Sometimes, when we have a big amount of External Systems and Enterprise Services configured, we get can end up lost whenever troubleshooting is required to be done with some of them. Instead of opening each and every one of the Enterprise Services to see what MBO is being used, you can query your database to get that info more easily. Example: For some unknown reason, a PO is being altered by the MXINTADM user, which is the user that executes the integration actions inside Maximo. You might want to activate the Message Tracking feature for the... [More]

My name is Edgar Mengelberg and I have been working with the Maximo and TPAE product suite in various Support roles for over 15 years.   Maximo Asset Configuration Manager (ACM) was originally developed to be used in the Aviation industry. This was because the aviation industry deals with complex components that have many sub parts and strict regulations. This leads to maintenance processes that need to be carefully planned and executed. While Maximo Base Services or TPAE can handle these tasks, ACM has specific functionalities that make... [More]

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Recently a client contact presented an issue regarding running above report which was timing out (with stuck threads listed in logs) as it was very large. This was later revealed to be due to never running the report in all the years the client has had Maximo installed. The business partner working on behalf of the client, devised a method to avoid time out's by using a where clause and also to run the report in chunks rather than the whole period.... [More]

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This document describes on how to setup Maximo Cognos integration.   For the detailed instruction please refer to the following document. http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21692347     <Index>  0. Prerequisites  1. Create Unique Database User for use with MXCSP  2. Configure mxcognosdatasources.properties file for MXCSP  3. Copy CSP and Database Jar Files from Maximo to Cognos  4. Create Namespace in Cognos Configuration  5. Configure Maximo System Properties for Cognos  6.... [More]

Maximo SysAdm Times Welcome to the Sysadm Times !!!!!!   Introduction: There is a drop down menu "All Records" on the side navigation toolbar in Maximo and sometimes users ending up clicking on this option which could impact performance seriously if there are millions of records to be returned. 'All Records' query option is hardcoded in the menu.java to always be displayed. You are unable to disable it without a framework code change . Making a code change to achieve this would be an unsupported customization of platform... [More]

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Continuing from Deploying the RMI registry in a Maximo Clustered Environment, part 1 ... Let's now look at how to prepare the RMI registry file, rmireg.war to build and deploy this to your clustered environment. . 1. Prepare and Build the RMI Registry file The tool used to build the rmireg.war file is <maximo_home>/deployment/buildrmiregwar.cmd. This tool uses the settings in the <maximo_home>/applications/maximo/properties/ maximo.properties file to build a war (Web... [More]

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Hello Everyone, I'm happy to announce that on October 27th 2016, IBM released Maximo Spatial Asset Management feature pack 7.6.0.1! Within this new feature pack, comes a lot of new features! Some of these features include: 1) Display Maximo Linear Asset Manager layers on a map    -  You can configure layers to display linear features on a map when you select a Spatial Map as a provider 2) Select Maximo records on a map    -  You can associate records with a service request or work order by selecting... [More]

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IBM Maximo and Control Desk products have classifications in order to categorize records such as items, assets, locations, work orders, tickets etc. Classifications are not only useful for easily identifying, restricting or filtering records, they also bring in specifications functionality. Specification attributes are extra fields defined for a classification used with one or more Maximo objects. In spite of adding new fields to main database tables, related specification records are added to the specification tables only for the classified... [More]

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You may have noticed that if you manually enter an incorrect value for a field that has a lookup then you will get an error message that tells you that the value is not valid.  In addition it has a link labelled "More Information" following the message.  For example if you entered an incorrect value in the work type field in Work Order Tracking you will see a message like this: The "More Information" tries to link to a help topic but often there is no matching topic so it returns a blank page or "unable to... [More]

  It was a dark and stormy night. Opps!  Wrong story! Let’s try again. There is a large manufacturing organization, who produces and assembles a wide range of plastic injection-molded parts in its eight different facilities located around the world.   Continued slips in production schedules, and perceived low asset utilization, has caused the organization’s management team to call for investigations in plant performance.    A task team is quickly assembled to evaluate and identify potential contributors to... [More]

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Previously I used a Raspberry PI to enter data into Maximo, Logging data in Maximo with a Raspberry PI using Node-Red. However sometimes we do not care about the history of data but only want to view a current value, for example the temperature, humidity and the barometric pressure in a room. This blog will show you how to view data from a JSON Resource. An IOT device such as a Raspberry Pi or Beagle Bone Black can be used as a primitive REST server, in this case the server returns a basic JSON... [More]

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      MAXIMO IoT Newsletter: October Edition - Your Monthly updates - All in one place   The IoT newsletter will be published monthly, this will be the perfect way to share with you our high value content, recent updates and any information you might have missed. The main objective of this Newsletter is to give you a monthly peek with what's happening in the world of Maximo, value added contents such as videos, blogs, IFIX releases etc. So please have a read and make sure you bookmark this link for ongoing... [More]

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I am going to show you how you can write a very simple Automation Script to update the description when work order priority is changed. 1.Go to Automation Script 2. Create an Attribute Launch Point 3. Enter the Launch Point, Select Object WORKORDER, attribute WOPRIORITY, and click next 4.Enter the Script you can enter your own, Script Language jython 5. Click new row to enter Variables Enter your variable name, variable Type INOUT, Binding Type ATTRIBUTE, Launch Point Attribute WOPRIORITY and click next 6. Enter the Source Code and Create... [More]

Is it possible to make a YORN field required ? The required input mode works when the field is null. Reason why YORN field doesn't work because the YORN field is not a null value. If the field is not checked, the value in the DB is "N". So what is the alternate way that you can force the user to enter data when required.   Go to database configuration create an ALN attribute. For an Example WORKORDER - MYCUSTOM                                ... [More]