Recently I've been doing quite a bit of work with IBM's messaging appliance MessageSight . If you haven't heard of it and want to learn more, please click on the link. In working with this new appliance, I wanted to configure WebSphere MQ to pass my messages to from Message Sight. After configuring this, I started thinking about configuring this same WebSphere MQ environment to work with Maximo instead of using WebSphere's traditional JMS queues. Once I started my configuration the first thing I noticed, is there isn't a lot... [More]

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I want to share the results of a recent interaction with one of IBM's clients in which the customer showed me a unique and very useful way that he was using a Maximo feature at his site - nothing short of brilliant.  In technology, science, and art, the best solutions are simple, eloquent, and elegant.  Maybe that's a fairly "highbrow" observation from this humble support engineer, but this customer showed me an impeccable example of this! I've mentioned frequently in this forum that I enjoy finding out how our customers are... [More]

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New properties in Maximo 7.6 have made it easier to change the way the buttons appear in the Maximo Navbar. Depending upon your personal preference you can show the header buttons as they show in Maximo 7.5 or you can set it to use the more modern button positioning and appearance.  If you upgrade from a previous version of Maximo then it defaults to the traditional appearance and if you have a fresh install of version 7.6 it defaults to the modern look.  The image below shows what  I mean by the modern look.      ... [More]

Overview This post describes a solution to the Locale-specific decimal separator-related problem that may cause the Inventory Options dialog to load without values. This document will be useful to you if you see the following when going to Administration > Organizations > Inventory Options > Inventory Defaults:   Introduction Out-of-box Maximo has 3 inventory-related MAXVARS that, like all MAXVARS, are stored as String values in MAXVARS.VARVALUE and MAXVARTYPE.DEFAULTVALUE. These MAXVARS, A_BREAKPOINT, B_BREAKPOINT, and... [More]

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So, end of March, and time to blog again. I was going to do an entry on upgrading from Maximo 7.5.0.6 to Maximo 7.6.0.0. Things didn't work out as I planned. I have 26 screen shots ready for that post (or posts), but at about screen shot 24, I realized that I had goofed. Instead of upgrading from Maximo 7.5.0.6, my upgrade database was at Maximo 7.5.0.5. That is not supposed to be upgradeable to 7.6.0.0. Rules are, follow the instructions step-by-step, and don't magically hope that the 7.6.0.0 upgrade will update my database without a... [More]

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I have been in Maximo Support for many years and often the question comes up what does LIFO/FIFO do? You can define your costs on an item by item basis by changing the cost type in Inventory on that item or a default for your site in the Organization application->Select Action->Inventory Options->Inventory Costs. In here, you can define what accounting method you want to track so that your costs reflect the standard for that item. When you do that, the Inventory application displays a different table. Before LIFO/FIFO was incorporated... [More]

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I can't decide  ,  can't control my hunger  and can't stop talking about Maximo 76!   In Maximo 76, the listing of new and updated BI features is astounding!  Included in this feature set is Ad Hoc or QBR Reporting.  Ad Hoc reporting empowers business and power users   to create their own reports for their unique business and project needs.   Starting in Maximo 76, numerous new features   have been introduced  including adding calculations on one or more attributes,... [More]

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  I've been doing a lot of work with our latest Mobile software, Maximo Anywhere. If you haven't heard of Maximo Anywhere or your looking for more information on Maximo Anywhere you can head on over to it's product page .   When working with Maximo Anywhere, I decided I wanted to secure my transactions using LDAP and SSL (I will document LDAP in another post) and recently a blog was published by a colleague of mine on using the key tool with Java, that blog can be found here . Now we all know how important security is... [More]

Tags:  ssl security worklight mobile websphere keystore maximo+anywhere maximo anywhere

After upgrading a Maximo application, one of the last steps you will need to perform is importing your reports.  This is done using the importreports script file on windows or Unix.  If your application server hosting Maximo is secured using digital certificates, the importreports script may fail to perform the import of your reports, if the root certificates are missing from the keystore that the command will use to connect to the application server. How do you determine where they go? The importreports.cmd and importreports.sh... [More]

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