Raising and Managing Support Cases

Reporting new issues via the Support Portal

For low- and medium-severity issues, open the case on the Micro Focus Support Portal page.

1. Log into the Support Portal.
2. From the menu ribbon at the top of the page, click Cases > New Case.
3. Select an Account from the drop-down menu.
4. In the Case Type field, we generally recommend that you select Technical Issue for new product questions and issues. However, you may select a different option if it describes your issue more succinctly.
5. Complete the fields through Severity as they become available.
   Tip: Hover over the icon for each field to see a popup description for that field.
6. In the Subject field, provide an informative short description that includes explicit and concise information, making it specific rather than general, for example write:

   Source won't compile, getting error code ###

   or

   Enterprise Server shows error code ### during restart

   rather than a more general and less useful description such as:

   Error with source compile

   or

   Enterprise server is crashing

7. Advance to the Description field.

   A Portal popup appears, showing published information that relates to your subject, and which might help you to resolve the issue yourself.

8. If you still need help, complete the Description field by providing a full description including as many of the following that apply to your case:
   • Step-by-step instructions for reproducing the problem
   • Compiler directives used
   • Third-party software used
   • Additional details as outlined in Preparing to Log a Support Case topic.
9. Submit the case.
   Important: Many cases also require that you attach additional files, which you can do after the case has been submitted. For complete information on the types of files you should attach, see the Preparing to Log a Support Case topic. See also the section Uploading attachments later in this topic.

Reporting new issues by phoning SupportLine

For high- and critical-severity issues, meaning either a production system is down or you are experiencing a major feature or function failure, call Micro Focus SupportLine at the appropriate telephone number listed on the Contact Support page.

Managing existing cases

To manage existing cases:

1. Log into the Support Portal.
2. Click Cases on the menu ribbon at the top of page, and then select the class of cases you want to view.
   Tip: When viewing the list of support cases, you can use settings and filters to adjust how they are displayed.
3. On the list of cases, click the Case Number link for the case you want to manage.

Uploading attachments

Before you can upload sample and diagnostic files, you need to get a drop box account user name and password from your SupportLine contact. To do this:

1. Have the case open in the Support Portal. See Managing existing cases above if you need instructions.
2. Hover over the name of your contact for the case, which appears under Contact Name at the top of the page.

   The contact information appears in a popup.

3. Contact your contact and obtain a drop-box account user name and password to use for your incident.
4. On your Case page, click the link under the Exchange files field to invoke the Micro Focus File Transfer Service, and use your drop-box account credentials to upload your files.