Language support

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

Languages that are displayed in the user interface are controlled by the following settings:

Browser language setting

If content is available for the language that users select for their browser, the application displays that language. If the language that is selected in the browser is not available, the application displays the base language.

Preferred language setting

In the 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 Health, it is not overwritten by a future synchronization from Maximo Application Suite.

Application language settings

When Maximo Health 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. However, if you do not specify a base language when you first deploy the application and use the default value instead, 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, ensure that you select the checkbox for the Db2 Vargraphic field when you configure your database.

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

The following languages are supported:

Note: If you want to use the database to deploy in English only, you can choose Latin1_General_CI_AI collate for SQL Server. If you plan, for example to deploy in Japanese, the choice would be Japanese_CI_AI. Refer to the SQL Server documentation to know what collate to use for each language. While SQL Server might support Unicode, does not support yet for SQL Server, so you cannot set it. Therefore, you cannot deploy with multiple languages in case those languages require different collates, for example: simplified Chinese and Russian.

Language	Language code
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-TW
Slovak	SK
Slovenian	SL
Spanish	ES
Swedish	SV
Traditional Chinese	ZH-TW
Turkish	TR

Note: Maximo Health 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 Health does not handle Turkish i characters that are stored in Db2 and Oracle Database, those characters are not supported.