When IBM introduced support for WebSphere 8 with Maximo 7.5.0.2 one of the benefits of supporting WebSphere 8 was the new installation process which is simpler and more efficient than the previous versions of WebSphere. WebSphere 8 uses the IBM Installation Manager which has a built-in update mechanism to keep both the Installation Manager and any products installed by the Installation Manager (WebSphere 8 being one of them with others such as the IBM Data Studio client tool suite for DB2) up to date. If the system that you have the... [More]

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Generating request pages is a common task among Maximo administrators and users alike.  Users can create BIRT reports and publish them to Maximo application, and  an important part of this process is generating request pages.  Request Pages are also known as XMLs. When a user needs to generate xmls in Maximo, they go to Report Administration application and click the "Generate Request Page" button. This button exists in two places: 1)on the main, List, Tab 2)on the Report tab (after user selects the individual report by... [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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Conditional UI is a powerful tool that can change the behavior of your user interfaces based on the state of the current record or the role of an individual user.  See the Application Configuration Best Practices page for more details on what Conditional UI can do for your users. To implement some conditional user interface use cases, Maximo 7.x allows you to conditionally change the property values of your widgets.  This is controlled in the Application Designer application by launching the “Configure Conditional... [More]

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We use bind variables a lot in maximo. We are familiar with relationships like “ LOCATION=:LOCATION and SITEID=:SITEID ”, and conditions like “ :CLASS='INCIDENT' ”. “ :LOCATION ”, “: CLASS ” are maximo bind variable. They are resolved to the actual value of the specified attribute of the current business object. Current business object means the object that the expression is evaluated against. Depending on the context, it is the parent object that the relationship is defined on, or the object a condition is evaluated against. Less familiar to... [More]

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This BLOG was edited on July 8, 2018. There have been some excellent comments and suggestions that I wanted to highlight in the body of the BLOG.  Refer to the Comments section for any additional information. Today we will discuss a couple of reasons why your users may be receiving multiple emails for a single scheduled report from Maximo. For example, the user has a weekly report sent to them yet, for some unknown reason, they get 2, or more copies of the report in their inbox. The "unknown" reason is usually one of two things.... [More]

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"Before you can race, you must qualify". As a fan of Motorsports (Formula 1 in particular) I hear this phrase on many weekends throughout the season. The phrase basically means that to have the highest chance of being successful in an endeavor you must prepare adequately. In this article I shall take this same idea and show you how to apply it to a successful Maximo installation. If "qualifying" is preparing for a race then careful planning of your IBM Maximo Administrative Workstation is along the same lines. Many of us... [More]

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I was using the Job Plans application in one of my test instances the other day and unexpectedly found one of the fields was read-only. Cross checking with two other Maximo instances I had access to, I confirmed that Out Of The Box the field should not be read-only, it should be read-write. The field in question was the Nested Job Plan field. Here it is: (NB: It is no longer greyed out - I have already fixed it - see below) Figure1:                   To correct this I had to export the application... [More]

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with Steve Haupman, Anamitra Bhattacharyya and Sampath Sriramadhesikan (IBM US)   Introduction The purpose of this article is to present a technical solution using Maximo Automated Scripting to the problem of plain text white space content via email appearing flattened in the SR ticket Rich Text Editor (RTE).    Creating the Script Navigate to: System Configuration > Platform Configuration > Automation Scripts then Select Action > Create > Script with Attribute Launch Point   Step 1: Create the... [More]

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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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Too long for a tweet, not appropriate for a Tech Note, but still technical... a blog post! I recently had a call with a client regarding the BMXAA7901E login failure message. During their validation testing, they thought that Maximo was not displaying the correct message on the login page for certain conditions. In all cases, Maximo displays BMXAA7901E - You cannot log in at this time. Contact the system administrator. He had expected different messages, based on why the login failed, and what messages were available in the MAXMESSAGES table... [More]

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As the IBM Maximo team builds on Agile best practices to faster and higher quality development, we are looking forward to implementing many improvements around Continuous Delivery (CD).  In it's most extreme, CD is a fully automated code delivery and test pipeline that will take a code change, through all the build, test, and promotion steps and make the change available without any manual intervention, and with full visibility to the team.  If there is a problem with the change, the line is stopped and the defect routed... [More]

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Configuration Management (CM) is the specification of allowable as-designed asset assemblies (“Models”) and/or as-maintained physical builds. It can also mean the process of ensuring that actual asset physical builds meet the requirements of an allowable configuration. Functional builds may also be represented (for example, an “electronic systems only” view of the equipment). For the purposes of this “Models” application design, we take the rigorous view that Configuration Management refers only to reference data (i.e. the configurations... [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.      There has been a behaviour change introduced by the Maximo Base Services 7.5.0.6 Ifix005 a lot of users are not aware of.   Previously, when Actual Start / Actual Finish fields were auto-populated on Work Orders from the earliest / latest Actual Labor Start Time / End Time, only Actual Labor records with null Task fields were considered. Now, a new property has been... [More]

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