My name is Chon, feel free to ask me any question regarding Maximo. I will try to answer them as best as I can.
To me the BIRT report logos are unnecessary and take up too much valuable space on a report where the data is the most important thing on there. But if you don’t want to have the “tivoli” and “IBM” logos displayed, you can always remove them from the report designer when developing the report, but [...]
Abstract Audience: GRT, Level 1 Support, Level 2 Support, Support Planning, AVL, All Services, All Sales, Technical, Enablement, All Business Partners, Customer This STE session is a continuation of the earlier session on the changing relationship between Maximo and Actuate. – Will detail different reporting options available for clients enabled thru Maximo’s Open Reporting Architecture [...]
Here are two resolutions for error message “BMXAA3206E” and when PM wogen fails with refetch errors.
This article by IBM suggest that you use multiple JVM’s to support your users if you have 50 or more. IBM often recommends limiting the number of users in Maximo to 50 and separating functionality such as MEA and Cron tasks. Why is this recommended and what is the meaning of this recommendation? Read the [...]
This tutorial from IBM on how to hyperlink to a dialog box is an interesting one. Not only does it show you how to link to a popup dialog, you can also create a custom dialog to use with it. Read the full tutorial here…
Here is a white paper on Maximo 7 performance best practices…
All of you have probably read my post on installing multiple instances of Maximo 7 using WebSphere. It is the third most popular post on this site. Now IBM, with it’s latest installer package, has enabled this capability. To read what they have provided, follow this link to their support site for more information.
The Maximo default display of 10 can be changed to allow the Asset application’s Specifications table window to show more rows to the user without having to scroll. Go to Configuration | Application Designer In the Application field enter ASSET and hit Enter Open the record for the ASSET application by clicking on it Click [...]
If the user presses the Enter key instead of the Tab key during data entry a new row gets created. The user desires that either the Enter key or the Tab key be designated for use during data entry to move to the next field. The default behavior of the New Row button within each [...]
Maximo’s web service library can consist of services that are created from an Object Stucture, Enterprise Service or a Standard Service. A Standard Service is just that, it’s an OOTB service that is prebuilt and predefined. There are roughly 10 or so predefined standard services that range from ASSET to WORKORDER to TICKET. These services [...]
WebSphere (http Server): Need to modify the httpd.conf file (typically located: C:\max62\IBMHTTPServer\conf) Options -Indexes The above “-Indexes” tells apache not to serve out that location’s directory tree when requested. By default the options is set to Indexes 1. need put in the negative sign, -Indexes 2. Save httpd.conf 3. and restart the service BEA WebLogic: [...]
I just started to play around with this again and noticed that even in Maximo 7.1.1.6 this feature is not enabled by default. So, you have to enable it yourself. You have to download a package file and rebuild and deploy EAR for this to show. Read the full article here…
I’m sure most of you have read my post on setting up multiple instances of Maximo, and if you have, you maybe wondering how to setup the JMS buses and queues for MIF to work for each instance. Well, here is a detailed KB article on Configuring JMS Buses and queues for Multiple Independent Instances [...]
The conditional expression manager is a useful tool to use to conditionally display or hide data or fields. This helpful trick will show you how to make a field required based on some other values in other fields. In previous version of Maximo, this used to be called Field Control. Now, I know that you [...]
September 3, 2010
