A few weeks ago I entered a blog about getting data from Maximo using the REST API, Maximo, IoT and REST. This blog will continue on with the REST example and show you one example on how to enter data into Maximo. For example, if you had a large tank and wanted to know the water level you could use a BeagleBone to read the water level and report it to Maximo. Imagine you have your BeagleBone Black setup to read a potentiometer that had an arm attached to a floating device in the tank. The potentiometer is now reading the angle of... [More]

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Have you asked yourself whether there is any property in Maximo 7.6 to control the refresh the data on the screen after a launch point executed?   Some people asked the same question, so, it's not just you.   Sometimes you experience the scenario where after a launch point automation script executed, the screen does not refresh the data immediately in the Maximo UI fields.   It is about 10 second delay that it takes to correct the data in the fields involved.   One thing that we could recommend you to check is a system property called ... [More]

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Your session will time out in 60 seconds   That is the message that not many people love to see when you are not working on a Maximo window for a moment and the process that you are testing is still not finished.   By default, client sessions are timed out after 30 minutes of inactivity.  You are lucky that t here is a way to disable that.  ;-)   That would be possible if you configure the timeout setting to a negative value, such as -1.   This following instructions outlines the steps to change the timeout settings.   1. Edit web.xml which you... [More]

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Maximo has a lot of integration abilities and one of them is the REST API. One of the really great thing about the REST API is that it is a very simple protocol that can be used to communicate with Internet of Things devices. It is compact and light weight and does not need much resources. There are many IoT devices to pick from but my personal favorite is the BeagleBone Black (BBB). It is a low cost credit card size computer and the best part is that it does not need much setup to communicate with Maximo. To try the example you only need a... [More]

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It was brought to my attention that after installing Maximo Anywhere 7.5.2.1 a new plug in file is copied to the Installation Manager shared folders, once installed only this plug in will be read when displaying the installation panels. Now the problem with this is, if you decide to install another version of Maximo Anywhere to the same server under a new package group which is supported by the Installation Manager some panels may be missing from the installation process.  Specifically panels regarding the Android SDK.  With this... [More]

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As some of you may already know Maximo Anywhere 7.5.2.1 was released this week. Along with the usual bug fixes and enhancements that are included in the Maximo Anywhere fix packs this release also brings support for Windows Tablets, to add to the current supported Android and iOS platforms.    It's important to note the following information from the README around the supported Windows OS platforms. Windows tablets running on the Windows OS 8.1 are supported, however 8.0 is not a supported tablet operating system. The Maximo... [More]

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As many of you may know Maximo TPAE (Base) fixes are bundled with Scheduler fixes. I just wanted to make this quick blog entry to share what each base version had bundled with it. Maximo version 7504 and lower comes with fixes for scheduler version 751, versions 7505 and higher come with fixes for scheduler 752. My co-worker pointed out that Maximo 7.6.0.0 has Scheduler 7.5.3.   What this means if upgrading from a previous version of Maximo to a newer version you will need to plan to upgrade your scheduler version at the same time.... [More]

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  The instructions for enabling security created by my colleague included in the blog entry link below describe the steps necessary to enable application server security including modifications to web.xml files for the associated war modules, updates to system properties,  rebuild/redeployment of the maximo.ear, enabling global security within the WebSphere Administrative Console, and restarting the application servers.   ... [More]

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On Oracle database, the default optimizer_mode is ALL_ROWS.  This optimizer_mode is inefficient for Maximo SQL queries, especially users screen response.   Here is an explanation of Oracle optimizer_mode from oracle documentation -- http://docs.oracle.com/database/121/TGSQL/tgsql_influence.htm Relevant information extracted from the above link Best throughput (default) When you set the OPTIMIZER_MODE value to ALL_ROWS , the database uses the least amount of resources necessary to process all rows that the statement accessed. For batch... [More]

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