Hello! Time for a non-IFIX post. A rare problem popped up. A customer was trying to install Maximo 7.6 to a new Windows Server 2012 R2. They launched the installer from a directory on the E: drive. They had expanded all of the Maximo 7.6 images into that directory.   When the Launchpad window came up, however, the options area was empty.   We checked DEP, Administrator rights, Firewall, anti-virus, everything. Nothing was out of place. We had a few cases when this happened with Maximo 7.5 on Windows Server 2008, and a technote for it... [More]

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Ever wonder how to remove a secondary or an additional language in Maximo? Today's your lucky day as I will walk you through on how you can do it in this blog entry.   First of all, there is no functionality of TDToolkit that will remove a secondary language. Therefore we will be doing this activity in the back-end, direct to your database.   We can start by viewing your available languages in your database. To view all your installed additional languages, run the following query against your database: select languagename,... [More]

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After spending about 45 minutes trying to figure out why my Scheduled Start & Finish Dates were not populating on the Gantt View, I figured it out. The out of the box Scheduled Start & Finish dates on the Gantt View tab, those fields are actually tied to the start and end of the Repair Facility Assignment not the Schedule Start and end dates from the work order.  To show the Scheduled Start & Finish Date, Maximo has to be configured in the scheduler application for those dates to be used. The link below will take you to a DCF... [More]

Hello All, Some of you may have wondered what determines if the data for a pie chart on a Start Center Result Set displays below or to the side of the graph? The list of data values will display on the side or bottom depending on the amount of room available.  This usually corresponds to setting the columns on your Start Center to being narrow or wide in your Start Center layout. If you are on the wide side of the Start Center then it will put the values along the side (Result Set on right side below), and if it is on the narrow side then... [More]

Hello All, in Maximo 7.6.0.3 a System Property called webclient.richtext.sanitize was added to address a cross-site scripting vulnerability . The property uses a filter that allows the rich text sanitizer to implement a security policy based on the sanitizePolicy.xml file that is stored in the properties folder. This filter helps make sure that users don't supply malicious code in the HTML they send for their profile, comments, etc., that get persisted on the server. When the property is enabled (set to 1, which is the default), the... [More]

You may have been assigned the task to change your messaging engine message store configuration so that it uses a data store instead of a file store.  There are several steps you need to follow in order to ensure the process goes smoothly.  There is a lot of documentation out there that talks about creating the data store, but what are the steps to replace your existing messaging engine configuration if you are already using one type of store and want to modify it?   You cannot directly modify the messaging engine configuration... [More]

FREE Maximo Education and Open Badges Note the very important word FREE . I'll say that again, nice and loud and in a pretty colour (I'm English so I'll spell things properly): FREE I had the pleasure of attending 2 weeks Maximo education in Austin, Texas way back in 2016. It was somewhat hotter than I am used to and people drive on the wrong side of the very wide roads for some strange reason. I listened carefully with the intention of bringing home some great technical and/or practical insight to share with my team back in the UK.... [More]

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I thought I would start off this year blogging about a product I work with quite a bit and that is Maximo Anywhere, a mobile solution for Maximo Asset Management,  which is currently at version 7.6.1. If you want more information on the product you can find it here .  The Windows applications that were introduced starting with Maximo Anywhere 7.5.2.1 are supported on both Windows 8.1 and 10 (as of Anywhere 7.6), but can also be built from both those as well as Windows 2012 Server R2.    So what if you don't have access... [More]

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Howdy!   Further to Edgar's blog about CM Items, What is Maximo ACMs CM Items(CM) application about? here are the steps to build an Asset Hierarchy for an aircraft in Asset Configuration Manager .   STEPS : 1. Go to the Models (CM) application. Create a new record called A320 with description Airbus A320. Enter an LCN Structure e.g. 16666666 Top LCN = L Label System = ATA   2. Go to the "Build Items" section. Click "New Row" to create a new Build Item. Enter 1ST... [More]

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Application updates and screen changes are performed in Application Designer and are not propagated to all clients in a clustered server environment   For other cluster members, the cache must be updated manually by either restarting the cluster member or opening the application on each cluster member and saving.    The following steps can be executed on each cluster member to ensure that updates are propagated to all clients.   To make sure that the proper server is being updated, verify the URL which server is currently... [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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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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Howdy!  In Maximo 7.6.0.6 workflow designer no longer requires java applet to load.  i.e. I no longer need to install an appropriate Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and wait for the applet to load in workflow.  Less time waiting, more time working! I can now use the mouse to draw lines to join the nodes together (without selecting an icon on the toolbar first) right-click and drag to draw Positive lines from one node to another. ctrl-right-click and drag to draw Negative lines from one node to another.   In the system... [More]

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