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IBM Maximo Application Suite - Manage Component patch 8.6.3

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Abstract

On 27 July 2023, IBM released IBM® Maximo® Application Suite Manage Component patch 8.6.3.

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.
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.
APAR Application Name Description
DT208171 Conduct Inspections Answers disappearing on Role Base Inspection application.
DT208270 Database configuration Custom Views cause the Configdb process to throw errors BMXAA0346I, BMXAA6835E, and BMXAA6819I.
DT213715 Technician Mobile shows Materials from a different Site.
DT214028 System UI The presence of a vertical scroll bar in applications' list tabs makes it difficult to click 'Add to Bookmarks.'
DT214200 Technician Maximo Mobile: Unable to change the Status for Work Orders created without visiting the work order list.
DT215425 Technician Mobile - Date and Month value is swapped when loading finishes in the Work Order detail view.
DT221826 Technician The date shows the previous date in Labor Transactions.
DT222001 Technician Maximo Mobile - Attachments are showing from the previous work order
DT222019 Technician Downloading WOCOST records runs more slowly than expected.
DT222125
Behavior Change
System Object OAuth provider that does not issue an expiry period when an access token is issued results in an NPE.
DT222135 System UI The mxevent value "toggledetailstate" is not working properly.
DT222668 Technician In the WorkOrderDetailsController.js file, there are incorrect or misleading code comments.
DT223004 Technician Editing a Failure Report generates the informational message "BMXAA0018I - The report is complete.".
DT223537 Conduct Inspections Creating an inspection from Mobile does not display inspection form numbers to select in Template lookup.
DT238867 Install/Upgrade Upgrading database generates error message Re-Encrypt:status:failure The old encryption keys does not match what the database currently uses.
IJ30653 Email Listeners When settings are misconfigured, the OAUTH error message is ambiguous.
IJ31009 Labor Labor hours are not calculated correctly on a Work Order.
IJ34642 Report When the System Property mxe.db.fetchStopLimitEnabled is set to 0 and there is sorting on a non-persistent attribute of a table in a dialog, the filter on the table doesn't return any records.
IJ36230 Report A user cannot schedule a recurring Crontask for the last day of the month.
IJ36902 Inventory usage Rotating Asset is not decommissioned on changing the Inventory Usage record to "Shipped".
IJ38794 Purchase orders Deleting a PO Line on a PNDREV Purchase Order reopens the associated RFQ even if the PNDREV PO is cancelled.
IJ38810
Manual Change
Ad Hoc Reporting For scheduled AdHoc report, the PDF received through email shows deformed non-English characters, and also demands to download "Extended Asian fonts" to Acrobat Reader.
IJ39418 Job Plans Labor rows associated with a task do not appear in the Plans tab when the record is saved adding a Job Plan to a Work Order.
IJ41484 Work Order Tracking Changing the status of a Work Order with an open PO causes the BMXAA4577W warning to appear. When the user clicks cancel and changes the status again, the warning does not appear again.
IJ42275 Purchase requisitions Attachments are still visible on a PR after the PR lines that are copied from DR are deleted.
IJ44537
Manual Change
Inventory Actual cost on Invoices are showing as $0 cost when they are staged first.
IJ44864 Automation Scripts To call the Sql Format setString() method in a customization, a publicly accessible modifier with setBoolean(), setLong(), and so on, must be consistent.
IJ45252 Service Level Agreements (SP) The level applied for a condition report does not appear in the "SLA History" section on the "View History" dialog.
IJ45269
Manual Change
Report The calibration data sheet report shows unrelated function checks for asset functions.
IJ45651 Assignment Manager Assigning Labor to Work Order produces a Null pointer exception in the log.
IJ46226 Purchase requisitions The PRLINE.ENTERBY is set to USERID instead of PERSONID when the PR is created during the reorder process.
IJ46393 Location The new datatype of DATE that was added to the Specification attributes is always available to edit after save.
IJ46410
Manual Change
Location Inconsistent behavior on how Precaution values are saved in Assets applications when compared to the Locations application.
IJ46606 Email Listeners Error BMXAA8435E in Email Listener when an email is sent in HTML format.
IJ46742 Calibration Calibration Tolerance values are not updating correctly.
IJ46758 Crontask set up The ROLL cron task does not deactivate once the scheduler record is set to no longer be rolling.
IJ46759 KPI Manager Unable to open or update KPI after upgrade from 7.6.1.2 to 7.6.1.3.
IJ46783 Work Order Tracking Maximo incorrectly evaluates Premium Pay Rate when Premium Rate Type is set to MULTIPLIER.
IJ46848 Conditional Expression manager Conditions cannot be deleted when E-audit is enabled on the CONDITION table.
IJ46849 Graphical Work Week In the Graphical Work Week application, the Work Order information, without the dates filled in, is not shown in the graph.
IJ46853 Condition Codes Duplicate Condition Codes are displayed in Inventory Balances. Selecting one in Inventory Costs results in error BMXAA4129E - "The record for Item=item, Storeroom=storeroom, Bin=, Lot=, Condition Code=cc, Site=site, Item Set=set already exists. Ensure that the key value for the given record is unique.".
Manual Changes
APAR Change instructions
Existing AdHoc reports can be corrected by selecting the edit button from the report list, then resaving the ad hoc report using the Run and Save Completed Report (no actual edits are required to pick up the change).
This scenario is only relevant if the system property mxe.app.invuse.allowNonZeroCostOnConsCapAsset is set to 1.
The Calibration Data Sheet report need to be imported. It can be imported using Maximo UI. Copy the following file from manage env and import it using Report administration.
/opt/IBM/SMP/maximo/reports/birt<maximo_root>\reports\birt\reports\PLUSDSPLAN\calibration_datasheet.rptdesign"

 
Follow the steps shown below.
1. Open Location app in Application Designer
2. Select Safety tab and find Hazard and Precaution tab group.
3. Open properties of Hazard ""multiparttextbox"" inside Details section.
4. Click on Advance tab in Multipart Textbox Properties dialog.
5. Select Refresh Children option in Change Event select box.
6. close the dialog and click on save.
7. Verify the fix in Location Application.

 
Behavioral Changes
APAR Change instructions
Export securgroup presentation.
Find tag sigmain_buttons_2 and comment out or remove it.
Load presentation to Manage.

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 8.6.3
  • Click Save.

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Document Information

Modified date:
21 February 2024

UID

ibm17012817