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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