IBM®
Maximo® Application Suite is an asset
management tool that delivers a comprehensive view of all asset types, their conditions and
locations, and the work processes that support them. Maximo Application Suite provides you with optimal planning,
control, audit, and compliance capability.
- Product name change
- In Maximo Application Suite, IBM
Maximo Asset Management is renamed IBM
Maximo Manage. The industry solutions and add-ons
that are also included in Maximo Application Suite
are also renamed.
- Learn more about the product name changes for the industry
solutions and add-ons.
- Deploying and activating Maximo Manage
- Maximo Manage
is an application in Maximo Application Suite.
Maximo Application Suite is a suite of asset
management and data analytic offerings. Maximo Application Suite is offered as a customer-managed
product on Red Hat®
OpenShift® and as an IBM Managed solution.
- To access and use Maximo Manage, you deploy
and activate Maximo Manage in Maximo Application Suite.
- Learn more about deploying
Maximo Manage.
- Upgrading to Maximo Manage 8.0
- You can upgrade to Maximo Manage 8.0 from
Maximo
Asset Management. Before you
upgrade, you must have Maximo
Asset Management 7.6.1.2 installed.
- Learn
more about upgrading to Maximo Manage.
- Maintaining calibration assets and standards
- Calibration is included in the base entitlement for Maximo Manage and no
longer requires an additional license or install. When you deploy Maximo Manage, calibration
functionality is also included.
- Learn more about
managing calibration assets and standards.
- Mantaining linear assets
- Linear is included in the base entitlement for Maximo Manage and no
longer requires an additional license or install. When you deploy Maximo Manage, linear
functionality is also included.
- Learn more about
linear asset management.
- Planning and scheduling work
- Scheduler is included in the base entitlement for Maximo Manage and no
longer requires an additional license or install. When you deploy Maximo Manage, scheduler
functionality is also included.
- Learn more about
planning and scheduling work.
- Maximo Mobile
- Maximo Mobile is a
next-generation mobile application platform that is supported by Maximo Manage. Maximo Mobile allows users use mobile
devices to securely access Maximo Manage
functionality. The Maximo Mobile
apps provide a mobile user with capabilities to manage work and conduct inspections both when the
app is connected and disconnected.
- Learn more about Maximo Mobile.
- User management
- Users are added and authenticated in Maximo Application Suite. Users who have an entitlement to
Maximo Manage are
synchronized to Maximo Manage.
- If you are upgrading from Maximo
Asset Management to Maximo Application Suite, user
records in the Maximo
database are imported by Maximo Application Suite
if they do not exist there or if they are not managed by an identity provider.
- Learn more about user
management.
- License type updates can be sent to Maximo Application Suite when authorizations change or when
the calculated license type has a different entitlement value in Maximo Manage.
- Learn more about updates to license types
- Security groups
- Authorization enables access to applications, application actions, and data in Maximo Manage. Authorization is provided by assigning users to one or more security groups in Maximo Manage. You can create security groups in Maximo Manage. If you manage users in
an LDAP user registry, you create groups in the user registry and synchronize the data to Maximo Application Suite so that it can be synchronized to
Maximo Manage. Map your LDAP
groups to Maximo Manage
security groups before you synchronize them to the suite.
- Learn more about security group synchronization and default assignments.
- Logging
- Maximo Manage server logs
are written to standard output. You can view or process log output using various tools, such as an
aggregation of logs in an OpenShift
cluster-level logging stack.
- Learn more about viewing and processing logs.
- Electronic signature
- Electronic signature keys must conform to the same rules as product passwords. Any key that is
manually created or automatically generated from a reset action is validated by using the rules for
user passwords, such as password length or excluded words.
- Learn more
about electronic signature rules and verification.
- Kafka updates
- You can browse message content in a Kafka queue using a REST API that the product provides.
Browse message content to analyze it or to troubleshoot processing.
- Learn more about browsing Kafka queues and see sample REST
API requests.
- To reduce the possibility of duplicate message processing, Maximo Manage attempts to keep its
offsets synchronized with the offsets that are managed by Kafka. You can reset offsets in
Maximo Manage if they are not
synchronized with the offsets that are managed by Kafka.
-
Learn
more about managing offset values in Maximo Manage.
- To use Kafka
features in the product, you must obtain and configure a Kafka server instance of the
provider. The Kafka
server that you obtain must be compatible with the Kafka 2.5.0 client
libraries.
- Other integration updates
-
- Use REST API instead of RMI
- You use REST API instead of Remote Method Invocation (RMI) for interactions with the product
from custom extensions or external applications. RMI is not supported in the product.
- Learn
more about using or transitioning to use REST API instead of RMI.
- API key authentication for REST API and integration features
-
API keys for user and group synchronization are generated for you. If you interact with REST API
or machine-to-machine integration activities, you must configure an API key. The API key is
configured in the Administration Work Center of Maximo Manage.
- Added support for the JSON schema in OAS 3.0 documentation
- Complete JSON schema content was added to the OAS 3.0, or Swagger, documentation for the
Maximo Manage APIs. The
existing non-OAS 3.0 JSON schema is still supported.
- Support Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) 1.1 and SOAP 1.2 in same web server instance for a
WebSphere® Application Server Liberty environment
- You can use SOAP 1.1 and SOAP 1.2 with the Java™™ API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) endpoint handler to exchange messages in a WebSphere Application Server Liberty environment.
- Learn more about using one or both versions of SOAP as a transport protocol in the same web service
instance.
- New batch parameter to support processing large outbound messages
- You can set a batch size parameter to break up large outbound messages into multiple
transactions of the size that you specify. Set the batch size in the Data
Export window of the publish channel.
- New location for REST API documentation
- The documents and videos about REST API are now in the Internet of Things community.
- See and bookmark the new location for REST API documentation.
- API key support for legacy APIs
- API keys are supported if you are working with legacy APIs. Legacy APIs are APIs that became
available in product versions before Maximo
Asset Management 7.1.
- Form data support using the HTTP handler
- In the integration framework, the HTTP handler now supports a POST of form data, in addition to
existing support for JSON and XML data.
- Support for nested representation of hierarchical object structures in messages
- You can export a nested JSON representation of an object structure and all of its descendant
objects by selecting the Complete Hierarchy option for outbound messages.
Object structures that were exported as complete hierarchies can be imported as complete
hierarchies.
- Scripting point for Maximo Manage roles
- A scripting point is available to define custom roles and automate communications to users who
are associated with the roles.
- See an example of the scripting point in action.
- Sequences for SQL Server
- Sequences are database objects that automatically generate unique key values or caches of
multiple values. Sequence caches might improve system performance.
- Learn more about sequences for SQL Server.