Creating Additional Continuous Queues and MDBs

Here is a good article on creating additional continuous queues and MDBs for Maximo 7 MIF.

Setup linked documents in Maximo 7

This guide will help you setup linked documents in Maximo 7 for Linux and Windows.

Maximo and Cognos integration

If you have Maximo 7.1.1.6 then you can use Cognos with Maximo.  Here are some helpful links to setting that up.

Maximo Cognos Integration Installation
Maximo Cognos Integration

Change text box screen sizes without making database field size changes

Most of you know that you can change the field size of any value by going into the database configuration and changing the size to either are larger or smaller number. But in doing this, sometimes the field on the screen doesn’t change in width if your field size changes are very minimal. [...]

Dynamically change the file name of a BIRT output report

I have been looking for this functionality for a while and now I have finally found it. This feature is available for BIRT 2.3.1, which means you will have to have Maximo 7.1.1.5 or above installed as it comes with BIRT 2.3.2. You will have to write some java for this to work, [...]

Maintain System Properties When Moving or Copying a Database

Here is a good article for you system administrators. If you do a lot of development like we do around here, copying and moving Maximo databases can be a pain. This article on maintaining system properties when moving or copying databases should help ease the pain applies to Maximo 7. [IBM Support]

An improved Maximo Assignment Manager

If you have used the built in Maximo Assignment Manager module, you probably wanted to pick up your computer and throw it out the window. In my opinion, the assignment manager module and far from being user friendly and all it’s meant to do is associate a name to a workorder. Of course [...]

Extending Maximo 7 Business Objects

At times it is necessary to override or extend the functionality in core MAXIMO. This can be achieved by ‘extending’ methods in the Maximo business objects. The following section outlines the process involved in extending the add() method in the Items application. This same approach can be used to extend any add() method from the [...]

Add long description to MBO’s with the Integration Framework

When you start playing around with the MEA or MIF and you come to a point where there are some extra fields that you want to populate aren’t provided in the persistent fields of the MBO, you must look into the non-persistent fields.  Here is an example of including the long descriptions using a non-persistent [...]

Add URL to Maximo Start Center

A URL can be added to the Start Center header area. The steps to accomplish this are as follows:
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