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IBM Maximo Application Suite - Manage Component patch 8.5.4

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Abstract

On 13 April 2023, IBM released IBM® Maximo® Application Suite Manage Component patch 8.5.4.

Content

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.
 
APAR Application Name Description
DT178628 Technician Cache not working well in the Mobile app.
DT179992 Technician Mobile, required fields not working
DT196437 System UI Inventory Usage Pick List field becomes read only when Application is cloned as Mobile.
DT197142 Report Applications using that BIM use become unresponsive.
DT197320 Service Request Error creating an SR with location in Service Request.
DT197350 System UI The Saved Queries dropdown menu does not have the "Show more Queries" indicator.
DT197399 Technician Failure code cannot be changed in Failure Reporting
DT197589 Technician Errors page going in unlimited waiting time.
DT197682 Technician Technician application takes a long time to load the initial data.
DT197816 Technician Maximo Mobile - Start and Stop Icons take overly long to load.
DT198011 Technician No Problem, Cause and Remedy is found on Mobile 8.9 on a DB that is not in English.
DT198184 Service Request The Maximo Mobile Service Requests Role Based application does not ask for confirmation when user cancels a Service Request.
DT198210 Service Request On Category page, the filter is not getting cleared once the page is resumed.
DT198335 Technician In offline mode, creating a work order generates the following errors: BMXAA4590E and BMXAA4673E.
DT198595 Service Request The display name of the logged-in user is not displayed on role-based Service Requests.
DT208126 Technician Error is retained even after the record is corrected.
DT208143 Technician Location does not copy from parent to follow up WO when follow-up WO errors out.
DT208300 System UI In Labor Reporting, changing the date from the auto-populated value resets it to 1/23/0003.
IJ34820 Message Reprocessing Values with ampersand converted to HTML entity in Message Reprocessing.
IJ35203 Safety Deleting a Work Asset from a Safety Plan results in error BMXAA3629E - "Cannot delete work asset, it is linked to other business objects.".
IJ35247 Work Order Tracking Labor costs in the View Costs menu shows 0 when a CREW is selected in the Work Order.
IJ35850 Database configuration In Work Order tracking, the Available Labor dialog within the Assignments tab filters by Work Zone even when the default value of the WORKORDER.FILTERBYWORKZONE attribute is set to 0.
IJ36247 Conduct an Inspection Conduct an Inspection results in error BMXAA2880E - "New reading, new reading date and new reading inspector values are required to enter a new reading." even though a meter reading is not mandatory.
IJ38143 Condition Codes Unable to change the Condition Code transferring a Condition-enabled item.
IJ38852 Assets Wrong Location is selected from Drilldown dialog.
IJ39766 Integration "View Costs" shows incorrect labor costs when an Integration updates the Rate.
IJ39798 Purchase orders Trying to approve an Invoice results in errors BMXAA2013E - "Could not change invoice status to APPR" and BMXAA1993E - "Cannot approve invoice because there are no matching receipts for line 1 of purchase order.".
IJ40378 System UI Downloading to Excel with the Firefox browser opens a blank tab.
IJ40637 Preventive maintenance Changing status from the list tab in Preventive Maintenance doesn't work.
IJ41198 Assets Returning a Rotating Item/Asset from an Inventory type location results in error BMXAA00191 - "The To Parent field is either read only or part of the primary key. You cannot edit this field.".
IJ41272 Application Designer Application Designer does not display the UI for the CREATESR Application.
IJ41572 Inventory Manufacturer, Model or Catalogue Number are sometimes omitted from Purchase Requisitions and Purchase Orders.
IJ41699 Assets Shipment releases Asset with Ancestor but without Parent.
IJ43361 Invoices Quantity on Credit Invoice Line not accepting a negative value.
IJ43815 Work Order Tracking Adding 2 rows on the Materials tab of a Work Order results in error BMXAA3496E - "Trouble processing item. Cause: The balance in the bin will become negative as a result of this transaction.".
IJ43949 Work Order Tracking Entering actual material in Work Order Tracking application for certain items results in a "MaterialsActualsOverwritten" error.
