Locking records functionality (Edit Mode) introduced in Maximo 7.6 causes some behavior that could pass as "issues" when browser's session is terminated, just to demo or "simulate" browser's or workstation's crash.   Consider this step-by-step : 1. Enable Edit Mode for SR application, for example. 2. Go to Service Requests application and create SR ticket. 3. Clear cookies in your browser. 4. Re-login and enter the same SR you created in step 2. 5. Edit icon is disabled and there is no way to edit SR.   When you try... [More]

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Even though in the out-of-the-box configuration, the LONGDESCRIPTION table and its LDTEXT field are audit enabled, it does not mean all objects’ Long Description fields are audit enabled.  For audit records to be generated for a specific object’s Long Description field, you need to set the object  as well as its      DESCRIPTION_LONGDESCRIPTION field to audit-enabled.    For example, if you'd like to audit the ASSET table's Long Description field, these steps need to be... [More]

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Which tables can we query to find out the difference between the access rights between 2 security groups because it's very long to verify them manually on the screen ?   Well, it's a good questions, but basically there is a technique that can be used, which is to compare data from some tables as below :   The easiest way to view the basic permission information on a SELECT query by groups would be this :   SELECT GROUPNAME, APP, OPTIONNAME, CONDITIONNUM FROM APPLICATIONAUTH ORDER BY GROUPNAME;   If you would to see more complex info... [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!     Have you ever tried to associate an asset to two contracts and the system displays the error: BMXAA0773E - This asset is already present in revision 0 of contract? If you have then this blog will show... [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!   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]

Abstract This article aims at presenting an overview of the EAM and ERP systems consolidation and providing a usage example of IBM Maximo and SAP tools. Introduction The consolidation of IT systems provides advantages that consequently enhance business processes. Effective consolidation programs always provide significant benefits for the company, since they represent a large number of advantages, which we will see later in this article. However, a consolidation program is not usually simple to use and it can offer risks in the same... [More]

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When using E-Signature (or eSig, e-Sig) in a workflow process it does not seem to work. However, if you change the status of SR record from front end, for example , everything is getting populated in the LOGINTRACKING table.   This is actually a known limitation of Workflow where workflow has control of the record and E-Signature is not being called. (This functionality is not currently present in Maximo)   If you require to track data, there is the WFTRANSACTION table you can reference either in the database or from the Select Action -... [More]

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Providing logging up front is MustGather for troubleshooting in general and this entry provides the MustGather for troubleshooting email communications in particular. This includes whether the problem is server communication, outgoing, incoming, formatted, non-formatted, or template related.  Websphere is assumed otherwise consult your application server's documentation. 1) Be generous with application server log rotation:   In the Websphere administrative console this can be adjusted under Logging and Tracing  >  Server Name > JVM Logs  ... [More]

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When changing the status of the Work Order from the change status dialog you might be asking yourself why the notification is not working. The SMTP properties are properly set and the e-mail address looks good in the Notification E-mail field. So, what is wrong?   The notification will only be sent if the 'Change work order status in back ground ' checkbox is checked. Now the notification will be sent to the e-mail as expected noting that the status has been changed.

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It is rare, but when it does happen and the users start receiving duplicate report output sent via email in their inbox, Maximo administrators will be hit with the questions of "how do I troubleshoot this issue?", or "why is this happening?" There could be several reasons as to why users are receiving duplicate emails (report output), whereas they only expect to receive one.   How can this type of scenario be addressed? There are several things to look at:   1)In System Properties application, check to see if... [More]

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On IE11 when you download a doclink you are offered an option to either save it or open it. Is this option available on Google Chrome? The answer is NO . Chrome behaves differently compared to IE11, by default it saves most of the downloaded files and there is no option to open or save. This is how chrome is created and we can't change it. Some files are opened by Chrome automatically due to plugins embedded in it, an example of which are PDF files. You can either have chrome download and save the files all the time or you can have it... [More]

Downloading apps using IBM app center in mobile device / emulator Prerequisites : IBM app center is already downloaded and installed. Steps    Step 1 : Open IBM app Center. Setting tab opens. Enter Username, Password, Server address and click Connect.                                                Step 2 : When connected, My Mobile tab appears listing all the Installed apps.   ... [More]

Download the Digital Certificate: Open HTTPS url:  https://services.arcgisonline.com/arcgis/rest/services/World_Street_Map/MapServer Download/Export Certificate Internet Explorer: ~   https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc730988(v=ws.11).aspx Chome: ~   https://support.google.com/gsa/answer/6345106?hl=en Firefox: In the upper right of your Firefox browser click at hamburger :    Click  Options In the left pain click  Advanced . Under Advanced click  Certificates  >  View Certificates . In the Certificate Manager click the ... [More]

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You're working with Maximo and may have observed that the Download functionality and behavior for Internet Explorer has changed. Previously, clicking download gave users the option of opening the file or saving it. When choosing Open, the spreadsheet file opened directly, displaying the data on the List tab.   Now, when clicking Open, the spreadsheet file appears to open, but no data is displayed.   Then you wonder : Is there a security or other setting in Internet Explorer that is preventing the spreadsheet data from displaying?   The... [More]

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Maximo controls the access and privileges by security groups , where each security group has associated users that will be affected by changes in the security groups privileges. Then, on a beautiful day you are faced to a challenge. You get to know that one specific user is special and needs very close attention in regards to access to domain values, such as the list of Work Order Status. You have a way to determine that the whole security group that the user belongs to, will have limited access to specific status values but you still have a... [More]

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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 are now... [More]

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You might want to or not want to use a characters such as pictogram/emoji and wonder if it's supported with maximo. So here is the answer for you on how characters with maximo supported.   Currently this is not supported and characters greater than $FFFF is filtered out. Java uses UTF-16 which handles unicode greater than $FFFF by escaping these into two characters. Due to the copmplexity of handling escaped UTF-16 code we currently filter out these characters.

