In some cases, when the asset is already out of service or down for repairs. When the asset is already down, you may have the opportunity to perform due maintenance, soon to be due maintenance or deferred work. Operational inefficiencies often occur when an asset just recently returned to service, must be taken back out of service for more maintenance. Maximo for Transportation’s Maintenance Alert feature helps to identify these opportunities to perform as much work as possible while you have the asset down. This feature can... [More]

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        Summary When is it best to apply a Customer Agreement to a Work Order using Maximo for Service Providers?   Looking at the lifecycle of Work Orders when is it optimal to benefit from a Customer Agreement.   Detailed Description The best time is when the WO is created and all the information required is available and completed, the customer agreement should be applied then. Applying a Customer Agreement to a CLOSED work order fails with error: BMXAA0031E - The WORKORDER object is read only. Verify the... [More]

When searching for an item by description, click on the item to edit it, change the description by adding some text at the end and save. Go back to the list of items you searched for and the edited item will be in italics. Hit refresh and the item disappears.   It will not let you search by description for that item. You can search for it by number and it will be found. Eventually, if you exit the application and go back in, you can search for it by description again, but not immediately.   This is the expected behavior and it happens because... [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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Maximo® for Service Providers 7.6.3 introduces new features that enhance estimates and customer billing. Apply customer agreements to work orders In the Work Order Tracking application, you can now apply customer agreements and price schedules to one or more work orders or child work orders simultaneously. This enhancement enables you to calculate the price of transactions and apply pricing rules to labor, materials, tools, and services transactions that are on work orders. Learn more about customer agreements . Enhancements to sales orders... [More]

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What's in a Name? This simple question resonates with English speakers as part of a famous dialog in William Shakespeare's well-known play, Romeo and Juliette.  This question, immortalized by The Bard in the sixteenth century, remains powerful to the present day. In its simplicity, the question suggests the distinction between what we label something, and what it actually is. The question also serves as a way to introduce an important development in the way Maximo Nuclear is bringing value to customers outside the realm of commercial nuclear... [More]

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Firstly, let me introduce myself - my name is Sina Whiston and I am the Smarter Infrastructure L2 (Level 2) Support Manager in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). Today I want to talk (or rather write) about product maintenance and hotfixes... Let's get the terminology out of the way: Fix Pack: refers to regular IBM Fix Pack releases, such as the newly released Maximo 7.5.0.5 Fix Pack IFIX: Interim Fix - a cumulative hotfix pack - a bundling of various hotfixes in one pack, such as Maximo 7.5.0.4 Interim Fix 005 (7.5.0.4-TIV-MBS-IFIX005)... [More]

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Please use the following example   http://IPadress:port/maxrest/rest/mbo/po/64?&_lid=maxadmin&_lpwd=maxadmin&_urs=1 The first key  element is &_urs=1 ,the second is the only MBO should   be used and the third the UID  should be included in a path   /mbo/po/64

You can find an index of my blogs here :   ht tp:/ /ibm .biz /Bdi uf F Watson IoT Accelerated Value Program                                     Welcome to my first blog. I'm Benoit Cotnoir and I'm part of Watson IoT Accelerated Value Program (AVP) team and I work as Accelerated Value Leader (AVL) for Maximo / Tririga. In this first blog I want to talk about our service and what AVP can do to help.   Clients delay or postpone their upgrades for a variety of reasons including skills gaps, the risk factor, or simply finding the time to... [More]

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When work Work Groups was added to Work Order Tracking they incorporated the same logic in finding the lead as is used in work flow assignments.   Here is the logic that is used in determining the Lead field   1. Starting with Sequence #1, find Person with appropriate Calendar and Shift - exclude Persons a. with a  UseForSite value that is not NULL and is unequal to the Site associated with the Object that initiated the Work Flow                                                                                                                    ... [More]

