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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Introduction The objective of this post is provide a definitive view of how configuring Maximo authentication using WebSphere and a LDAP Federated Repository. During the reading, it will be possible to understand some definitions and get tips to take the best of this capability. This example uses the Federate Repository functionality of WAS, which means, allow one-to-many authentication sources be used as a single view from the application perspective. It is worth considering this approach due its easy configuration and ability to expand to... [More]

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Maximo Mobile applications are Java based applications that run on Windows based devices, such as PDAs with Windows Mobile, and Netbooks, Notebooks and Desktops. Those applications use a HTTP channel to exchange data, like Assets, Locations, Work Orders and Tickets with Maximo EAM. The HTTP protocol by itself does not provide cryptography on the data transport. The combination of HTTP + SSL (Security Socket Layer) support the data exchange between the server that hosts Maximo EAM and the Maximo Mobile applications. This combination is widely... [More]

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WebSphere 9 Installation and Configuration WebSphere 9 Installation Download and install WebSphere Application Server 9.0.0.0 See also How to install the 7.6.0 version of Maximo Asset Management with WebSphere Application Server 9.0 and DB2 version 11.1.1 and Maximo 7.6.0.6+ and WebSphere 9.0.0 - Getting Started . See the Technote on WebSphere 9 performance and steps to setting Custom Properties for improving application startup in WebSphere Application Server . * Download IBM Installation Manager * Download WebSphere 9.0.0.0 packages for... [More]

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This is the second part to go with my previous blog on VMMSYNC, except this time we're going to be discussing LDAPSYNC. There is a lot of overlap between the two processes so there will be some information repeated here from VMMSYNC, however it will be focusing on LDAPSYNC instead. If you're looking for the discussion on VMMSYNC you can find it here: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/a9ba1efe-b731-4317-9724-a181d6155e3a/entry/Maximo_LDAP_VMMSYNC_Filtering_and_Configuration?lang=en Edit: Missed the section on custom... [More]

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Recently a client contact presented an issue regarding running above report which was timing out (with stuck threads listed in logs) as it was very large. This was later revealed to be due to never running the report in all the years the client has had Maximo installed. The business partner working on behalf of the client, devised a method to avoid time out's by using a where clause and also to run the report in chunks rather than the whole period.... [More]

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Are you new to Maximo Spatial 7.6? No problem - Let's get started To get started, we will go through a few steps on how we can get your Spatial data set up to use Spatial 7.6. First task that I'll cover in this blog will refer to the creating the GIS Objects using the Feature Services. When using Spatial 7.6 - Creating GIS Objects is an important task to be able to get the full functionalities of Maximo Spatial. Creating the Objects used to be a tough task, but with Spatial 7.6 and Feature Services, it's actually very easy! Let me... [More]

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Hey guys! This will be my first blog about Maximo Asset Management and just to give you a heads up, there will be no troubleshooting done here but this will be informational. Here is a question for you, are you constantly monitoring the MAXSESSION table to check UI sessions and server sessions? Then you have come to the right place for a new and useful information!   In Maximo 7.5, the MAXSESSION table is used to track connected user sessions and server sessions (Want to know more about user sessions and server sessions? See the following... [More]

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Now I'm going to upgrade my Maximo Upgrade database. This is a maxdemo database that I upgraded from 6.2.3 a few years ago. I updated it to 7.5.0.6 in March to ready it for the upgrade. I was going to do the upgrade then, but some things came up. I was successful once, but it was not 100% to my liking. I want to be able to show a smooth and simple upgrade. So, here we go. Here is my source configuration: After the date of the screen shot, I upgraded WebSphere 7.0.0.29 to 8.5.5.3 separately (using the Maximo installer packages), and moved... [More]

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