This STE will cover:
- Understanding the products and versions needed to upgrade Maximo.
- Verified process of upgrading through each stage of the process.
- Error handling strategies and getting help.
WebCast: Upgrading Maximo 4, 5, 6, 7 and beyond
How to integrate your enterprise applications with Maximo
I just found this article that describes how to integrate other systems with Maximo 7. It talks about what is the Maximo Integration Framework then walks you through setting up Maximo workorder web services then working with it.
Separate user interface from escalations
To improve performance for large scale environment, it is best to separate different work elements in Maximo 7 from the user interface (UI). This example from IBM shows how to separate escalations from the UI in WebSphere. You can then use this method to separate other work related parts such as cron tasks and reporting. [...]
IBM Education Assistant: Build and deploy Maximo EAR files
IBM just release this flash video with audio on how to build and deploy Maximo EAR files. There is also a PDF version of this video available. [IBM Education Assistant]
Migration Manager Guide
Just found this doc about Migration Manager. It’s a guide provided by IBM that is intended for deployment managers, admins, and developers.
How to redeploy Maximo EAR files
IBM has a released a nice little guide on how to redeploy Maximo EAR files for WebSphere, Weblogic 9 and WebLogic 8. See the guide here.
Import locations with Maximo Integration Framework
There seems to be some trick to really getting the locations and location hierarchies to be imported into Maximo correctly with the Integration Framework. I have tried many things to get this to work and I here is what I have come up with. This tutorial comes with an excel file that I manually created [...]
Setup a Maximo 7 cluster with WebLogic or WebSphere
IBM has provided some documentation on how to setup clusters for Maximo 7 for WebLogic and WebSphere. Below are the related docs…
Create ‘My Work Order Assignments’ portlet for your start center
Maximo start center portlets are great for a quick overview of information that is important to you. Start centers are the first thing you see when you log into Maximo. You can use portlets to show a variety of information and if I’m a labor technician, the most important thing to me is to quickly [...]
How to rebuild and redeploy EAR files FASTER with WebSphere
I have already shown you how I personally quickly rebuild and redeploy EAR files with WebSphere, but here is another quick trick that can get the job done just as well. This text is available for purchase but you need to login or register first. Please Login here.







