March 12, 2010Maximo Cognos Integration Installation
If you have installed Maximo 7.1.1.6 and want to use Cognos BI, then this Maximo Cognos Integration installation guide will help you through the process.
Guides
Setup linked documents in Maximo 7
This guide will help you setup linked documents in Maximo 7 for Linux and Windows.
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. [...]
BIRT: Add user name of person executing report
Here is a guide document on how to add the user name of the person executing a BIRT report.
Maximo 7 Developer Reference Guide
Here is a link to IBM’s Maximo 7 Developer Reference Guide
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/brandcatalog/portal/opal/details?catalog.label=1TW10MA2K
This is just a help file that contains some sample java code and examples of how to extend some Maximo business objects.
Maximo 7.1.1.5 Java Docs
Here is the link to the Maximo 7.1.1.5 Java docs
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/brandcatalog/portal/opal/details?catalog.label=1TW10MA1Z
IBM Redpaper: IBM Maximo Asset Management Essentials: Rapid Engagement Guide
This publication comes from IBM Redbooks (download the publication):
This IBM® Redpaper publication provides IBM Business Partners and services teams guidance and information to help streamline their engagements related to deploying solutions based on the Maximo Asset Management Essentials product. Maximo Asset Management Essentials provides small to medium businesses a robust platform for enterprise asset management.
Maximo [...]
Maximo 6 technical reference guide
I found this great Maximo 6 technical reference guide. I can’t seem to find one for Maximo 7, but this should still be useful. If you know of any Maximo 7 technical reference guide, let us know…
Improve Maximo network performance
This article explains how to improve network performance for Maximo 6 or 7. If you are running Maximo in a low bandwidth and/or high latency network, reduce network bandwidth utilization by enabling the data compression filter & enable a filter to cache the image, CSS, and JavaScript files on the browser. If you are [...]
Setup Integration Framework for multiple instances of Maximo 7
I have found this perfect article on how to setup JMS configurations for multiple instances of Maximo that quickly guides you through the process. If you only have one instance, this should help you get started with the Integration Framework.
Color code Workorder Tracking list items
The workorder assignment manager already has a built in color code scheme where it changes the font color of the rows depending on what the priority of the workorder is. We can expand this functionality to other modules as well such as the Workorder Tracking module. We can change the row color of [...]
Create and setup a calendar in Maximo
This document will guide you through setting up calendars in Maximo, but mostly it is something that is needed for the assignment manager. Along with setting up calendars, you have to setup shifts and many other things in order to get the Maximo assignment manager to work. If doing all of that doesn’t isn’t required, then you might want to have a look at our WebAssign product which makes it much easier to assign workorders.
Strategies for setting up Security Groups
I am currently in the process of reviewing security groups for one of our clients. There are many ways to configure security because every organization is different but these simple strategies should help. This was taken directly from the Maximo help documentation.
Creating security groups can be a modest to complicated task, depending on [...]
BIRT barcode fonts
Barcoding can be useful for many things, such as putting one on a workorder details report and when the work is completed, the person at the front desk can quickly scan those barcodes and change the status of the workorder to complete. This guide for enabling barcode fonts in BIRT will walk you through setting it up on the client development machine as well as the server running your BIRT reports.
BIRT tutorials and resources
These tutorials and resources are great for those of you who are just starting out with the development of BIRT reports.