The autonumber PONUM exists at both the system level and organization level in Maximo system.   Do you believe there is some explanation of why it exists at both?   The Autonumbering is controlled by the Autonumber Setup within the Organizations application.  Autonumbering can be setup at system, org, and/or site levels in any combination desired. A PO is a SITE Level record and when you create a new PO, Maximo takes in consideration the User Default Insert Site to fill the PO SiteID and OrgID.   This way if a PO Header is specified in the ORG1... [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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When you download Maximo 7.6.1 from Passport Advantage, you need to extract and combine all of the decompressed files into a single directory.   Windows Packages: IBM Maximo Asset Management V7.6.1 Win 64 Multilingual (CNU8XML ) - 1,980 MB IBM Maximo Middleware Installer, DB2 11.1 Windows Server X86-64 Multilingual (CNU97ML ) - 1,298 MB IBM Maximo Middleware Installer, WebSphere Application Server 9.0 (1 of 2) Windows Server X86-64 Multilingual (CNU9CML ) - 2,396 MB IBM Maximo Middleware Installer, WebSphere Application Server 9.0 (2 of 2)... [More]

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We've had a few calls about this one, so I thought a quick post here would be helpful. When you download Maximo 7.6 from Passport Advantage, you need to extract and combine all of the decompressed files into a single directory. On Windows 7 or Server 2012, it will look something like this: 12/12/2014  11:36 AM    <DIR>          . 12/12/2014  11:36 AM    <DIR>          .. 11/26/2014  11:15 AM               995 autorun.inf 12/12/2014  11:35 AM    <DIR>          CleanupScripts 10/24/2014  03:46 PM    <DIR>         ... [More]

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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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What do an airline, a national train operator, and a global engine manufacture have in common?  They probably have any number of things in common, but as this is a Maximo blog I will focus on the fact that they are all using Maximo Asset Configuration Manager (ACM) at the core of their business.   You may be asking ‘why’ and ‘what does ACM actually do’?   And apart from using ACM, what else do these businesses have in common? Complex assets High value assets Safety Critical operating environments Highly regulated by... [More]

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Do you need a quick way to determine what customizations you’ve made to your Maximo Asset Management 7.5 installation?  If so, check out the Customization Detection tool. The tool currently works on Maximo Asset Management Version 7.5.0.0 and higher. The tool provides information about customizations for business objects, field classes, and services that were customized (extended/added) for the out-of-the-box system. It does not provide information about UI bean classes or other configuration changes. For information about the tool... [More]

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As L2 Support Manager for Maximo (and TRIRIGA and IBM MessageSight) I frequently get asked by clients and fellow IBMers "What can I do to help get my / my customers PMR (Problem Management Record) addressed and resolved as soon as possible"? Nobody wants to wait for a long time for an answer or solution and our teams are working diligently to resolve any issue as soon as possible. So - is there anything you can do to help? Absolutely! Here are a few suggestions on information to provide / things to do that can help to reduce time to... [More]

  My previous blog outlines the steps briefly of how to set up a WebLogic environment for use with Maximo 7.x.    https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/a9ba1efe-b731-4317-9724-a181d6155e3a/entry/setting_up_maximo_7_x_in_a_weblogic_v9_cluster_using_jms_queues_for_integration?lang=en   However, I noticed I was missing some information related to the continuous error queue, so that is included here as a separate entry to make it simpler to follow.   What are the steps to configure the cqinerr exception... [More]

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When directly putting Maximo Integration Framework JMS messages into an inbound queue, the message header format must contain the custom properties described below to ensure that Maximo can processes these messages.  This is accomplished by constructing an RFH2 header that contains the required custom properties and their values, corresponding to the properties defined with the Maximo external system.   The message properties contain the following properties from the JMS provider and the integration framework, which are set to the... [More]

