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IBM Maximo Application Suite - Manage Component patch 8.7.2

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Abstract

On 30 November 2023, IBM released IBM® Maximo® Application Suite Manage Component patch 8.7.2.

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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
DT179014 System UI The Button Alignment setting is ignored.
DT196079 System UI In the Budget Monitoring application, Budget Lines shows "Labor Amounts" as a horizontal label while other labels are vertical.
DT213085 Service Request Changing the Manage profile to another language, Maximo Mobile menu still display "Assets" and "Service Request" in English.
DT214233 System UI In the Job Plan application, some fields are not aligned.
DT214995 System Object In manual cert mode, the Manage entitymgr-ws operator can recognize the manualCerts mode, however it doesn't update the Routes. Deleting the entitymgr-ws pod and waiting for reconciliation still does not update the Routes.
DT216046 Work Order Tracking Duplicating a Work Order with its Hierarchy, when SAFETYPLANID field has a value in all Work Orders in the Hierarchy, results in error BMXAA4211E - "Database error number -803 has occurred when operating on WOSAFETYPLAN.".
DT224315 System UI In the Assets application, several fields are misaligned.
DT225631 Report Manage Users should automatically be approved for launching to Cognos from Manage. Only local users need to be "synced" from Manage to CP4D.
DT225634 Report The display name of the CP4D user, not their CP4D username, is used to filter data when a report is executed.
DT228965 System UI In the Work Order application, when the length of the ASSETNUM field is large, the Hover Over icon merges with the data displayed in the text box.
DT237643 Graphical Work Week Work Order Scheduled Start and End dates are not updated when changed in the Graphical Work Week view.
DT238165 Technician When reporting item consumption in a work order in Maximo Technician, the lookup displays items that exist in multiple organizations.
DT238493 Database configuration A user is unable to access Database Configuration when the Maxadmin security group is NOT independent of other groups.
DT239156 Technician A user cannot clear lookup values.
DT239443 Mobile In Mobile SR, creating records does not release all datasource resources, leading to orphaned datasources.
DT239591 Technician The Gauge meter reading entries cannot accept 0 (zero) as a valid value in the UI: the button is not modifiable.
DT240360 System UI In the Roles application in Manage, the ‘Value' field has a ‘Go to People’ hyperlink with text displayed in traditional Chinese instead of simplified Chinese.
DT240711 Mobile In Maximo Mobile, Rotating Asset does not clear when a Storeroom does not have any Rotating Assets.
DT240728 System UI Dialog scrollbars and some content are off screen.
DT241161 Mobile When a user views details in an Inventory Count Filtered Search, the list clears.
DT241227 System Object MAS Core statuses of TIMED_OUT and DELETE_TIMED_OUT prevent user's information from being accurately loaded or synchronized in the Application system.
DT241756 Technician When a user selects a Craft record from a different Organization, the error BMXAA2634E - "Mismatches between labor, craft, skill level, vendor and contract are not allowed" displays.
DT241758 Mobile The "Record XXX is not defined in the domain XXX" error causes Go To Record action to freeze the SR application
DT242807 Spatial The Maximo classic map is taking too long to open. This fix is required for DT242812.
DT242813 Mobile In an environment where, in the WOSTATUS domain, the standard record with the value COMP is deleted and replaced by another value, tasks cannot be completed in the Mobile Technician application.
DT242886 Count Book If a user's initial Person record is deleted, they cannot create a Count Book record.
DT242895 System UI The System Property mxe.webclient.tabBreadCrumbs does not work in Manage 8.x.
DT243010 Technician Creating a Work Order in the TECHMOBILE application causes the Asset to show as down until the mobile device synchronizes to the server.
DT243176 Mobile In a Maximo Mobile 8.10 interim fix 4 environment, going to Inspections creates duplicate requests.
DT243253 Mobile Answering questions on an Inspection Form causes transactions to build up in the queue. When more transactions exist, the records are sent more slowly to the server.
DT243329 Mobile Mobile Service Requests ticket template attributes not resizing correctly on devices
DT243642 Security Groups Users created with LDAPSync are not mapped to Security Groups.
DT244333 Technician In Maximo Mobile, changing the Location on a Work Order does not clear the Asset field.
DT244448 Technician In Maximo Mobile, a new Meter Reading with the same value as a previous reading is not added.
DT244928 Mobile In Mobile Technician, adding an Item with a default vendor to a Work Order results in error BMXAA2992E - "Cannot specify a vendor and a storeroom.".
DT245418 Mobile When the System Property mxe.mobile.inspection.features.savegeolocation is set to 0, the Role Based Applications Inspection App tries to access the user's location.
DT246699 Mobile Navigator upgrade fails.
IJ35278
Manual Change
