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IBM Maximo Application Suite - Manage Operator patch 9.0.16

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Abstract

On 28 August 2025, IBM released IBM® Maximo® Application Suite Manage Operator patch 9.0.16. As with all patches, it is cumulative. In addition to the new fixes listed here, all fixes from earlier patches for this version are included.

Content

This patch updates Manage to version 9.0.174.
For Industry Solutions Patches, go to:

*Not updated from Operator Patch 9.0.14 in this release.

Manage and Mobile APAR and Known Issue Fixes
When an APAR or Known Issue has Manual Change in the first column, click the link or go to the Manual Changes section for directions.
When an APAR or Known Issue has Behavior Change in the first column, click the link or go to the Behavioral Changes section for information.
When an APAR or Known Issue has Database Change in the first column, click the link or go to the Database Change Details section for information.
APAR Application Name Description
DT209523
Manual Change		 Integration INVTRANS records with ITTTYPE = INSERTITEM, CREATEASSET, etc., are treated as audit records and are not sent through the MXGLTXN object structure, resulting in no outbound transactions.
DT247598 System UI In the Shipment Receiving role-based application, the radio button to reject an Asset does not work as expected.
DT378887 System UI The system distorts the Navigator-with-Search component image after users perform a search.
DT392650 Item Master In Item Master, fetching a record that is part of an Item Assembly Structure with many Items takes longer than expected.
DT392958 Report In upgraded environments, some reports fail to show all expected data.
DT395580
Manual Change		 System UI Adding multiple file attachments in Offerings in Self-Service-Center does not work properly.
DT396189 System UI Downloading .xslx files fails.
DT397530 Mobile In Inspections, the icon used to open the Instructions panel is incorrect.
DT417477 Report In reports generated as PDFs, the barcode provided with Manage (Libre Barcode 128) produces barcodes that cannot be scanned.
DT418107 System UI After a user opens any application, navigating to the Bulletin Board and selecting a record causes the "Common Actions" side menu background color to change from white to black.
DT419513 Graphical Scheduling In Graphical Scheduling - Large projects, using filtering in combination with "Begins with" or "Ends with" displays the results in reverse order.
DT421671 System UI When a User logs out of a Role-Based Application, then logs back in, the session opens in Suite administration instead of Manage.
DT423195 Graphical Scheduling - Large Project The Use the Restrict Work to Dates? checkbox not working in Graphical Scheduling - Large Projects.
DT423863 Inspection When inspection results are created for a work order with multiple associated inspection forms, the REFERENCEOBJECTID values in the INSPECTIONRESULT table do not match the MULTIID values from the MULTIASSETLOCCI table, and changing the work order status to APPR causes duplicate inspection result records to be generated.
DT425148 Operator Manage pods show 1/2 ready when readiness.log is missing or lacks BMXAA6472I, causing false probe failures and routing issues.
DT425249 Work Order Tracking Creating a Work Order with nested Job Plans does not copy attachments from the Job Plan.
DT426420 Spatial When moving around the map, the display shows gray squares.
DT426508 Health Saving a task in the Plans tab of a new work order causes a warning to be written to the log - "BMXAA8229W - Record ASSET : Site=XXX Asset=XXX has been updated by another user. Your changes have not been saved. Refresh the record and try again.".
DT426723 Scheduler Scheduled Start and Finish dates are not updated in the Work Order when Assignments are changed in Graphical Assignment application
DT433459 Report In environments where the System Property mxe.report.birt.PrintSeparateRecord is set to 1, in Assignment Manager, printing a Work Order while starting an assignment causes "Errors encountered. For details of the error note current time and ask your system admin to check server log." to display on the screen, and the Work Order is not printed.
