IBM Pulse 2012 – Release the Beast: How USAA Went on the Mobile Offensive in a Defensive Environment

Are you attending IBM Pulse 2012?  Are you looking for a mobile solution for your business?  Then stop by this session to see how USAA stopped syncing their mobile devices and started using real-time connectivity with EZMaxMobile to improve stability and lower failure rates. Session Details: 1120 Release the Beast: How USAA Went on the [...]

Create a new application in Maximo

In this tutorial, I will show you what are the basic steps to creating a new application within Maximo.  This tutorial won’t go into details about custom java class but it will show you what you need to do to add a new application.  For simplicity sake, this new application won’t have any business logic, [...]

Best Practices for System Performance 7.5x White Paper

Rick over at developerWorks has posted a white paper on system performances related to  TPAE products.  If this is something you need, I suggest you take a peak.

Get database specific date formats for MBO queries

One of the biggest challenges of using MBO’s are queries that use date ranges or date values in general.  This is because any user can be connected to an Oracle, SQL Server or DB2 instance and they all use dates differently.  There is a class called SqlFormat that will help take care of the date [...]

Using date ranges in BIRT reports

I have always wondered what the ‘operator’ field was used for in the report administration application.  When you want to use date ranges in BIRT reports, this is exact what it’s used for.  Here is a link that shows how to extend QBR reports to include date ranges.

Maximo fix pack 7.1.1.10 now available

On December 8, 2011, IBM Software released the Base Services 7.1.1.10 fix pack for Maximo Asset Management, Maximo Asset Management Essentials, and Tivoli Asset Management for IT Download Description This product update corresponds to fixes for Base Services (MBS), which is not a product, but is the base platform component for the products listed in [...]

Secure MIF web service methods with native authentication

By default, MIF web services are unsecure, but if you are using native Maximo security and not LDAP, you can secure MIF web services with this configuration change. Normally Web Services and HTTP Servelets are secured using the MEAWEB Web.xml descriptor to map the maximousers security role in the Application Server to each service. If [...]

How to avoid PM’s from generating during a Holiday

It might be a little bit late here but this is a good post on using active dates on PM’s

Using the AddUser.bat file to add new users

There are a bunch of .bat files that come with Maximo such as “configdb.bat” and many others.  Here is one that lets you add users to Maximo just by running this file.  Of course, like some of the .bat files, some of these aren’t officially supported by IBM so if you run into problems, they [...]

Maximo Integration Framework Session 1 in Mandarin

This STE was yesterday but here is the official link to it and here is the PDF presentation as well.