Purchase orders Receipt Quantity is not updated under View Inventory Transaction after Purchase Order revisions.
IJ38170 Inventory usage If an Item becomes Rotating in an open Inventory Transfer, the Rotating Asset cannot be associated with an Inventory Usage record.
IJ39889 Work Order Tracking Details of a Linear Asset are not copied to a follow-up Work Order.
IJ40733 Work Order Tracking In the Manage Inventory work center, assets previously issued on work orders and returned are not available anymore for Pick, Stage, Issue.
IJ42204 Location In the Locations application, the "Inspect Asset Details' option results in error BIMAA0007E - "Internal Error.".
IJ42269 Conditional Monitoring In Condition Monitoring, the Job Plan field's "Go To Job Plans" menu option does not open the Job Plan.
IJ42356 Work Order Tracking Work Orders cannot be saved when the WOACTIVITY.WONUM field is hidden.
IJ42396 Budget Monitoring Clicking the New Row button in the Manage Rule dialog box does not work in the Budget Monitoring application.
IJ42466 Item Master When an Item is added to a Storeroom, the "Rotating" field becomes read only.
IJ44238 System UI Radio Button group alignment is lost when the window is resized.
IJ44250 Assets Event Listener, Message Tracking, and Message Store do not work for the ASSETANCESTOR object.
IJ45265 Assets If the Location is in a Primary System, then it cannot have more than one Rotating Asset based on Rotating Item mentioned in the Rotating Item field in the Location record. If a user tries to associate more than one Asset with the Location, the message BMXAA0137E - "Location XXXXX is currently occupied by Asset YYYYY" appears. The same is not true for non-Primary Location, which can have more than one Rotating Assets.
IJ46610 Report Downtime report is not calculated correctly when the Shifts overlap.
IJ46642 Purchase orders A Purchase Order generated by the "Create PO" action in Purchase Requisition is missing the value from PRLINE.PLIN3.
IJ46709 System UI In Start Center, Cognos Analytics does not launch from the Favorites Applications Portlet.
IJ47115 Integration In cases where two people have the same display name, the ReportedByID populates incorrectly in the Service Request application.
IJ47346 Login Using paths /maximo/ui/login/ and /maximo/ui/webclient/login/logout.jsp in URL causes request loops.
IJ47416 Work Order Tracking Performing Remove Work Plan on a Work Order causes the Classification also to be removed from the Work Order.
IJ47624 Purchase orders When a PO is created from an RFQ or PR, the sequence numbers for the terms in the "Terms and Conditions" tab of the PO are incorrect.
IJ47651 Purchase orders When "Copy PR Line Items to PO" is used, changing the status to APPR results in error BMXAA3279E.
IJ47674 Scheduler An error is thrown when a field is made read-only by a Data Restriction and then applied to a Security Group.
IJ47793 System UI The "Standard Start Center" link that displays when you click "Mobile Start Center" is difficult to distinguish against the background.
IJ47852 Graphical Assignment In Graphical Assignment, no routes are being displayed when multiple queries are defined.
IJ47930 Scheduler Graphical Scheduling Large Projects is incorrectly associating non-related parent/child records when the fields are sorted.
IJ47934 Automation Scripts An Automation Script does not fire with ASSETSPEC.NUMVALUE changes.
IJ48019 Report Maximo reports are not displayed in Cognos Viewer version 11.1.7 or later.
IJ48024 Crontask set up Emails sent by the PMWoGen Cron Task are in English when the Cron Task user does not have English set as their default language in their Profile.
IJ48272 System UI A user cannot select multiple records in Computers (DPLDASSET).
IJ48421 Assets Issuing an Item results in error BMXAA4214E - "An unknown error has occurred.".
IJ48634 Manage Inspections Forms On an Inspection Form, the sequence of questions in a group is incorrect.
IJ48681 Purchase orders The Currency Code in distributed transactions is not populated correctly when the PONUM exists in multiple Sites.
IJ48733 Graphical Scheduling - Large Project In Graphical Scheduling - Large Projects, Work View, the Gantt view will not display text of a Work Order description after a "|" character in the description.
IJ48762 Graphical Assignment In Graphical Assignment and Graphical Scheduler, launching Quick Query Builder for a Work Order query is slow.
IJ48909 Quick Reporting In Quick Reporting, clicking "Stop Timer" when the related Work Order includes a Task, results in error BMXAA2554E - "Timer not started.".
IJ49013 Map manager Query By Attributes Feature Layer List displays Behind box.
IJ49131 System UI Table download in Maximo does not work when globaldir prop is set.
Manual Changes
APAR Change instructions
1. Open Application Designer.
2. Click Select Action.
3. Export and Save LIBRARY.XML.
4. Open LIBRARY.XML in a text editor

5. After that line, add this attribute to the id.

<textboxdataattribute="RECEIPTQUANTITY" id="invtrans_viewtrans_receipts_grid3_1_1_matrectrans_1_grid23_90" label="Receipt Quantity"/>
6. Save the XML.
7. In Application Designer, import the XML using Import Application Definition.

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 8.7.2
  • Click Save.

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Document Information

Modified date:
27 December 2023

UID

ibm17084060