You may want to know how to change the color of the Start Center's menu bar, to change from blue to red, for example. Below is a reference to a document on how to change the Tivoli09 skin.    Modifying the Navigation Bar with Skin09 enabled  http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21450132     If you don't have the Tivoli09 skin enabled, please follow the below steps:    You will need to navigate to:    <maximo_root>\applications\maximo\maximouiweb\webmodule\webclient\images... [More]

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Go to SR Application and filter status =QUEUED so you can display only queued service requests   Save this query as queuedsr with description of Display Queued SR and make it public where clause (status = 'QUEUED')               Go to Start center and edit Change Content/Layout For Right Column select Results Set click OK to Finish Go to Start Center and Edit Portlet Select your query queuedsr Select the fields Ticketid, Description, Status, and Targetfinish and Save In the Display Option... [More]

Starting in Maximo 7.6 a side navigation bar is available.  Please keep reading to find out what your options are for configuring when the side navigation bar will appear. The side navigation settings can be configured at three different levels in Maximo 7.6 (System, Group, and User).  At the system level there is a system property called 'mxe.webclient.systemNavBar' to enable/disable using the side navigation bar for the entire instance.  If the side navigation is enabled at the system level then it defaults to use... [More]

In Classification application create a Classification xx with 192 characters. Create another Classification yy with 192 characters. For classification yy set the parent as the classification xx and save. You will receive the above error. If ClassificationID is set to 192 characters. The ClassStructure.HierarchyPath field would have a larger length to allow the display of the ClassificationID plus the ancestor IDs in the path. If a Classification has created with a value that was 192 characters, then it would potentially not fit into the... [More]

  Welcome to the EAM Corner!!!! My name is Ghazala and I work in level 2 support for IBM on the EAM product. This blog series will all be helpful tips, tricks and how-to's on Maximo EAM . Be sure to follow me on DeveloperWorks  --------->   Click here to follow me on DeveloperWorks! In this blog I will cover an interesting topic regarding an Rounding Issue With The Reorder Quantity.   Following steps have been used to reproduce the issue: 1. Go to Inventory > Item Master >... [More]

  Welcome to the EAM Corner!!!! My name is Ghazala and I work in level 2 support for IBM on the EAM product. This blog series will all be helpful tips, tricks and how-to's on Maximo EAM . Be sure to follow me on DeveloperWorks  --------->   Click here to follow me on DeveloperWorks!   In this blog entry I will highlight an issue my client encountered  with the GL account not updating correctly in Purchase Requisitions Application.   Following steps have... [More]

  Welcome to the EAM Corner!!!! My name is Ghazala and I work in level 2 support for IBM on the EAM product. This blog series will all be helpful tips, tricks and how-to's on Maximo EAM . Be sure to follow me on DeveloperWorks  --------->   Click here to follow me on DeveloperWorks!   In this blog I will cover an issue I recently came across whereas the system allows the canceling of a Purchase Requisitions, when it's linked with the Request for Quotations..   Following... [More]

Hello,   With the growing popularity of cloud based services these days we (Maximo L2 support) have encountered a growing number of requests on setup details for Cloud based email services to use with Maximo's email listener.  In doing some research for a existing PMR I came across a great document that was written by one of our developers.  I have taken the liberty to attach the document link below for your review.  As always these suggestions are broad based and may not cover your exact setup.  If you have... [More]

Did you read that title correctly? That's correct, you did. We do have a process you can follow to allow your EAR to deploy within 6 minute. Please note: This should only be done for testing purposes if there is a requirement to deploy EAR several times a day. If your business does not have this need,  then this process is not recommended and this is not supported when applying to production.   There is a way where the deployment can be reduced to around 5 to 6 minutes, but there are a few configurations and responsibilities that... [More]

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  Welcome to the EAM Corner!!!! My name is Ghazala and I work in level 2 support for IBM on the EAM product. This blog series will all be helpful tips, tricks and how-to's on Maximo EAM . Be sure to follow me on DeveloperWorks  --------->   Click here to follow me on DeveloperWorks!   Recently I've been working with a customer, who encountered an issue with a User not being able to cancel a Contract Revision which is on PNDREV Status and not been approved yet. If... [More]

IBM Maximo Enterprise Adapter 7.6 for Oracle Applications has several scenarios of trade data that contain a great number of information.   If you have questions about what information can be sent by the out of box solution check this document: http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLKYL_7.6.0/com.ibm.meaora.doc_7.6.0/pdf_meaora_map.pdf   But what if you want to work with some information that is not sent by the Adapter? How to add new fields on the Adapter? On this example I will show you how to add a new field of Maximo and... [More]

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Sometimes customers want to change the way messaging engine connections to their datastores behave. The following tuning parameters are useful for this purpose. The first 4 of these tuning parameters must be added to the sib.properties file. Create the file (if it does not already exist) at the following location in the profile of each node: <profile_root>/properties/sib.properties THERE ARE 4 TUNING PARAMETERS: 1) sib.msgstore.jdbcFailoverOnDBConnectionLoss   This setting simply causes us to request that the High Availability... [More]

If you have tried to install Maximo 7.6 on a Linux box and the installation failed with an error " CTGIN8247E : Required Hostname : System hostname is not fully qualified " , probably your server do not have a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN). Some Linux machines do not have a proper configured Domain Name System (DNS), in most cases where the server is only a test machine. Maximo prerequisite checker requires an FQDN to pass the host validation. The best way to get it fix is to setup your machine with a proper hostname and... [More]

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When creating a communication from work order module or any other application, communication logs and email that was triggered are fine, but you may be noticing some rich text data when the record gets saved to the database (Commlog table). You may also be noticing unwanted tags in the data in reports.   The Rich Text tags can be stripped from the field using an Object Launch point AutoScript.   1. Go to Automation Scripts app 2. Click Select Action and create a new Object Launch Point 3. The Object is COMMLOG 4. The events should be... [More]

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