I've fallen madly in love...with our fabulous friend Watson   Watson is everything I could wish for... Insightful.  Visual.  Engaging.  Exciting.   And so easy to use! Liz also loves Watson.  As shown here ,  Liz can explore Maximo downtime data in Watson.  Watson enables her to identify key influencers of Asset Downtime.  Wow.  Knowing this - proactive measures to minimize downtime in the future can be taken.       You can join us and get started in exploring... [More]

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It has been more than a month since I wrote my last blog. In the previous versions of Maximo like Maximo 7.5, there is documentation to clone an environment. You can try to clone a Maximo 7.5 environment, and it can work without issues. However if you encounter errors that are impossible to fix with the cloning process and/or other component installs into this environment, you may need to do the 'original' installs on the new administrative workstation.   In Maximo and/or ICD 7.6, cloning of an environment is officially not... [More]

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If you are using an older fix pack level of WebSphere 7 or 8.5.5 (WebSphere 7.0.0.34 / 8.5.5.3 or earlier) and experienced an outage due to expired default certificates, first thing you will need to do is to renew them. Default WebSphere certificates should be renewed automatically. However, in some cases they were not.   "When certificate expiration monitor finds expired certificate, it examines if the certificate is signed by WebSphere Application Servers root certificate or not. If it is signed by its root, the expired certificate... [More]

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There is a new button in 7.6.0.4.  Result Set Export.  Let's call him RSE .  (We like acronyms.  Remember Balderdash?) RSE is similar to his friend, QBE .  QBE (Query By Example.  We really do like acronyms.) enables you to download an application's list tab results to Microsoft Excel. RSE enables you to download your result set contents to CSV format.  (Yup.  Comma Separated Values)      QBE -> Application List Tab Results -> Microsoft Excel      RSE ->... [More]

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  IBM Maximo Spatial Asset Management 7.6.0 IBM Maximo Spatial Asset Management is an add-on solution sold in combination with Maximo Asset Management and Maximo Industry Solutions – except – Maximo for Utilities which includes the spatial applications. Maximo Spatial provides a GIS solution that allows users to visualize, question, analyze, and interpret data to understand relationships, patterns, and trends. It allows users to look at data in a way that is quickly understood and easily shared on a map.   What’s New... [More]

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After the recent Windows updates, we noticed that EAR file builds are taking longer than usual. After some investigation on various forums, decided to update ANT and JAVA version in MAXIMO.   To check the current version of ANT in MAXIMO folder do following: cd \maximo\tools\ant\bin ant –version Apache Ant version 1.8.1 compiled on April 30 2010   To check the current version of JAVA in MAXIMO folder do these steps: \maximo\tools\java\jre\bin java -version java version "1.6.0" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build... [More]

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Have you tried report downtime in Workorder Tracking application and the hours field was not accepting the correct downtime or not displaying the correct downtime?   Today I have a tip about that. Unlike Person records, Asset records do not contain a field to specify the Asset's time zone. So, when the Asset's Calendar and Shift are evaluated to calculate downtime, that evaluation must assume that the Calendar and Shift have been entered to describe the Asset's available hours in the database server's time zone. For... [More]

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Maximo users have the ability to change password or reset it, where Maximo will send you an email notification with the password info for the user.   However, some people have asked for a way to provide a notification that goes out to new users after their User account has been created that includes both their Username and Password.     In the Communication Template you are able to include the username, but when you try to reference the user's password, it shows up as empty in the message.   So, is there a way to include... [More]

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I'm wondering if you ever had to create security privileges to prevent users from deleting attachments in Maximo records. Obviously, you will not want all the users from Maximo to delete the records, so it will be configured by Security Groups.   To prevent the users from Add a File to a record you have to revoke access to Create/Save records for this application .   However, to prevent them to delete it , you will have to create a security restriction and add to the "View Attachments" dialog. Since this is a common... [More]

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Do you want a silent installation for IFIX using imcl command? Here is the right channel! But what  is a silent instalation? Silent installation is when do you want install the Maximo Asset Management but you don't use the launchpad, you use commands lines, in this case imcl commands More details here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSPJLC_7.5.1/com.ibm.mam.inswas.doc/install/c_ccmdb_ccmdbinstallsilent.html So now you know how to install Maximo with imcl commands, but how about the IFIX installation? Ok, I can help you... [More]

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According to our latest Product Configuration Matrix , Maximo 7.6 adds supports Google Chrome 37, and Maximo 7.6.0.3 supports Microsoft's new Edge browser, in addition to Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.   These support statements require some clarification.   To use Maximo applications that use applets (for example, Scheduler or Workflow Designer), you have to install a JRE or JDK, and enable the Java applet in your browser. This is usually done by downloading the JRE from Oracle and... [More]

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Are you ready for a life-changing, breath-taking, mind blowing  data analysis experience??? We are and it is FABULOUS!  The perfect combination of IBM's Maximo Asset Management and Watson Analytics! Watson provides user-friendly, advanced, collaborative tools to analyze exported Maximo .csv files.   As a cloud-based offering, no complex installations or integrations are required.  Additionally, you can utilize it in ANY Maximo or Industry Solution offering.   Find out more about Watson thru..... 1.   Demo... [More]

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Are you ready?   Did you pack your bag full of business cards, and those super comfortable socks and walking shoes? We're ready!   We're super ready for InterConnect 2016 and can't wait to see you all SOON!     Here's a few hints to maximize your experience and networking at InterConnect 2016!   1.   Look for Maximo in Watson IoT (Internet of Things).    Need a way to remember this?  Try Maximo=Watson or MaxWatsonIoT or for acronoymn fans, MWIoT.  : )    2.  ... [More]

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Once every couple of months I will hear about our client getting the following Oracle error messages.  If you get one of these errors after restoring from backup or migrating to another server, please rebuild the sequence or Recreate Triggers: 1.  ORA-01400: cannot insert NULL into ("MAXIMO"."WORKPERIOD"."ROWSTAMP") RECREATE and ENABLE the TRIGGER      For Example:    create or replace TRIGGER WORKPERIOD_T    BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE ON WORKPERIOD    FOR EACH... [More]

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