Contributors:  Steve Hauptman, Ted Lyons, Mike Sielian, John Cook, Melody Bienfang     Introduction   This post describes a technical solution that gives clients the flexibility to delete attached documents (DOCLINKS) seamlessly and with ease. By leveraging existing functionality in Maximo namely Escalations and Automation Scripting, you can purge attached documents from the location where the document physically lives. A selection criteria should be defined in an Escalation  (e.g. STATUS = 'CLOSED') along with... [More]

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If you are an IBM client, business partner, consultant, or even a IBM Maximo developer you should be following the Maximo Development Best Practices when customizing Maximo Business Objects (MBO's).  As a Maximo developer and Lab Advocate, I have dealt with many clients who have extended Maximo business objects and have made their own customizations. When extending the MBO's you should be aware that if done incorrectly, it could lead your end users to experience poor performance, out of memory errors and/or system crashes amongst... [More]

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Sometimes using Maximo Spatial, user will prefer to see only specific layers on the map in order to have a clearer perspective In the following screenshot we can see that Hydrants, Water Mains and Water Lateral Lines are being displayed on the map.     If user wants to display only the hydrants, he can unselect all other layers:   In addition to that, user can also choose if layer info will be available or not Check that the layer Water Hydrants is highlighted inside Layers Tool Panel, which means that Identify Tool will bring... [More]

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Hello Everyone! Now that we have 7.6.0.1 installed , and we have updated all our applications(including the customized apps),   it's time to finally get our Maps ready! I would like to lead you to do some preliminary steps before we proceed on getting your map ready for Spatial!   One of the major new functionalities introduced within Maximo Spatial 7.6 is the usage of Feature Services. This allows us to easily bring data into Maximo from your Feature Service.... [More]

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Hello Everyone! Over the next few days/weeks, I will be sharing with you some information regarding Maximo Spatial 7.6 , and more specifically 7.6.0.1. If you are now installing Spatial 7.6.0.1 you can take a look at our Maximo Spatial Wiki's Spatial Matrix to keep an eye on supported versions: Maximo Spatial Matrix From my previous post, most of you are already aware of the Spatial 7.6.0.1 release . To deliver good news, I wanted to let everyone know that Maximo Spatial 7.6.0.1 is now supported against TPAE 7.6.0.5! You... [More]

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Ever wondered if the Interim Fix you were sent for a specific APAR a while back and that you didn't get the chance to apply on your Maximo environment, is still up-to-date? Since those are cumulative, it might be worth applying the latest version and therefore include the more recent APAR fixes delivered for that specific fixpack level. You might therefore want to check out the " Maximo Interim Fixes " blog on IBM DeveloperWorks: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/connect/maximoifix You can find the latest Interim Fixes that were... [More]

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As many of you may know Maximo TPAE (Base) fixes are bundled with Scheduler fixes. I just wanted to make this quick blog entry to share what each base version had bundled with it. Maximo version 7504 and lower comes with fixes for scheduler version 751, versions 7505 and higher come with fixes for scheduler 752. My co-worker pointed out that Maximo 7.6.0.0 has Scheduler 7.5.3.   What this means if upgrading from a previous version of Maximo to a newer version you will need to plan to upgrade your scheduler version at the same time.... [More]

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I have been in Maximo Support for many years and often the question comes up what does LIFO/FIFO do? You can define your costs on an item by item basis by changing the cost type in Inventory on that item or a default for your site in the Organization application->Select Action->Inventory Options->Inventory Costs. In here, you can define what accounting method you want to track so that your costs reflect the standard for that item. When you do that, the Inventory application displays a different table. Before LIFO/FIFO was incorporated... [More]

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The current Migration Group, CLASSIFICATIONDATA, does not migrate the Attributes and Measure Units. This can result in missing descriptions on Attributes and Measure Units which can be confusing for the end user. The solution is to add two new Migration Objects for these two objects so that they can be migrated and then to create a new Migration Group containing the exisitng DMCLASSIFICATION Migration Object and the two new created Migration Objects for Attributes and Measure Units. Creating the two new Migration Objects Go to the System... [More]

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Interested in HA and DR configuration with SCCD and Maximo?  A new RedBook draft is now available for download.   In today’s global environment, more and more organizations need to reduce their downtime to the minimum possible and look for continuous availability of their systems. Products based on the IBM® Tivoli® Process Automation Engine (TPAE), like IBM Maximo® Asset Management, Maximo Industry Solutions, and IBM SmartCloud™ Control Desk, often play a role in such environments and thus also have continuous availability... [More]

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Here in the Maximo development team we try to reinvent the wheel as little as possible. Part of the reason we run on application servers such as WebSphere is the robust feature set that they offer – and that we don’t have to build. Especially in the area of security, we leverage the capabilities of the application server for a great deal of functionality. Many of our certifications for things like IPv6 compliance and encryption standards come directly from the capabilities of the application server. We use application server capabilities for... [More]

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Introduction IBM released Maximo 7.5 in April 2011. This release is built on top of Tivoli process automation engine (Tpae) 7.5. Tpae 7.5 provides a number of improvements and enhancements in many different areas. One of the key Tpae components with significant new features is Migration Manager. These features were added based on customer input and experience using Migration Manager. The goal in adding these new features is to accelerate migration package design and the overall migration effort while reducing the implementation burden... [More]

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  If you are a developer working with Maximo's MXServer API you may find the following public methods useful. They are exposed via the MXServerRemote interface and can be accessed through a static reference ... MXServer.getMXServer().   These methods are available in TPAE 7.5 and higher and also in fix packs 7.1.1.6 and higher.   ___________________________________________________________________________________ public ArrayList getMboCounts() throws MXApplicationException   This method returns an ArrayList of MboSet and Mbo counts. The Array... [More]

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Overview I see a lot of clients who are always asking for updating user status based on their status in Active Directory (AD). While this functionality does not come with base Maximo, it can be accomplished by using a method that involves adding a custom (meaning not in Maximo by default) attribute to Maximo that pulls the status directly from the field in AD that tracks user status. After adding the attribute to Maximo, we can pull the data from AD via the VMMSYNC or LDAPSYNC, and then once we have the information, we can use an escalation to... [More]

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