BiLog: Understanding..Capabilities..Specification Best Practice
The aftermath was astonishing. An energetic team of dedicated high school students strung toilet paper from each tree branch at our house in an annual tradition celebrating seniors on their swim team . While our daughter basked in the glory of at last being a senior, I gazed at the 100’s of strands of toilet paper, and wondered ‘What will the neighbors say?’. While understanding unique traditions may make your toes twitch, understanding report capabilities is key to developing accurate and achievable report specifications. In the last... [More]
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Enabling multi-language support - a simplified set of instructions
The first step to using multiple languages with Maximo is to ensure that the multilanguage pack is installed. The Tpae Solution installer is typically found in c:\ibm\smp\bin Language packages are in found by default in c:\ibm\smp\pmp To install the language pack you wish to use, I have provided an example of the command below using the Solution installer c:\IBM\SMP\bin>solutionInstaller.bat -action install -pkgpath c:\ibm\smp\pmp\PAE_Lang_Pkg_7.5.0.6_Es.zip -dbpwd maximo -dbuser maximo -license accept Rebuild and redeploy the maximo ear... [More]
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Application Development: Event Handling in the User Interface Framework
Are you an application developer of a Maximo product? Before you configure the user interfaces and applications within Maximo to meet your end users requirements, it is important to understand which events are sent to the the user interface framework when your users interact with application widgets. Then you need to understand the ways the user interface framework can "handle" these events. Grasp these two concepts about how out-of-the-box applications respond to events and you will be much more effective at customizing the user... [More]
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Email Interaction Setup (EIS) application
Email Interaction Setup (EIS) application application is included in Maximo Asset Management Fixpack 7.5.0.3 and above. With EIS users can interact with Maximo using a smartphone without having to login to Maximo: Change the status of a record such as a work order Accept or reject a workflow assignment Update attributes such as the start date The overall benefit of using Email Interaction Setup is that progress is not held up while waiting for the action of an end user. Below is a sample email from Maximo: Simply reply with... [More]
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BiLog: Brownies, Bronies and Adding LD to ROS
One W separates brownies from bronies. Brownies are incredible, delectable chocolate goodness, while bronies are followers of a children's TV Show. Bronies and their collections of Little Ponies have become increasingly popular in the Software Development world thru their features in Wired Magazine . While I’m not a bronie, whenever I hear about software and collections, my mind jumps over to data collection. Last week, I talked to a client about long descriptions, which are available in the various Maximo applications to collect large... [More]
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BiLog: Phenomenal Speeds...and V7 Report Comparison
Enabling speeds up to 186,000 miles per second, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) houses the fastest racetrack in the world with protons traveling at 99.99999% the speed of light. Comparing this to the awe-inspiring space shuttle which blasts into space at 17,500 miles per hour, or 0.48 miles per second – and the race clearly belongs to LHC. From here, you could compare these magnificent enablers of scientific research in many different ways, including the costs and the time to build, number of... [More]
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Keeping a BDI on your Assets.
Maximo
Asset Configuration Manager (ACM) is designed to manage the
configuration management requirements of complex assets operating in
the aerospace, defence and rail sectors where safety and regulatory
compliance is of primary importance. One
of the central components of Maximo ACM is the Build
Data Interpreter (BDI). At
it's most basic level the BDI analyses configuration managed Assets
position by position to ensure that they comply with the
configuration rules established in the corresponding model. That
said the BDI is a pretty... [More]
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BiLog: Pyramids...Maximo Report Users
When faced with choices , I often try to remember the food pyramid when deciding between a decadent red velvet cookie and a crunchy Kale chip. Consume large quantities of green leafy vegetables, and small quantities of delicious sugary treats the pyramid reminds me – while my stomach violently disagrees. Likewise, a pyramid is key to understanding Maximo report users. When we talk about Maximo users in terms of reporting and data analysis – we put them in the five categories shown here. These categories are based on the user’s job... [More]
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Triggering Item Warranties in Maximo for Transportation
One of the questions I am most
frequently asked is in regards to how item warranties are triggered. In order to explain this, I
think it best to start with an example. Say you are in the mood for
listening to some of your favorite tunes as you jog along the river bank. You head down to the local electronics store
and pick out a stylin’ device with headphones that match your sneakers. Now, as is expected in our
society, you must pay for this item before you leave the store. Although the device has a warranty that will
take effect... [More]
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BiLog: Maximo Cognos Meta Data Publishing Business Rules
Some rules are hard to follow. Not eating dessert before dinner. Always walking inside of the crosswalk. Not bringing my favorite Diet Raspberry Ice Tea to a movie theatre. Business rules in Maximo specify product functionality. In the Maximo Cognos report integration, there are some key business rules to be aware of for the metadata publishing process we’ve been reviewing the last few weeks. As noted in the last entry, you can publish Report Object Structures (ROS) in... [More]
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Configuring WebSphere MQ for use with Maximo.
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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Maximo Integration - Considerations for continuous queue based scenarios
Transaction processing associated with Maximo integration scenarios involving a high number of external systems, might not necessarily be the optimum when working with a SINGLE continuous queue. Application server’s queue configuration values will be driven by the largest common denominator that addresses the transactional needs of ALL external systems. Are you aware that is possible to specify to each external system in your integration scenario a dedicated continuous queue? By configuring Maximo’s integration framework continuous queue... [More]
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BiLog:Representations....Configuring Email Content Type for Reporting
Large chunks of succulent lobster lightly tossed with chilled mayonnaise and nestled between a sweet-butter grilled hot dog roll. Ahhh….the Lobster Roll…a true New England experience. And as the lobster rolls represents New England Cuisine, one of the most powerful representations of Maximo is its ease of customization . Throughout the BiLog entries, a number of ways you can customize Maximo reporting have been detailed including 1. Record Limits. Defining the maximum records reports can execute against as a performance enabler. 2. ... [More]
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How can I optimize the benefits of my asset warranties? a.k.a. Saving money on asset maintenance!
Most new, rebuilt, or remanufactured assets will carry some level of warranty
against defects or failures. Significant
savings can be realized by maximizing the benefits of these warranties by
either recovering costs your organization has incurred performing warranty
repairs or by avoiding incurring the costs by having the vendor or manufacturer
perform the repair. In the June 1, 2011 blog
titled ‘ Triggering Item Warranties in Maximo for Transportation ’, we described
how to manage item or spare part warranties. Today we will... [More]
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Working with Archived Data
At our PULSE conference we had a lot of interest in the Maximo Archiving with Optim product. One of the most common questions that we were asked was about how you could interact with archived data. Depending on your business requirements there are different ways that your user can interact with archived data. You can use one or more of these methodologies as they meet your business needs. ‘Just in Case’ Access – In this case the data will remain in the archive files and stored on lower-tier storage or even off site. This would be... [More]
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