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IBM Maximo Application Suite - Manage Component patch 8.6.18

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Abstract

On 3 October 2024, IBM released IBM® Maximo® Application Suite Manage Component patch 8.6.18. 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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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
DT242895 System UI The System Property mxe.webclient.tabBreadCrumbs does not work in Manage 8.x.
DT378465 System UI In the Start Center, accented characters in a User's display name do not render correctly.
DT383165 Mobile Users cannot complete an Inspection on a Meter with more than one response field because the timestamp for the Response fields from the parent Inspection is used rather than the response field. The ENTEREDDATE for the INSPFIELDRESULT should have the timestamp from the response moment.
DT386740 Inventory usage Item Reservation for Work Order does not work properly.
DT391911 Scheduler In Graphical Work Week, creating an assignment against a Work Order, or creating an assignment after deleting one, causes error "BMXAA6714E - The data for the next record in the mboset could not be retrieved for the SQL query.".
DT392130 Mobile Mobile starts multiple Labor Transactions (LABTRANS) but does not complete them.
DT392575 Technician In the Technician application, clicking Search All Records returns results without the user entering search criteria.
DT393093 Mobile Users cannot exit "The specified asset is not in the current location" dialog without changing the Asset.
DT393417 Mobile In the Asset application, the Feature Class attribute is always blank.
DT393609 Mobile In Inspections, filtering by location does not display all inspections on the device.
DT393739 Mobile Scenario: A user changes Follow up Work Order data in Mobile. In Work Order Tracking in Manage, a user then changes information in that Follow up Work Order data. However, the changes made in Manage are not downloaded to the mobile device.
DT393804 Mobile Downloading many Assets that have Failure Classes takes longer than expected.
DT393937 Mobile In Inventory Counting, filtering by bin BIN does not work correctly.
DT393973 Mobile In SRMOBILE, when users remove a previous Location, they cannot select a new one.
DT394088 Mobile In the Technician application, user is unable to open Follow-up work orders in offline mode.
DT394310 UI Changing the Hover Window ID in an application from ASSET_RECORDHOVER_1 to ASSET_RECORDHOVER causes the Hover con to display under the item.
DT394317 Mobile Users cannot accept assignments in Maximo Mobile in non-English languages.
DT394406 Mobile In Mobile Technician, clicking Start travel change to Start work does not work as expected.
DT394511 Mobile In Inventory Counting, the Last count and Last count date do not display on the Material Details page.
DT394720 Mobile  A user completing a Multi Asset Loc CI record causes the OSLC error oslc#missingbooleanjsontype to display.
DT394817 Generic The idle timeout auto logout process causes a pop up dialog with Leave Site? to appear in the browser window. Clicking Cancel in that dialog does not work.
DT395020 Integration Saving a Work Order with an attachment causes the error "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."
org/apache/axiom/om/util/Base64
DT395104 Mobile In Conduct Inspections, entering a Meter reading with a domain, the domain value is displayed instead of the domain value's description.
DT395386 Mobile Cannot change the Contact person label for creating a Service Request.
DT396011 Mobile In the Inspection app, a form with single/multiple choice domain is in alphanumeric order, not numeric order.
DT396051 Work Order Tracking Reapproving a Work Order created an Inventory reservation with the wrong quantity.
DT396172 Work Order Tracking In environments where the System Property mxe.app.wpmaterial.enablewpitem is enabled, WPMATERIAL.QUANTITY validation does not handle net issue quantity correctly.
DT396582 Mobile In the Technician application, users cannot make an Asset required.
IJ34873 Work Order Tracking In the Work Order Tracking application, it is possible to add a closed Work Order as a related record.
IJ46228 Drilldown The same drill-down ID from the library.xml displays different results in WORKORDER and WOACTIVITY applications.
IJ47655 System UI Edit mode does not work correctly.
IJ51200 Automation Scripts Nashorn global binding release causes excessive heap generation.
IJ51509
Behavioral Change
Inventory usage When a user re-approves a Reservation, the issued qty is not taken into account.

Behavioral Changes
Manual Changes
APAR Change instructions
System Property mxe.int.msg.htmldecode created.

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 8.6.18
  • Click Save.

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Document Information

Modified date:
03 December 2024

UID

ibm17170368