DT435031 Scheduler Graphical Scheduler misallocates non-working time for night shifts crossing midnight, showing inflated availability. Time off from 7pm–7am is applied to the wrong day, leading to scheduling inaccuracies.
DT435365 Spatial Maps in Graphical Assignment do not display Map Services icons.
DT435386 Scheduler Loading the Assignment View tab causes a error when break data exceeds ~70K rows, due to performance limits. This occurs after applying multiple breaks across a long date range.
DT436564 System UI Adding a filtered SharePoint URL as a web page attachment returns unfiltered results.
DT436584 Mobile In Work Order Tracking, opening the results of an Inspection Form affects performance.
DT436714 Mobile In the Inspection Form app, deleting a single question triggers a misleading confirmation message referring to a Question Group.
DT436870 Mobile Selecting All Inspections selects the first fifteen only.
DT436951 Mobile A record cannot be selected when its attribute value is too long to be displayed without truncation.
DT437059 Mobile On an Inspection Form, answering a single-choice response question, then saving the record, the Add Condition button is not active.
DT437380
Manual Change		 Configuration Items The description from the CI specification is deleted on the deletion of the specification from the associated classification.
DT438876 System UI Setting Button Alignment does not work.
DT439254 Spatial If users zoom in too closely on the map tab in a Spatial-enabled app, the basemap disappears and shows a gray background with “Map data not yet available.”
DT439602 Inventory When receiving items from a foreign currency PO, the unit cost shown in Inventory LIFO/FIFO Costs is not consistent with the unit cost shown in Inventory Transactions.
DT439921 System (Object) After a user authenticates successfully, a blank page appears rather than Manage.
DT440155 Inventory usage In the Inventory Usage application, transferring an item between two FIFO-type storerooms with single bins causes the Quantity Received to be a multiple of the actual quantity entered in the Inventory Usage Line.
DT440339 Spatial When the System Property mxe.map.zoomToFeatureOnLoad is set to 1, Spatial-enabled apps do not center the map on the linked record when the Map tab is opened.
DT440576 Escalations In Escalations, using a Relationship with a Condition causes "BMXAA4214E -"An unknown error has occurred. Please contact your system administrator for assistance. Gather the logs from the <HOME> directory and determine where and why the error occurred." to display.
DT442314 Preventive maintenance In the Inventory application, a duplicate reservation is created for Work Order whose PM is associated to a Job Plan with a Nested Job Plan.
DT442688 Job plan In a Manage environment hosted on Db2, a Hazard attached to an Item in Item Master do not display in Job Plan attachments.
DT442706
Manual Change		 Report The Graphical Assignment Labor Monthly format report displays the incorrect time.
DT442708 System UI Heading levels are interpreted incorrectly by Assistive technologies.
DT442767 Scheduler  in Graphical Assignment, a zero hour duration Assignment is not shown with a diamond.
DT443114 Mobile When forcePasswordChange is enabled, Mobile users cannot reset their password.
DT443135 System UI In Operational Dashboards, when editing a dashboard that uses a table widget, moving the widget causes all previously configured columns to disappear.
DT443340 Inventory In the Inventory application, on the Add/Modify Reservation screen, filtering by Reservation Type does not list BACKORDER as an option.
DT443499 Scheduler In Graphical Assignment, the red dotted line indicating the current time in the Gantt view disappears clicking anywhere in the Assignment View.
DT443894 Mobile In Inspection RBA and Inspection Forms, fonts are not aligned across the form.
DT443963 Mobile After assigning a Work Order in Mobile, if that WO's status is changed in Manage, the user cannot change its status, causing a BMXAA4590E error on the device.
DT444360 System UI In environments where the System Property mxe.webclient.tableButtonPlacement is set to 2, some buttons no longer work.
DT444420 System UI Associated Data Sheets on PM Work Orders do not show the "Required?" button as read-only.
DT444438 Purchase orders PR with multiple PO references lose all PO references if one of the POs is revised and its lines deleted.
