I’m infatuated…I’m obsessing… I’m fascinated with Maximo 7.6.1 and Cognos Analytics.   And you can be too.   Starting with Maximo 7.6.1, every Maximo client is entitled to Cognos Analytics .       Fabulous new features included web-based data modules, dashboards, active reports, smart searching, suggested visualizations and so much more are available to you.   Join me in this infatuation, obsession, fascination with Maximo and Cognos Analytics. Watch the new 13 part... [More]

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   I’m a Junior Ranger.   I took on the challenge to identify insects, sketch wildflowers and go on a scavenger hunt for cacti and rock art at Joshua Tree National Park.   And after a day full of hiking, exploring and learning – I have a new badge that I’m incredibly proud of. Recently, we announced a new Maximo Anywhere Skilled Badge Customization Course on IoT Academy.    This course targets technical developers and implementers – detailing the Anywhere topology, and then having the student perform a series of basic and advanced customization... [More]

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    Its super sized.   With over 200 applications, 1400 database objects, 22000 database attributes, 6000 maxrelationships, 16000 synonym domains, 300 object structures, 70 cron tasks, 120 communication templates, 850 system properties, and numerous workflows, escalations, automation scripts and so much more – Maximo is massive.   And that’s only the base product.   Add in industry solutions, add-on products, business partner solutions – and its volume and complexity grows exponentially.   And... [More]

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 Choices.   Every aspect of our lives is packed with them.    Firefox, Chrome or IE?   Small, Medium, Large or Jumbo?   Mouse or touchpad?   Blueberry pie – with or without ice cream?     Shoes, Sneakers or flip flops?   To tweet or not to tweet?    Keeping with that trend, we are now enabling you additional choices for your development of V7 reports with the delivery of Portrait Report Templates.  Report Templates are one of a few different ways your report developers can create custom reports in the Version 7 Report Design Tool.... [More]

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Clear.  Cold.  Refreshing.  Three words which could describe anything from a glass of water, a plunge in the Arctic Ocean, rice noodles, a class mint Mojito, or a run thru a sprinkler on a hot July Day.  Maybe another image comes to your mind...and you may quickly see where I'm going with this.  Text descriptions can often lead much to the imagination . Visual ambiguities however, can lead to serious issues in our work environments, as everyone must have the same, consistent understanding of assets, items, or work orders.  A solid way to enable... [More]

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Terry Francona, manager of the Boston Red Sox who led them to two World Series titles in 2004 and 2007...out after experiencing one of the worst team collapses in Sports History.  Rory McIlroy, 22 year old golf professional and winner of 2011 US Open..in.    Whoopie Pies In (OMG..Aren't they the greatest!)   ...Cupcakes Out.   Blue In...Grey Out.   Shipment Details In...Purchase Requisition List Out.    Like changes in sports, food or colors, the reports that are delivered from one Maximo release to another also changes.  Delivered reports... [More]

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During last week’s reporting web conference ,   one question that was asked was how you could configure your favorite reports to display directly on the Start Center.    These might be reports you frequently access, or that you want your users to focus on as they contain critical information.    One way you can do this is by using the Report List Portlet.   Within this portlet, you can select any number and types of reports to display on the Start Center, including detail, Ad Hoc, and reports enabled thru... [More]

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Maximo for Service Providers is an add-on product for Maximo and SmartCloud Control Desk that helps meets the needs of clients who manage assets and services for customers, as a business, or clients who manage assets and services within an enterprise and bills internally for those services.  It includes a suite of applications that manage customer agreements, response plans, service delivery, supplier contracts and customer billing.     A simple but powerful capability which is available in Maximo for Service Providers is the ability to bill... [More]

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The mxe.db.rowcount property is an optional system property in Maximo for SQL Server databases.  This property is a setting on the jdbc driver to limit the number of rows affected by a transact-sql statement. The property was added to help prevent row locking that some customers encountered in releases prior to 7.1. Use the mxe.db.rowcount property with caution because users may not be aware of the e ffects of this setting. The setting of rowcount causes most transact-sql statements to stop processing when the number of affected rows is... [More]

