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IBM Maximo Application Suite - Manage Component patch 8.7.11

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Abstract

On 28 August 2024, IBM released IBM® Maximo® Application Suite Manage Component patch 8.7.11. 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.

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*Not updated from Patch 8.7.10 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.
 
APAR Application Name Description
DT211235 Graphical Resource View The Graphical Resource View for the shift and availability information is incorrectly displayed when the shift spans over 7 days.
DT224206 Work Order Tracking Creating a Work Order takes a long time when full table scans are required.
DT378554 Mobile Using different relationships for Asset Specifications can impact download performance.
DT380831
Behavioral Change
Linear Assets When a user changes a Linear Asset Feature type from LINEAR to POINT, the range does not change.
DT380867 Asset Management/ Assets Users cannot delete an Asset that, in another site, uses the same Assetnum and whose transaction is registered in MATUSETRANS table.
DT383048 System UI The new Custom page header functionality caused an action no longer to be visible in the Work Order Tracking application. 
DT387131 Organizations Creating an Organization does not also create the COUNTBOOKNUM autonumber.
DT387292 Database configuration A missing Index on PLUSCASSETSTATUS causes Instana Dashboard SQL Performance Issues.
DT387458 Mobile On iOS devices, the barcode scanner camera does not close
DT387481 Mobile Problem, Cause and Remedy do not display in Mobile 8.11 on a non-English database.
DT389388 People Cannot add multiple email addresses and phone numbers to Person records.
DT389877 Mobile The barcode scanner label "Place a code inside the rectangle to scan it" is not translated.
DT390933 Operational Dashboard (Maintenance manager) In Operational Workflow, users receive a BMXAA5426E error clicking the Route button for a Workflow Assignment.
DT391213 Mobile On an offline device, saving a Mobile Follow-Up Work Order with a Failure Reporting entry generates the error "BMXAA4195E - A value is required for the Work Order field on the WORKORDER object.".
DT391302 Mobile Users cannot create follow up Work Orders when there are multiple default statuses for WAPPR.
DT392328 Inspections Scrolling through multiple records on the Inspections List causes a memory issue.
DT392429 Mobile Foundation Mobile 8.11 - Changing the Default Insert Site does not refresh the mxapiorganization defaultSetDS.
IJ46175 Work Order Tracking In Work Order Tracking, entering WPLABOR causes the system to update the Schedule Finish Date to the same day as the Schedule Start Date.
IJ46845 Crafts In the Crafts application, creating a Craft results in error "BMXAA2528E - The Combination of craft, skill level, vendor and contract is not valid.".
IJ47665 Classifications Creating a Work Order from an SR does not copy Classification attributes of the data type DATE.
IJ48300
Behavioral Change
Count Book A Count Book with an OBSOLETE item can be duplicated.
IJ48802 Labor In an environment where the base language is Japanese, changing Labor records' status from the List view doesn't work.
IJ49720 Linear Assets Opening the Features tab within the Asset application is extremely slow when there are many Features on or shared with the current Asset record.
IJ50293 Security Groups In the Asset application, changing Status from the List view results in error BMXAA0029E - "You are not authorized to perform this action for this record.".
IJ50900 Integration When Login tracking is enabled, API calls can delete system account users.
IJ51096
Behavioral Change
Application Designer Unnecessary spaces are added to the STADDRUNITNUM field on the SERVICEADDRESS object when the value contains alphanumeric characters and ends with a numeric value.
IJ51097 Integration When a MIF Processing Rule is invoked by an Event Listener to copy a NULL value from a persistent field defined as DATETIME to a non-persistent field defined as DATETIME, Maximo throws the exception BMXAA4143E - "The date format is not valid.".
IJ51159 Receiving When a user does not enter a PONUM in the Invoice main application, no Cost Variance lines are generated in the Receiving application.
IJ51268 Database configuration Saving Database Configuration causes error BMXAA0652E - "The total length of columns in an index cannot exceed 120000.".
DT245649 Crews In the Preventive Maintenance application, there is no validation between Crew Work Group and Crew.
