Some of you using BIRT reports in Maximo might have changed the width of the margin in your reports in order to accommodate some data such as tables with many columns. You might have simply used the Print icon once you have run your BIRT report with a customised margin width and not noticed that the report size reverts to the default size when the report is printed via the Direct Print icon on the toolbar instead. Report printouts will have the default margin when printed with Direct Print, thus ignoring the customization done in the rptdesign... [More]

Maximo SysAdm Times Welcome to the Sysadm Times !!!!!!   My name is Stephan Lambert and I have been working in Maximo in Systems Admin for last 10 years. In my blogs I will be highlighting different topics around Sysadms and covering UI customization. This blog series will all be helpful tips, tricks and how-to's on Maximo SYSADM .   Recently I have been working a lot with troubleshooting /debugging automation scripts in TPAE 7.6 and I would like to share with you an example of automation script which has been implemented to... [More]

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Hi,   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.   As the Service Providers' Maximo Industry Solutions  is quiet unknown territory for a lot of you out there, let's have a brief high level overview of  the fairly new functionality of Price Books (SP).   The Flow for Price Book pricing looks as follows:       Dates that are used in Price Books (SP) are as follows:   Actuals: LABOR --> this is based... [More]

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  The latest version of Maximo® for Aviation offers new features, applications, and enhancements to help you maintain the safety of your aircraft and comply with regulations.   New features in procurement To reduce transportation costs, in the new Shipments application, you can consolidate several shipment requests into a single shipment.   The shipment process has been simplified by integrating it with the procurement process and the Exchange Orders application. Shipment requests can now be generated from the Purchase Orders... [More]

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  The latest version of Maximo® for Asset Configuration Manager offers new features and capabilities to help you achieve greater efficiency in asset management.   Associate systems with models to standardize definitions and specify configuration rules for the systems To help you to define system-specific configuration rules, you can now define a master list of systems that can be applied to multiple models to standardize engineering definitions. To better understand system dependencies and relationships, you can now view... [More]

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Currently there is a technote detailing our support for Maximo Reports and it contains suggestions for troubleshooting customized and modified reports. However, it appears that this technote is not easy to find from a Google search.   I recommend bookmarking the link below and hope that this Blog can help link to the technote as I have added appropriate keyword tags that hopefully search engines will eventually pickup. Report Support - How are customized and modified reports supported by IBM?... [More]

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Hi,   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.   This is a short ,quick and easy tip for those that are not aware now to clear your Java cache (on Windows only) .   It's simple and you will be surprised how many of you out there are not sure how to do this, until now ,so here it is as follows :   Click Start > Control Panel. Locate and double click the Java icon in the Control Panel. Click Settings under Temporary Internet... [More]

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Hello, For those that do not know me, 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. Recently I had a tricky issue to deal with whereby existing old data was causing problems with person records , in my case with Supervisors not being able to be added to Maximo records. The following steps and script is a great tip and trick on how to tackle any issues around person records (in this case with supervisors) : 1. Create a backup copy of PERSONANCESTOR table. 2.... [More]

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Trace logging is a powerful tool that can log debug data in Maximo. It is used to log calls to methods in the Maximo classes so you can see what methods the code is calling. You can also add information to the log on what parameters were passed in and what was returned from the method. If you want even more information, you can create a stack trace to see what method called the method you are tracking. This logging does require some additional setup and have a performance hit since it's using byte code injection through a Java agent. The... [More]

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