DT444455 System UI In the Service Request Role-Based Application, Asset Tag barcode scanning does not work.
DT444499 SLA Enabling "Allow Application of One SLA?" in an Organization's SLA Options does not prevent a user from applying more than one SLA in Service Requests.
DT444521 System UI Decorative graphics are read by Assistive technology.
DT444523 System UI Small graphic elements are read by Assistive technology as Link rather than Button.
DT444537 Assets The PM Work Order Generation process does not correctly calculate the Location's PMs and Work Orders when the Location is a Loop Location.
DT444552 Scheduler
Clicking the GANTT tab in a SAAS environments causes a timeout and an error.
DT444781 System UI There is no “Skip to Main content” link available to allow users to bypass repetitive navigation elements and jump directly to the main content of the Manage home page.
DT444880 Mobile The Count label is not updated immediately going from one Inspection Form to another.
DT445779 Operator-Manage Installing Manage 8.7.x using an Operation v9 catalog fails with error validating existing CRs against new CRD's schema for "builddatainterpreters.apps.mas.ibm.com".
DT445990 Mobile In the Inspection Forms application, cannot select the correct document folder.
DT445999 Scheduler Missing indexes on the new Qualification tables can affect performance.
DT446115 System (Object) In Database Configuration, updating a scale value completes with errors and causes the database to be in a bad state.
DT446170 System UI User cannot download or view attachments when 'Use Screen Reader' is enabled for the user
DT446227 Mobile In the Inventory Counting application, Reconciliation does not display items until it is refreshed.
DT446245 Spatial In the Service Address application, clicking "Bring List View features to Results" does not populate the Results tool.
DT446320 Scheduler Changing the value of the QUALMET domain causes an error in creating a new Work Order with a qualification in the Labor section of the Actuals tab: "BMXAA4049E - The value specified exceeds the maximum field length that is allowed for this attribute.".
DT446631 System UI In Mobile Inspections, after batching Inspection Forms in landscape mode, the Search button does not work.
DT446680 System UI Adding a lookup to the priority field, then filtering using the priority field, users cannot reset options and must restart the application.
DT446706 Report Reports do not run after restarting the reporting pod.
DT446721 Mobile After initiating data synchronization to mobile device, NullPointerException errors are written to Manage Logs, affecting performance.
DT446855 Service requests In Service Requests, the assetnum extended drilldown takes the default Insert Site, not the Asset site or SR-specific site.
DT446934 Mobile Mobile intermittently presents a gray screen with a spinning wheel when left in background for some time.
DT446944 Spatial The Spatial print tool generates a PDF that does not match the map's appearance as shown on the Map tab.
DT446961 System UI A PM record with an Asset with ABANDONED status does not generate a Work Order, throwing the error "BMXAA0090E - Asset XXXX is not a valid asset, or its status is not an operating status.".
DT447010 Maintenance Manager Creating a Work Queue and adding a Person Group does not search or filter the exact Person Group.
DT447348 Report In Report Administration, saving a report with a title that has special characters does not decode html entity codes.
DT447381 Scheduler In Graphical Assignment, having the PRESERVESKDDATA flag on causes a save/refresh error "BMXAT0050E - The project data failed to populate into scheduler tables for project.".
IJ39102 Integration Receiving and inspecting in separate transactions via MIF leads to bad data. See Adding meter readings using the REST API for important information.
IJ47735 Automation Scripts In offering, when accessing MboSet in ADDTOCARTSCRIPT, If the accessed MboSet has an Object-Init Script, the error from my ADDTOCARTSCRIPT is not shown.
IJ51235 Work Order Tracking In Work Order Tracking, when Automatically Create Usage Documents for New Reservations is enabled, creating a Work Order with Tasks that have planned Material creates multiple Inventory Usage Records.
DT438111 Reports Manual authentication is required to run Cognos Reports.
APAR Change instructions
DT209523
Follow these steps.

