Q.   OK, so what exactly is Telematics?   A.   The integrated use of telecommunications and informatics, also known as ICT (Information and Communications Technology). More specifically it is the science of sending, receiving, and storing information via telecommunication devices.   Q.   How about in plain English?   A.   Electronic devices on-board assets collect information that is extracted and used in some way.   Q.  How about a picture? A.                               Q.  What kind of information do telematics systems collect from... [More]

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  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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Is the migration of configuration content between your Maximo instances requiring some "assistance" in dealing with content related errors? Are you constantly dealing with failed deployment situations due to configuration content differences between your various Maximo instances (e.g. Development, QA) ? If you answer yes to any of the previous questions, you might want to leverage Migration Manager Replacement Rules functionality and replace, during package deployment,  invalid field values before they generate a deployment error... [More]

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With the IBM Maximo Spatial 7.1.1.1. and 7.5 releases,  a  Spatial Check Configuration Tool is available to verify the integration between Maximo Spatial and Geographic Information System (GIS). This tool will assist customer to display warnings and errors about the user installation and collect information to help IBM support investigate problems.    Executing the tool From Map Manager (Spatial) Application An Menu Option was added to Map Manager (Spatial) Application Select Action Menu.      Open Map Manager (Spatial) Application: Click at Go... [More]

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If you've never configured the Maximo User Interface before, here's a new tutorial that demonstrates how to add a new field to the Advanced Search dialog of the Incident application.   In this tutorial, you'll use Maximo's Application Designer to configure the control properties of the attribute 'Createdby' .                   Next, you will access the Database Configuration application and update the MBO Attribute.  When you are finished with these steps, your users will have access to the 'Created By' Field in the application's Advanced... [More]

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Do you know how to fold one of these…..while cramped in car  traveling 72 miles per hour…with a husband exasperated that you also don’t know how to read one…along with a dog panting in your ear   and your child questioning ‘ Are we there yet ?’     We’ve since graduated to the amazing electronic GPS technology where a woman in a lovely voice calmly directs us to where we need to go.  Truly loving this technology where no folding is required! As maps define how we get from here to there, report specifications do the same.  Report specifications... [More]

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Maximo for Service Providers is an add-on product for Maximo and SmartCloud Control Desk that helps meets the needs of clients who manage assets and services for customers, as a business, or clients who manage assets and services within an enterprise and bills internally for those services.  It includes a suite of applications that manage customer agreements, response plans, service delivery, supplier contracts and customer billing.     A simple but powerful capability which is available in Maximo for Service Providers is the ability to bill... [More]

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On 10/12/2012, IBM released Maximo for Nuclear Power V7.5.1 . So, for those who are willing to upgrade their Nuclear Power V6.x to the V7.5.1, below is a flowchart to help you quickly perform this upgrade path. For those who want to upgrade directly from Nuclear Power V7.1.x you do not need to follow the steps under " Upgrade process for Nuclear Power v6.3 -> Nuclear 7.1.x " of the flowchart. You just need to follow the steps under " Upgrade to V7.5 " below. In this case make sure to bypass the steps related related to... [More]

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Hello!   I am going to provide a tip today in how to fix one of the common errors that are reported during the Validation run, in an upgrade scenario from the Maximo Asset Management (with or without IS/Addons) 6.x to 7.1.x level.  The Validation utility is executed after the Integrity Checker runs are completed without any error remaining and its main objective is to check that valid data in the source Maximo database (to-be-upgraded) that needs user intervention is transformed correctly before the ugprade can proceed. For example,... [More]

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In a large scaled Maximo environment, some of us would use IBM DB2 pureScale database. As the more nodes you have, the more contentions there are on every kind of resources. Normally, Maximo is using Sequence object inside database to avoid the locking issues that are associated with other more heavier approaches  In a standard database, Maximo usually cache some sequence values in memory to improve response time. While in a DB2 pureScale environment, if both CACHE and ORDER are specified, the specification of ORDER overrides the specification... [More]

