My name is Chon, feel free to ask me any question regarding Maximo. I will try to answer them as best as I can.
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]
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 [...]
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.
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
I have been playing around with Maximo 6 MEA web services a lot lately and I recently realized something strange. If you restart the application server, the web services no longer work or aren’t available for use, even though the “deployed as web service” checkbox is checked in your interface. This could be a potential [...]
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 [...]
Found this new wiki site for Maximo. It’s great for finding a lot of resources. You can start contributing as well…
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…
If you use Cognos from IBM, then Maximo fix pack 7.1.1.6 now supports Cognos reporting. I have heard alot about Cognos, but I have yet to use it. If you do use it, how do you like it? Is it easy to use or is there a steep learning curve? [IBM Support]
IBM Software released the Base Services 7.1.1.6 fix pack for Maximo Asset Management, Maximo Asset Management Essentials, and Tivoli Asset Management for IT.
This guide will help those of you who have a lot of failure codes and list to import and don’t want to do it by hand. I don’t know why IBM didn’t have an integration object setup out of the box, but here is the guide to setting up FailureCode inbound integration object. This is [...]
You can set default filters for workorders in Maximo, by setting the default where clause in the application designer. You can set it so that when a user first opens the workorder module, only the PM worktypes are queried. The user can still requery the workorders by using the advanced search. Read the whole article [...]
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 having [...]
Here is an interesting article on changing the advanced timeout warning message in Maximo. I think the default is set to 10 minutes, where after 10 minutes of inactivity, a dialog will pop up warning you that you will be logged out in 2 minutes. You can change the timeout warning to 30 minutes if [...]
The purpose of this fix pack is to address customer-reported issues, as well as issues reported by the development team during the design of future enhancements or as the result of continued QA testing. This fix pack also includes an enhancement in the Service Level Agreements (SP) application to streamline the application of an SLA [...]
February 11, 2010
