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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This entry does not provide a detailed step-by-step but the intention is to give an idea of the applications involved in each scenario.   Moving a Rotating Asset from a Storeroom to a 'Salvage' locaiton Using Move/Modify Asset and Issue Current Item from within Inventory application does not accomplish this, neither does the Move/Modify Asset from within the Assets application In order to accomplish the successful move, there is a two-step process. You will use the Inventory Usage application to ISSUE the asset from the Storeroom... [More]

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There is a lot of confusion and misunderstanding when it comes to LDAP, and about what is and what isn't possible. I want to take some time to discuss the possibilities for Maximo with LDAP, as well as go over the considerations and configuration of setting up VMMSYNC. There will be a second blog to follow with a similar take for LDAPSYNC. Here I want to focus on VMMSYNC. The goal is for this to be a comprehensive guide for VMMSYNC. I will be starting with the basics then going into more details going along. Topics to be discussed: Overview... [More]

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I do not know if you have already noticed that in the main screen of Asset there exists a flag titled "Maintain Hierarchy?" Well, this flag is evil .... When you check it, the asset gets "stuck" I mean, you can not move or swap or delete this asset.... And this flag becomes uneditable! And as there are no limits to the worst, you can not uncheck it through the application ... never If you try to move or swap this asset you will get the following error message: BMXAA0074E - Asset XXX in site AAA... [More]

Are you new to using the Graphical Scheduling and Graphical Assignments application? If you are then this is for you. I created a quick document outlining what to expect when planning with crew, crew types, crafts and labor. I had a customer ask this question earlier in the week, so I thought it best to create a quick and simple entry on it and share it with you all.    Link to DCF:   http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22001399

When a user tries to open an xlsx attachment, the attachment does not automatically open up, and instead prompts to save the record as an docx file.   To resolve this, you will have to update the mime.types file.   1. Add the following line to the mime.types file: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document docx pptx xlsx 2. Restart the IBM HTTP Server. 3. Added the following lines to the httpd.conf file: AddType application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document docx AddType... [More]

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Users are unable to navigate solely using the keyboard. For instance if a user has the cursor in the Asset field in the Assets application and hits tab on the keyboard, the cursor moves to the Description field. It skips the Detail Menu next to the Asset field preventing a user from accessing the detail menu information i.e. Select Value menu solely using the keyboard.   To resolve this, you have to enable the Screen Reader. Please do the following: 1. Go to Users application 2. Bring up the user that needs the Screen Reader enabled 3. In... [More]

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If you use the Desktop Requisition application and did a simple search on it, you may have noticed that you have a lot of useless requests there. Well, requisitions can be closed in the following ways:                       1) Direct Issue Materials that have a PO created. (line type =... [More]

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When a PM hierarchy generates Work Orders or a forecast and you are getting more or less work orders/forecast than expected.   When a PM hierarchy generates Work Orders or a forecast, the highest frequency belonging to any PM with attribute "USEFREQUENCY" set to true will be used for all PMs in that hierarchy.   For example:   Consider a PM hierarchy with a top-level PM and a child PM, with respective frequencies of one year, and one month.  Top-level PM - frequency 1 year Child PM - frequency 1 month   If... [More]

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The Interim Fix (IFIX) is available at Fix Central.   As with all IFIXes, MAM 7604 IFIX 011 is cumulative and includes all fixes provided with Maximo Asset Management 7.6.0.4 Interim Fix 010, with these additions:   APAR Application Name Description IV94242 Report Administration In the Report Administration application, when multiple scheduled reports exist and you use the View Scheduled Reports function, only one scheduled report is displayed. IV91221 System User Interface In the View/Manage Queries dialog box, when you... [More]

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You may need to use a custom view for a special requirement and setup a lookup for the field. Create a View for an Example I have created a custom view PERSON_MAINT Create a database view with the following definition Create or replace view person_maint as select personid RISK_OWNER, displayname name, 'PERSON' owner_type from person where status = 'ACTIVE' union select value RISK_OWNER, description name, 'PERSON_MAINT' owner_type From synonymdomain where domainid = 'PERSON_MAINT' order by owner_type ; Create... [More]

If you only have one Site configured for your system. In the meantime if you want to default to the site value when Authorize Site on the Purchase Contracts application. You can write an automation script to set the default site value. The difficulty is the user has to authorize a site each time when creating a new contract. In order to achieve this. Create an Object Launch Point Object CONTRACTAUTH                                         Click... [More]

Application Designer is used to load presentation XML files, however there is a limit of 10 MB per file. How to resolve this, in case you need to upload a larger than 10 MB file?   If you are working with the import in Application Designer, this process doesn't use the mxe.doclink.maxfilesize property, since it is used only for Attached Documents.     If you wish to attempt changing this limit, please note the setting is found in the... [More]

The email notifications in Maximo are basically processed for communication templates and escalations records or workflow processes nodes where the email notification can be also configured.   For example, you can use escalations to monitor time-sensitive records and key performance indicators (KPIs). When you create escalation records, you can specify that email notifications are generated when a record reaches the defined escalation point.   For workflow, you can design a workflow process to generate notifications about the progress... [More]