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Yes, Maximo application contains numerous out-of-the-box (OOB) reports that are imported automatically, once Maximo.ear file is deployed.. A couple of examples of such reports are: 1)In Work Order Tracking application - launch a Work Order List report to run immediately, you will see that it displays Work Order/s that appear to be underlined (or are URLs):   The underlined Work Orders can be clicked on to invoke the Work Order Details report:   2)in Job Plans application - launch a Job Plan List report to run immediately, you will see... [More]

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In business, you might want achieve this use case: In an email account, set several folders and let Maximo Email Listener process the email from one of folders and create SRs. For example, in maximoadmin@gmail.com account, we have several folders: - Maximo - Google - Oracle We only wants the email from Maximo folder to be processed. Is it achievable?   Let us see the common configurations in E-mail Listener in Maximo as below:     Maximo provides an attribute called "E-mail Folder". While if we are using pop3 as... [More]

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  Do you assets talk to you? Are you even listening? What could you do better if you knew what they were saying? Discussions with the various levels of government, private sector and others always reveals a complex matrix of systems that are unique to a particular department/division/branch/line of business that are not shared with any other groups. So the point is many times there are systems in place that perform monitoring and reporting about the current health of the asset, however combining the data from those systems is complex, difficult... [More]

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Some users would like to see the Item image when using the Inventory application.     Is it possible? How do I do that? It would save some time because I don't need to go to Item Master app in order to see the image and then go back to Inventory. So, below are the steps to show the Item Image from the Item Master application to the Inventory application. 1. Go to 'Application Designer' and access the INVENTOR app 2. Click Inventory tab 3. Then click on the 'Control Palette' button on the taskbar 4. Click on the 'Record... [More]

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In life, sometimes we just have to get rid of something, a refresh just won't do. You ask them to stop leaving that shoe in that one place that is always in the way, do they, no. You freshen up, but they come back and leave the shoe in that same place once again. The answer, discard the shoe and then refresh, now there is no shoe to get in the way. Let's apply the same thinking to scheduler and the two options, refresh and discard and refresh.    I was working with a customer on an issue they were having in the scheduler, they... [More]

Are you trying to disable the richtext editor for Maximo 7.6 but you notice that the control-registry.xml file  is different from the instructions on the technote below: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21655937 The concept is basically the same.  You need to comment out the components containing the richtexteditor, the richtextviewer, and the... [More]

Some of you using BIRT reports in Maximo might have changed the width of the margin in your reports in order to accommodate some data such as tables with many columns. You might have simply used the Print icon once you have run your BIRT report with a customised margin width and not noticed that the report size reverts to the default size when the report is printed via the Direct Print icon on the toolbar instead. Report printouts will have the default margin when printed with Direct Print, thus ignoring the customization done in the rptdesign... [More]

Maximo SysAdm Times Welcome to the Sysadm Times !!!!!!   LABTRANS.STARTDATE is non-persistent in Maximo 7.6   LABTRANS.STARTDATE field is not persistent in 7.6.0.1. Also the java class associated to this field is different, it's changed to psdi.app.labor.virtual.FldLabTransStartDateNP however in 7.5 it was psdi.app.labor.FldLabTransStartDate.   In 7.6.x　 Go to Database Configuration --> LABTRANS -->STARTDATE is non-persistent and the java class associated to this field is psdi.app.labor.virtual.FldLabTransStartDateNP　... [More]

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  The instructions for enabling security created by my colleague included in the blog entry link below describe the steps necessary to enable application server security including modifications to web.xml files for the associated war modules, updates to system properties,  rebuild/redeployment of the maximo.ear, enabling global security within the WebSphere Administrative Console, and restarting the application servers.   ... [More]

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Hello Integration Framework team!   Starting in Maximo 7.5.0.5 the Maximo Integration Framework (MIF) ifixes were separated from the Maximo or Tivoli Process Automation Engine (TPAE) ifixes. This was done to confuse you, right?  :) Actually, it was done to decouple the products so that ifixes could be released more quickly, and shared between different products which use the MIF code, like REST and OSLC.  So a MIF ifix can be used with the Mobile product as well as with Asset Management. Since the MIF ifixes are so much smaller... [More]

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Some customers have successfully configured Maximo Anywhere to automatically sign on without prompting the end user for credentials.  This capability requires that your iOS, Windows, or Android device is configured to understand the user identity.  Your user identification server must also support a local API on the device that can be called to return the user identity information to the Maximo Anywhere application.  Usually customers also have an authenticating proxy server that understands this global user identity configured... [More]

The tree control found in IBM Asset Configuration Manager (ACM) used to display hierarchical data has changed as of version 7.5. The new control is far less flexible than it used to be. Why? Please allow me to share some lessons learned with fellow developers and application designers.  For many years (I fell in love with programming in 1979), the buzzwords "flexible" and "reusable" been heavily emphasized when it comes to program code and the development of components such as the ACM tree control. The version created... [More]