Language support

Maximo® Manage is available in a number of languages. You can specify languages when you activate the application.

The following settings control the languages that are displayed in the user interface:
Browser language setting
If content is available for the language that users select for their browser, the application shows that language. If the language that is selected in the browser is not available, the application displays the base language.
Preferred language setting
In IBM® Maximo Application Suite, users can select a preferred locale, language, and time zone when they set up their profile. If you change the user's preferred language setting in Maximo Manage, future synchronizations do not overwrite the setting from Maximo Application Suite.
Application language settings
When Maximo Manage is deployed, you can select a base language, which is the default language for the application. By default, the base language is English. If you select a different language, the language is permanently set as the base language, and you cannot change it in subsequent deployments. If the base language is not specified when the application is deployed, the default value is used instead. If the default value is used, you can change the base language when you redeploy.

The base language can be changed only once. After it is changed, it cannot be changed back to English or any other language.

You can select other languages when you activate the application. You cannot remove languages after the application is activated.

If you use IBM Db2® and plan to install a language other than English, select the checkbox for Db2 Vargraphic when you configure your database.

Although Maximo Application Suite does not support bidirectional languages, Maximo Manage provides language support for bidirectional languages.

To add a language, on the Activation page, in the Base field and the Additional field, select the language code.

Note: If you want to use the database to deploy Maximo Manage only in English, you can choose Latin1_General_CI_AI collate for SQL Server. If you plan, for example to deploy Maximo Manage in Japanese, the choice is Japanese_CI_AI. For more information about which collate to use for each language, see SQL Server documentation. Although SQL Server supports Unicode, Maximo Manage does not support SQL Server, so you cannot set it. Therefore, you cannot deploy Maximo Manage with multiple languages in case those languages require different collates, for example: simplified Chinese and Russian.
The following languages are supported:
  • Arabic (AR)
  • Brazilian Portuguese (PT-BR)
  • Croatian (HR)
  • Czech (CS)
  • Danish (DA)
  • Dutch (NL)
  • English (EN)
  • Finish (FI)
  • French (FR)
  • German (DE)
  • Hebrew (HE)
  • Hungarian (HU)
  • Italian (IT)
  • Japanese (JA)
  • Korean (KO)
  • Norwegian (NO)
  • Polish (PL)
  • Russian (RU)
  • Simplified Chinese (ZH_CN)
  • Slovak (SK)
  • Slovenian (SL)
  • Spanish (ES)
  • Swedish (SV)
  • Traditional Chinese (ZH_TW)
  • Turkish (TR)
Note: Maximo Manage supports Db2, Oracle Database, and Microsoft SQL Server. However, it cannot support Microsoft SQL Server when the database collation is set to Turkish.

Because Maximo Manage does not handle Turkish i characters that are stored in Db2 and Oracle Database, those characters are not supported.