DT380958 Job Plans In the Job Plan application, navigating to a nested Job Plan in Draft status does not take the user to the Job Plan. Instead the user is taken to the List view.
DT386713 System UI Users cannot open as many tabs in a browser session as specified by the System Property mxe.webclient.maxUISessionsPerHttpSession.
DT386740 Inventory usage Item Reservation for Work Order is not working properly.
DT390761 Generic fix Email Listener Fails with Workflow LSNRBP: NoClassDefFoundError: psdi.plusp.app.ticket.PlusPSR_Stub error. This type of error may occur in other contexts when a stub class is no longer present in a build.
DT390996 Preventive maintenance A PMForecast crontask sction stops when an unexpected exception is encountered.
DT391294 Application Designer In Application Designer, when an application's radio button group input mode is set to 'Required', its label does not display.
DT392061 System UI In Long Descriptions, saving an URLs with parentheses strips out the link.
DT392258 Generic fix Manage applications List tabs do not show Row highlighting functionality.
DT393083 Mobile The Save or Discard popup does not display returning to the Work Order details page on the Edit Work Order page.
DT393366 Mobile Using the Inventory Receiving application results in a null pointer exception error.
DT393476 Mobile In the Inspections app, displaying a record and then return to the record list does not purge record details from memory.
DT393973 Mobile In SRMOBILE, when users remove a previous Location, they cannot select a new one.
IJ36905 Graphical Work Week In scheduling applications, the tooltip for the Duration field is inconsistent.
IJ48715 Graphical Scheduling When Roll Project Action is executed in Graphical Scheduling, Maximo is setting the Start and End Dates to midnight because that represents the start of the day.
IJ49767 Item Assembly Structures Clicking Apply Item Assembly Structure causes an unwanted Location to be created.
IJ50249 System UI In Technician, creating a follow-up Work Order does not bring the user to the new Work Order.
IJ50710 Condition Codes In the Item Master application, the Condition Codes Select Value look-up lists duplicate Condition Codes.
IJ51329 Linked Documents/Attached Documents The pipe character is stripped out of URL-type attachments.
IJ51509
Behavioral Change
Inventory usage When a user re-approves a Reservation, the issued qty is not taken into account.
DT395495 System UI Most keyboard shortcuts do not work.
DT393609 Mobile In Inspections, filtering by location does not display all inspections on the device.
DT391205 Graphic Work Week In a Db2 environment, opening Gantt View takes longer than expected.
IJ51756 Scheduler In Graphical Assignment (Work View), a user cannot hyperlink to an industry solution Work Order application from the task as you can from the Work Order application.
Behavioral Changes
APAR Change instructions
Now, if you want to change feature from "LINEAR" to "POINT" or vice versa, you are not allow to make any changes if that Feature is associated with any Asset. You can only make changes when there is no association of that Feature with any Asset.
Now it is not possible to duplicate a countbook which contains item in PENDING, PLANNING or OBSOLETE status.
Added a System Property called mxe.app.srvad.storeStreetAddressUnitNumAsitis which determine how the value in STADDRUNITNUM is stored in the database.
  • mxe.app.srvad.storeStreetAddressUnitNumAsitis is set to 0 (default): The field value is stored with original logic,  with spaces between alphabetic and numeric parts.
  • mxe.app.srvad.storeStreetAddressUnitNumAsitis is set to 1: The field value is as it is.
Modified the description for System Property mxe.app.inventor.useIssuedQtyAgainstReservations.
  • mxe.app.inventor.useIssuedQtyAgainstReservations is set to 0 (default): It will only consider the quantity issued against WPMaterial's reservation. It will not consider the quantity issued by manual entries (for that item)
  • mxe.app.inventor.useIssuedQtyAgainstReservations is set to 1: It will consider the quantity issued by manual entries (for that item) and the quantity issued against the WPMaterial's reservation (added by using select reserved items option) from the Actuals tab against the planned items.

Changelog
12 Sep 2024: Added Known Issue DT395495.

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Document Information

Modified date:
17 June 2025

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ibm17166255