Check out the files section of the Asset Management group and you'll find something new! The Best Practices for System Performance 7x white paper has been updated to version 1.4.   Starting with this version, you'll find the performance best practices white paper here in Service Management Connect (SMC) for easier access and to take advantage of all the features available when using SMC Files. However, never fear, the product wikis will continue to link to the white paper should you prefer to get it there. You'll also find links to the white... [More]

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The Best Practices for System Performance 7x white paper has been updated to version 1.5. This is a minor update to further clarify tuning settings for 32-bit environments. We value your feedback on this document, so please use the comment feature for this blog entry and let us know what you like and dislike about the performance best practices white paper. What has helped you the most when using the document? Are there topics we should add or expand on? Please let us know how we can improve the white paper!

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You can extend the provided business logic of the Maximo Anywhere applications to satisfy your specific business processes. However, you shouldn't modify our javascript files directly because we might not preserve these changes during upgrades, and you do not want to manually merge your code changes every time the product upgrades our javascript files. This document details an extension approach using Javascript mixins that modifies Javascript business logic in a way that is preserved across upgrades.

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The si.device.keepDisplayAlive property is intended to keep the device screen on while performing long download operations.                     It was introduced in Anywhere 7.6.1 version as we can see in "What's  New"... [More]

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As the product designer and architect for Maximo Everyplace , I want to pass along the latest product information and answer the common questions that I hear. In case you’re not familiar with Everyplace, it provides the ability to use Maximo on an iPhone, iPad, iPod touch or Android device. To use it, you need to be on version 7 of Maximo, and at fixpack 7.1.1.7 or higher. Many people assume that, because there are phone apps that allow them to scan barcodes with their phone's camera, that they'll be able to use this same functionality... [More]

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In Maximo development, we have a cursory knowledge of email systems and we don't support configuring or troubleshooting on the other side of the JavaMail API. However, occasionally we're asked about platform specific connectivity and, occasionally, credential problems, in particular:    "javax.mail.AuthenticationFailedException Logon failure unknown user name or bad password."   We have yet to encounter a case other than this meaning exactly what is says.  It's a bad username/password error returned... [More]

Maximo and Transportation calculates Average Units Per Day in different ways.   While Maximo uses this formula: (AssetMeter.LifeToDate - First MeterReading.Reading) / (Elapsed Time From (First MeterReading.ReadingDate) To (MeterReading.LastReadingDate))   Transportation uses the following: (AssetMeter.LifeToDate – Initial Life to Date) / (Elapsed Time From (First MeterReading.ReadingDate) To (MeterReading.LastReadingDate))   If the "Use Transportation Meters?" check-box is selected, system uses the Transportation formula. Otherwise,... [More]

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Email! That word triggers both positive and negative reactions as this year’s holiday season gets underway. On the one hand, we want to be sure we receive those emails with special offers for holiday shopping. On the other, we are annoyed when we get spammed. We wonder about the thousands of emails routed daily through automated email systems. Automated email systems supporting a business’ IT operations are a different story altogether. Emails may be the quickest and cheapest mechanism for users to alert IT teams of issues. Emails are... [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]

The default behavior of Workflow is to ignore Security Group privileges for change status and other options.   I've always liked that and, over the years, we have fixed more than a few bugs when it turned out that behavior was not being followed by Maximo.   But it turns out not everyone thinks it should be that way.   I see the point, that the rest of Maximo follows your Security Group privileges so why not Workflow?      The theory we have followed for all the years that Workflow has  been around is... [More]

In the last Blog I talked about the automation script for Object Structure. Follow the link: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/a9ba1efe-b731-4317-9724-a181d6155e3a/entry/Automation_Script_for_Maximo_Integration_Framework_MIF?lang=en   Now I will show an example and explain all details of an automation script using Enterprise Service.   Go to System Configuration =>  Platform Configuration => Automation Scripts. Click on Select Action=> Create=>Script for Integration. The pop up below will appear for... [More]

