Change canvas size in workflow designer

If you have used the workflow designer, you know as much as anyone that the canvas size is too small to be really useful.  Here is a tip to make that workflow canvas size bigger.

Maximo 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.

Maximo search methodologies

Using Maximo to search for workorders, for example, can sometimes be a task in and of itself.  So the question here is how does Maximo search for records in the database and what is the best configuration for performing searches?  The article from IBM, Understanding Search Methodologies, can help explain the methods used by [...]

BIRT onDemand and BIRT Mobile Viewer for iPhone

Today Actuate brings us BIRT onDemand and BIRT Mobile Viewer for the iPhone.  These applications allow users to view BIRT generated content on the iPhone or iPod Touch.
BIRT Mobile Viewer Delivers Rich, Interactive Content For Enterprise Users on the iPhone
San Mateo, Calif. – March 9, 2010 – Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTU), the people behind BIRT™, [...]

Creating Additional Continuous Queues and MDBs

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

Maximo links of interest 3-3-2010

Maximo links of interest:

Emailing the latest worklog for a ticket.
Functionality of Job Plan duration.
Auto-numbering Items

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

Setup an Integration Object for Inbound Failure codes

If you have gone through the process of importing data with MIF, you may have noticed that there is not integration object for failure codes.  When I was importing data, I didn’t have to worry too much about it because I didn’t have that many failure codes to import, but if you do, it can [...]

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.

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]

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 [...]

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