IJ44012 Classifications Adding Classification to an Item results in duplicate specifications and error BMXAA4210E - "Database error number -803 has occurred. Invalid SQL queries are logged in the log file. Check the SQL query to identify the error.".
IJ44348 Classifications Deleting Attributes from a child classification, where the child classification was already cleared from the parent classification, results. in error BMXAA0024E - "The action DELETE is not allowed on object CLASSSPEC.".
IJ44429 Classifications A Classification that has only "USE WITH TOOLITEM" is not listed in the Tools field menu List view.
IJ44449
Manual Change
Conditional Monitoring Condition Monitoring is creating new Work Orders even though there is an existing open Work Order.
IJ44450 Report Set Report file Export Option is not taking effect. File export always shows the default list irrespective of the setting.
IJ44452 Integration Importing with rules when payload contains Y or N for YORN values results in error BMXAA7094E - "The entered value Y is not valid. Enter a valid integer value.".
IJ44511 Integration Calling an HTTP End Point from an Invocation Channel results in error BMXAA1481E - "Cannot deliver the message to the endpoint.".
IJ44530 Integration The system property mxe.int.bidi.ss is not being installed with a null value.
IJ44537
Manual Change
Inventory Actual Cost on Invoices shows as $0 cost when they are staged first.
IJ44545 Preventive maintenance Changing status deletes Forecast Data.
IJ44605 Classifications Maximo is deleting an Object from Attributes when the user is not deleting the Object from Classification.
IJ44644 Chart of Accounts Poor performance when the Chart of Accounts table has large number of records.
IJ44894 Integration Executing "Delete Queue Data" in External System application results in error BMXAA1580E - "A Java Message System (JMS) error occurred. Check the JMS setup in the administrator console for the server.".
IJ44930 Purchase orders Terms in "Terms and Conditions" tab from RFQVendor were not properly copied to a created PO.
IJ45027 System UI Deleting an attachment, then revising a Job Plan, causes a different Job Plan to be displayed.
IJ45070 Graphical Assignment Response is slow using the Unassigned Work tool from the Map view in the Dispatch tab.
IJ45161 System UI The Advanced Search date fields in Service Requests do not work as expected for Spanish locale.
IJ45443 Crontask set up WOGEN where clause causes PMWOGEN crontask not to generate work orders.
IJ45499 Graphical Work Week In Graphical Work Week application, the Graphical View displays Work Tasks from the wrong site.
IJ45500 Calibration Calibration Points can be deleted on WAPPR status, even when "Edit Cal Points" is unchecked for WAPPR status.
IJ45535 System UI Sigoption's Condition is not initially taken into account.
IJ45689 Manage Inventory In the Manage Inventory Work Center, a new count value of 0 cannot be saved.
IJ45739 Graphical Scheduling The Resource Section of the Graphical Scheduling application does not open.
IJ45798 Work Order Tracking Unable to modify existing long descriptions on history work orders due to BMXAA0031E - "The LONGDESCRIPTION object is read only.".
IJ46339 Install/Upgrade Upgrade fails with error BMXAA7968E - "A unique key error with index MAXLOOKUPMAP_NDX1 is defined on table maxlookupmap, columns (TARGET, LOOKUPATTR, TARGETATTR, SOURCE).".
Manual Changes
APAR Behavior Changes
To use this fix, set the new system property mxe.app.measurepoint.considerWOsGeneratedBySameVal to 1.
This scenario is only relevant if the system property mxe.app.invuse.allowNonZeroCostOnConsCapAsset is set to 1.

Manually Installing the Patch
  • Log in to Maximo Application Suite Administration as an administrative user.
  • On the left, click Applications.
  • From the Action menu, select Update configuration.
  • In the dialog box, click the pencil icon on the Components line.
  • Under Activation configuration, click your workspace details page link.
  • From the Action menu, select Update configuration.
  • Under Configurations, click the pencil icon on the Components line.
  • In the Maximo Base line, under new version click the down arrow.
  • Select Version. Enter 8.5.4
  • Click Save.

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Document Information

Modified date:
13 June 2023

UID

ibm16980761