Automation Script for Maximo Integration Framework (MIF) is introduced in 7.6 and is a good practice to create and manipulate data. You have the same functionality as the Java Class. But in this case you are not going to lose your class if you upgrade Maximo. Let’s take a look at a simple example. Creating an Automation Script for an inbound Object Structure Go to System Configuration =>  Platform Configuration => Automation Scripts. Click on Select Action => Create => Script for Integration. You have a couple options... [More]

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Do you have a requirement to make the memo field required when status is gonna be changed to specific status? Actually, your requirment may not be done using conditional UI setting. You may need to use automization script or java code in order to achieve your requirement.   You can reference below automation script example.  The requirment :  make the memo field required when status is gonna be changed to 'Approved'  in the Change Status Dialog. - Go to the Automation Scripts  - Select Action /... [More]

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You may want to create a Work Order(WO) automatically when saving a SR record if a condition for a field is satisfied. Please reference below automation script example.   The case:  If  WOREQUIRED is true when saving a SR record whose assetnum is 11230 ,  create a WO from that SR. Please follow the steps. 1. Go to the Database Configuration - Open TICKET object   - Create the attribute "WOREQUIRED" with  YORN type.  The default value is set as 0.  Apply DB Changes in Admin Mode. 2. Go to the... [More]

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This blog covers the work that the Maximo Asset Configuration Manager (ACM) team has been doing recently, in particular the last ACM release and the capability for electronic Flight Log Book (eFLB). This is not a user guide, but a brief insight into the approach and how we went about it, so even if you don’t use ACM it will (hopefully) be interesting.     The Requirement for Automating the FLB for ACM: The requirement to have an eFLB as part of Maximo ACM was driven by client demand to support the automation of... [More]

In this quick blog we'll discuss how to access a custom module from an automation script. Often in the script application we create long and complicated scripts which are embedded inside a multiline textbox. Maintaining the bulk of your scripts on your file system will allow code modularity as well as allow for maintenance and deployment via an scm system such as RTC or git.   On our system we will place a simple file called test.py under C:\myLibrary with the contents: # Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and... [More]

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Maximo® for Service Providers 7.5.3 introduced the feature to automate the billing of price schedules, which means no need of human interaction to create bill batches and copy transactions.  With this function you can choose the frequency of billing generation and group these b ill batches by order number, customer cost center, customer PO, or reporting user, expanding the possible ways to organize customer billings.   Take a look at these two new topics to learn how to use this function: Configuring Automated Billing... [More]

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Did you know that Auto-Locate hierarchy has been enhanced in Maximo Spatial 7.5. The text below describes the order and hierarchy of processing data in Maximo records that can possible generate a map position. The objective is simple. There is not always a direct link between the Maximo and GIS feature record. So rather than not display something in the map, try to find some information in the record that has a direct link to an object in the map or that can be geocoded using an address or GPS coordinates. This ultimately results in a better... [More]

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Over the last few years I've talk to a lot of Maximo users and implementers and one of the most FAQ often asked is, "How can we keep track of attribute changes?"  It's very clear that Maximo users value their data and want an ability to keep track of changes made to attributes they love the most.  By default there are many type of changes which are already tracked historically, like the history of an Asset moving from one location to another or the status changes of a Work Order but if a customer adds new attributes or wants to track... [More]

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When using RFID to audit assets at a location can be done using Maximo Mobile 7.5.1.  How can this be done? Can I see who did the audit and when? The first thing you need to do is associate the RFID Tag to the assets. This is done using the attribute MOBRFIDTAG attribute on the asset object.  1) Go To Application Designer 2) Open the Asset application 3) Add a new Text box to the screen 4) In the Text Box Properties add MOBRFIDTAG to the Attribute field                      ... [More]

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