You may have installed Maximo Anywhere recently and you chose to use the full version of WebSphere as your application server over WebSphere Liberty Profile or Apache. When going through the install screens you may have noticed you can't change the appcenteradmin password from the install panels. Have you ever wondered where this user is stored? How to change the password for appcenteradmin? Or even create another user? If so continue to read further. The first part is understanding where this user is created and stored. The Worklight... [More]

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You've downloaded and installed WebSphere 8.5.5, the IHS and the Plugin. You have everything up and running, Maximo deployed and want to use the web server to access Maximo or load balance to multiple JVM's, so why isn't it working? Why are you receiving "Page Not Found" errors? In most cases it's likely a key step was missed that is automated with the Middleware\Maximo install when using WebSphere 7, that step is the Plugin Configuration. During the install of WebSphere 8.5.5, you may of only installed the Application... [More]

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This is a cross post from  Service Management 360 site . Are you interested in learning more about Maximo mobility options and Maximo Anywhere? In this blog F ive considerations for building mobile solutions for IBM Maximo ,  I cover some common factors to be considered when defining your mobility solution for Maximo, including: Portability to different mobile devices Usability and fit to purpose Connectivity requirements Configurability and Extensability Standardization of mobility solutions across the enterprise I... [More]

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This will show you how to add a toolbar button for an Automation script. I have included a “dummy” script that does not do much, it is just to show you how to add a toolbar button to an application. Create the script. First go to Automation Scripting and create a new Action Launch Point. For this purpose, I called my Launch Point MYSCRIPT and left the Action to MYSCRIPT as well. Notice that I picked ASSET for my object, I plan to add this button to the Asset Application. I then select a name for my actual script, I just left it as... [More]

Last week in part one of my two-part Pre-Implementation Planning for Building a Maximo / SCCD Organization discussion we talked about the considerations that need to be made to be successful in planning out your organization.  In today's discussion we'll look at some of the types of questions that you as a planner should be asking of your teams and why. Here's a few questions to get you started: Is there any need to limit users in one part of your business from seeing or updating data in another part of your business?  If... [More]

(if you find this article is cut off on the right margin, try to switch your browser to chrome and try again) Background   IBM Tivoli group has just released a maximo mobile product called: MaximoAnywhere, version 7.5, t his product is using the IBM Worklight to bridge the core maximo and maximo mobile applications on real devices. Enterprise user needs to install the mobile platform and applications, IBM also provides other installation options, like, worklight studio. If only are platform and applications selected to install, then these... [More]

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New mapping capabilities were introduced in Scheduler 7.5.1 that allow clients to view assets, locations, tickets and work orders on a Google, Bing or Spatial map within Maximo. By default when you go into these applications you see only one marker in the Map tab based on the main record.  This functionality then leads to the question ‘How do I view multiple markers on a map?” The Map Control in the Scheduler product is available in Application Designer.  Using the control properties along with a data source, the ability... [More]

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Recently, I encountered a use case of crossover domain that worth blogging about.    The concept of crossover domain is simple. It is a way to trigger something to happen when an attribute is being populated. That something is to copy one or more attributes from a related object to the current object that is involved in the operation at this moment. For example, you want to “crossover” the item’s description when you are putting the item on the purchase order that you are creating.    Crossover domain is a... [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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