one can run at a time. It could potentially help...

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Hi Brecht, Thank you for your question! I would like to start by stating that the behavior you describe is according to how it's documented. I'm personally not aware of a way to put the element in timeout...

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Hi Jana, There is quite a lot to explain here and depending on your use-case and expertise, I could come up with many different answer 🙂 but let me try to make some assumptions and answer as good as...

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DirectConnection already exists for a while. I think it's safe to say that you can use it since DM 10.0. It existed prior to that but were still actively being develop so their might have been many missing...

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Hi Robin, Thank you for this very interesting question! After re-reading following use-case: Debugging connectors: RTE caused by non-poll group in timer | DataMiner Docs. it seems to make perfect sense...

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Hi Elvio, There is not really any specific training for virtual connectors, no. However, there is also no specific knowledge to share about those. Basically, all the generic knowledge about protocols...

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Hi, Allow me to elaborate a bit more on this question. When you want to update a table (different rows and columns) in one bulk call but don't need to update the whole table, you have different options...

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