1. Navigate to System Configuration -> Platform Configuration -> Automation Scripts
2. From More Actions, select Create Script for Integration.
3.  In the Create Script for Integration dialog, under Integration Details;
4. Select Object Structure (the default).
5. For Object Structure, select MXGLTXN.
6. Select Outbound Definition
Use this script:

def skipMbo(ctx):
    mbo=ctx.getMbo();
    if mbo is not None:
        owner=mbo.getOwner()
        if owner is not None:
            name=owner.getName()
            if name == "INVTRANS":
                if owner.getString("TRANSTYPE")=="INSERTITEM":
                    ctx.process()
7. Click Create.
DT395580
 There are two options to execute the manual steps required for this APAR. Both start with steps 1 to 4.
If you wish to limit this behavior to Self-Service only, go to step 5 in the Option 2 section.
1. Open Application Designer.
2. Click Export System XML.
3. Click LIBRARY. Save the file as library.xml.
4. Open the library.xml file in a text editor.
Option 1
5.  Search for the following dialog. At the end, add parentsave="true"
<dialog beanclass="psdi.webclient.beans.doclinks.AddDocLinksDrBean" designermboname="DOCLINKS" id="draddnewattachmentfile" label="Create a File Attachment" relationship="DOCLINKS">
6. Save library.xml
7. In Application Designer, import the modified library.xml.
8. Save changes.
Option 2
5. Search for the following dialog.
<dialog beanclass="psdi.webclient.beans.doclinks.AddDocLinksDrBean" designermboname="DOCLINKS" id="draddnewattachmentfile" label="Create a File Attachment" relationship=""DOCLINKS"">
6. Copy the and paste the dialog beneath it.
7. Change the id parameter in the new dialog to a unique value.
8. Add parentsave="true" to the end of the new dialog.
9. Save library.xml.
10. Go back to Application Designer.
11. Click Export System XML.
12. Click MENUS. Save the file as menus.xml
14. Open the menus.xml file in a text editor.
15. Search for <menu id="DRATTACHMENTS">
16. Copy and paste the menu item below the first one.

17. Update the value of event for the menuitem with id="raddnewfile" to the id name of the dialog created in steps 6-8.
18. Change all id parameters in the new dialog to unique values.
19. In library.xml, update the menutype attribute on the attachment tag to match the value of the menu created in the previous steps. For example:

<attachments align="left" event="drviewattachments" id="defnaCR_sr2_attach" label="User Provided Attachments" labelcss="pmscoffcat_text_node_left" menutype="updated_value"/>
20. Save library.xml.
21. In Application Designer, import the modified library.xml and menus.xml files.
22. Save changes.
DT437380
To add new message, follow these steps:
1. Log into Manage as an administrative user.
2. Go to Database Configuration.
3. In the More Actions section, click Messages.
4. Click the New Row icon (plus sign inside a circle)
5. For the new row, enter these details
Message Group configdb
Message Key verifyAssetAttributeIdOnCISpec
Display Method TEXT
Message ID Prefix BMXAA
Message ID Suffix I
 Display ID? checked
Value Verifying whether CISPEC records have a configured assetattributeid.
Button Yes or no? unchecked
Button Ok checked
6.  Click OK.
7. Add a second message
Message Group configdb
Message Key assetattributeidIsNotAssociated
Display Method MSGBOX
Message ID Prefix  BMXAA
Message ID Suffix E
Display ID? checked
Value One or more CISPEC records don't have assetattributeid configured. Manually update the records to correctly map each assetattributeid to the corresponding asset attribute in the Asset Attribute table.
Button Yes or no? unchecked
Button Ok checked
Button Cancel OK.
8. Click OK.
DT437115
1. In Manage, go to System Configuration → Platform Configuration → Database Configuration.
2. From More Actions, select Messages.
3. Click New Row.
4. For the new row, enter these details
Message Group cannotDeleteSite
Display Method MSGBOX
Message  BMXAA
Message  contract
Message Key cannotDeleteSite
ID Prefix E
Display ID? checked
Value Sites can be deleted only when the status of the contract \{0} is Waiting on Approval or Draft.
Button OK checked
5. Click OK.
DT442706
From the maxinst pod get the following file: reports/birt/reports/RLASSIGN/galabor_monthly_format.rptdesign
Use Report Administration to import this report.

[{"Type":"MASTER","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB77","label":"Automation Platform"},"Business Unit":{"code":"BU048","label":"IBM Software"},"Product":{"code":"SSRHPA","label":"IBM Maximo Application Suite"},"ARM Category":[{"code":"a8m3p000000hB0QAAU","label":"Manage"}],"ARM Case Number":"","Platform":[{"code":"PF025","label":"Platform Independent"}],"Version":"9.0.0"}]

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Modified date:
23 September 2025

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