Sometimes it is required for child work orders to inherit one parent status (for example APPR) while not inheriting another (for example, INPRG) all in one transaction. For example, one may want to take a work order hierarchy where all members are WAPPR and have the parent status change to INPRG while the children only move to APPR. This can be accomplished by leveraging Maximo’s workflow capabilities.  Click the  following link to learn more:  Controlling mixed work order status inheritance via workflow

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The database is central to the functionality of IBM Tivoli service management products. It stores all data that is collected and calculated by the applications. This database also stores metadata for configuring and maintaining the environment. Reporting also generates resource-intensive management reports. Because all functionality is based on database performance, the database can be a key focus for performance tuning. SQL query tuning and creating indexes against a database can help to obtain maximum performance from IBM Tivoli service... [More]

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Just home from watching Avengers Assemble at  the movies, thinking about how super heroes manage to be exactly where they are needed at just the right time. When you are in a tricky situation, wouldn't it be convenient to have your own personal superhero to save the day. Maximo field help is available to you exactly when you need it, and where you need it. If you do not know what information is needed in a Maximo field, or what the consequences of selecting a particular option are, then you can click ALT+F1 on the field and the information you... [More]

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Ever explored the various ways of changing status of Mbos using the Integration framework. The Integration framework provides 2 kinds of services - Object Structure Services and Standard Services which allows a client to change status of a stateful Mbo using XML/HTTP or SOAP invocation. All these can achieved with configuration and no coding work is needed on the Maximo/Tpae platform side. For more details about how to do this please select this link or access this url... [More]

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Note: Barb Ballard recently posted the following blog entry in the Process Automation Group. Since it equally applies to Asset Management, I thought I would post it here too.   When debugging a problem or when looking to recycle a JVM, it is useful to know which users are logged onto the system and what JVM they are working on. If a JVM needs to be recycled, you could then notify the users on that JVM that they will get an interruption in service. Or when debugging a problem it is useful to know what a user was doing on a particular JVM... [More]

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Introduction In Part II of the series of articles calculating dates, we learned to use the Java Calendar and Date classes and methods. The question is: What is the equivalent in JavaScript? This article picks up where Part II left off and implements a JavaScript-based script to calculate dates. JavaScript-based date calculation The scenario is exactly the same as Part II, so I will not go over the set up details again. Please review Part II if you need to understand how scripting is exploited to calculate dates. To summarize: I created an... [More]

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Have you ever wondered or felt like you have been backed into a corner and couldn't get out? Well maybe you have, but probably not when dealing with Maximo. Maximo is highly customizable and if you ever thought that you couldn't do something in Maximo, you were probably wrong. There is usually a way to accomplish most things you're looking to accomplish.  Either via custom code, or through front end customizations. Have you ever wondered how you could manipulate the PM Work Order Generation crontask to execute PM's for certain sites? As... [More]

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  Yoo Hoo.  Yes...Not Yahoo...Yoo Hoo.  I was introduced to this chocolate milk type drink last week when I hosted over 40 girls from my daughter's high school swim team for a pasta dinner.  After a long day of school and practice, the girls descend onto a parent's house to refuel themselves with pasta and Yoo Hoo's before heading off to their next activity of another swim practice, work or homework.    I quickly lost count of how many cartons of Yoo Hoo's were consumed at our house....but couldn't get that marvelous, celebratory... [More]

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No, this is not a Burger King commercial! If you are implementing Maximo Asset Management 7.5 (MAM 7.5) and are not able to change the status of an approved purchase order to waiting on approval (WAPPR or whopper) in order to make edits to the purchase order, you have come to the right spot! Read on…   In MAM 7.5, supply chain management features got an overhaul. A slew of new features were introduced in purchasing area out of which purchase order revision is one of them. We will refer to purchase order revisioning as PO revision from this... [More]

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