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  I found my eyeballs in the attic.    They were waiting for me this weekend as I waded thru a box of festive Halloween decorations.  The eyeballs screamed ‘clone’ to me….cloned alligators ,  cloned ostriches and cloned Maximo applications. When you clone a Maximo application, you may want to enable QBR (Ad Hoc Reporting) functionality for a new or cloned application.  The steps below detail how you can do this.   1.  Verify that the RUNREPORTS Security Option is enabled for your cloned application.  (This is a Prerequisite sigoption to the QBR... [More]

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A new installation guide is available for installing Maximo Asset Management version 7.5 on WebSphere Application Server, Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft Active Directory. For detailed information, see the technote: Installation Guide for Maximo Asset Management version 7.5 (WebSphere Application Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Active Directory) .   In July 2012, as part of the 7.5.0.3 fix pack release, customized installation guides were published to focus on some of the most common middleware configurations. These guides contain... [More]

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Can you please put the refrigerator back in the milk?   As my family stared at me in perplexed amusement and enthusiastic anticipation in how they were going to fit the refrigerator in a gallon of milk – I soon realized that multi-tasking had once again gotten the best of me.  In my quest to get dinner on the table, bake cookies for a school event, find the top to my coffee travel mug , and feed the dog , my words got tangled.  Multi-tasking had once again proven to be a performance disabler  leading to burnt cookies and spilled milk.    ... [More]

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Hi.   My name is Jean Carlos and I'd like to let you all know of our brand new blog Maximo Upgrade Tips ,  which authors are part of the Brazil Maximo/Industry Solutions Upgrade QA team. We are going to put there posts with tips in how to perform Maximo and Industry Solution upgrades, quick guides for some specific scenarios, tips in how to fix Integrity Checker, Validate errors, workarounds, and so on, all this based in our experience of testing the Upgrade scenarios for IBM Maximo Asset Management, Industry Solutions and some... [More]

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Work Order Tracking location and asset business rule In the Maximo product, the Work Order Tracking application is one of the most heavily used business applications. In the product release versions 5.x, 6.x and 7.x, right up to the most recent 7.5, a business rule is automatically applied that can be stated as follows: Populate the Asset field if the Location chosen for the work order contains just one asset. With many clients the auto-population of the Asset field is not useful. Most work orders are opened against a Location, not an... [More]

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Those of us that remember the process of manually creating the "Webserver1" interface to enable support for WebSphere to use the IBM HTTP Server as it's front-end listener may have to do a little homework now that the process has changed with version 8 and higher of WebSphere.   WebSphere 8 introduced a new concept called the Plug-Ins Configuration Tool or PCT for short. This new tool is used to create the Plugin configuration file that you can use to create the webserver1 profile that Maximo and Maximo-based products have... [More]

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Asset Configuration Manager (CM) contains a powerful tool for creating and managing critical time-dependent maintenance or design change tasks that typically apply to an entire fleet. The Technical Records (CM) application is used to manage and apply changes issued by manufacturers, vendors, regulatory agencies, and others.  Technical Records (CM) can be used to manage the following types of records from manufacturers, vendors, and regulatory agencies:   Airworthiness Directives. (AD's are issued when an aviation authority finds that an... [More]

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By Christa Barker and Alfredo Cortes   The Database Configuration Application has been enhanced in Maximo 7.5.0.3 with a new object definition menu called ‘Exclude Attribute Data’.  Here is where you can specify the user-defined attributes that you do not want included in your new object during the duplication process.   Additionally you have the ability to control what records are excluded by using a condition created with our SQL Builder.  Records are skipped when the condition specified evaluates to true. See the ‘Exclude Attribute Data’... [More]

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    Nestled inside rich red velvet drizzled with dark and milk chocolate, a delectable cream cheese bursts with unexpected and delightful flavors.  This cookie, along with many other incredible desserts, starred in a Chocolate Buffet Fund Raiser that I chaired this past weekend to raise money for local food and fuel charities. Nestled inside enterprise and legacy rich Maximo, the unexpected, powerful Report Viewer application waits for you.   This application was introduced in Maximo Version 7.5, along with many other notable report features... [More]

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