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After posting my last blog ' What you always wanted to know about hotfixes... ', our L3 (Level 3) manager sent me some really excellent and detailed information about the definition and attributes of Fixpacks, Interim Fixes and Limited Availability fixes. I want to share this information with you here:   FIXPACK Fixpacks deliver product defect fixes that have undergone a full development release cycle and the most extensive QA testing of all maintenance releases.  The fixes delivered are for... [More]

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Have you experienced that nodeagent failed to start ? There may be  many reasons to cause this issue.    Let me share one case. Please check  startServer.log located in  C:\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\profiles\ctgAppSrv01\logs\nodeagent. Error is shown like below : 9/15/15 22:37:13:434 EST] 00000001 WsServerLaunc E   ADMU3002E: Exception attempting to process server nodeagent [9/15/15 22:37:13:434 EST] 00000001 WsServerLaunc E   ADMU3007E: Exception java.lang.NullPointerException   ... [More]

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Finishing up from the last blog post , it's time to create Windows services. Otherwise you will always have to have a session logged into the Windows server to start the three Maximo-related services (Dmgr, nodeagent, MXServer). You can follow the instructions in the installation guides found here  to create Windows services manually using WASService.exe, or you can use the nifty WASServiceHelper interactive command-line interface tool now included with WebSphere 8. (With WAS 6 and 7, it was a downloadable product called WASServiceCmd.exe.)... [More]

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Maximo 7.6.0.8 introduces new Work Centers to manage Inspections. It leverages the latest Maximo user interface that enhances the user experience and makes the management and process of Inspections easy and intuitive to use. Inspections generally use forms (templates) that vary by industry, client and asset type. The form is the guide for inspectors to record current asset or location conditions in the field typically using a mobile device. Join us in this webinar to learn more about Maximo Work Centers and how Inspections can help you improve... [More]

In Maximo 6.x, you could use the following URL in a browser to list available web services:     http://hostname:port/meaweb/services   A list of deployed web services would be presented in your browser, however with the release of Maximo v7.x, new web service features were introduced.  For example, you can create web services based on enterprise services, object structures, business objects, and you can create web services that use inbound JMS queues.   In Maximo 7.6.x you can confirm that your servlets are running using the following URLs:  ... [More]

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Question: Why we are not able to access web service created in Maximo 7.5 after upgraded to Maximo to 7.6.0.3?   Investigate the issue: When using soapUI to test the web service, got the error: WSWS7147E: The system could not locate the endpoint for /services.   Compared the testing import files used in the Maximo 7.5 and 7.6, they are not changed Checked the log files. found the below error message in the systemout.log file: SRVE0014E: Uncaught service() exception root cause jaxws: java.io.FileNotFoundException: WSWS7147E: The system... [More]

Hello everyone! I want to share something that I have learned regarding the Maximo Calibration 7.5 Industry Solution with you. If you are wondering if your Maximo Calibration 7.5 was properly installed or where your Calibration applications/modules in Maximo 7.5 environment, then Google search led you to the right place (or blog)!   Maximo Calibation 7.5 is already included in the base code for Maximo so when you do the install of the said industry solution, you are actually just activating the license so that you can use it.   There... [More]

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As an introductory theme, the IBM Maximo for Transportation provides asset management best practices to improve the productivity of all types of transportation assets such as trucks fleets, cars, buses, locomotives, rail cars, aircrafts and others. IBM Maximo for ACM (Maximo Asset Configuration Manager) provides real-time calculation of asset’s configuration and the life of each component of the asset as well as performing system and component analysis and reporting. The latest versions of both products, Transportation and ACM 7.5.1,... [More]

Changes in the Maximo "View Manage Queries" functionality will be explained.  This article highlights the differences in the functionality.  There  are three new security sigoptions that have been added.  These are not automatically granted.  The Maximo administrator will need to explicitly enable sigoptions for users that require permission to view or edit queries from the View Manage Queries pull down under Save Query on the list tab. The first two sigoptions apply to all applications that offer this functionality.   These allow... [More]

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