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July 28, 2010

Maximo links of interest 7-28-2010

Maximo links of interest 7-28-2010

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July 15, 2010

New MAXIMO support forum

I am happy to announce that we have started a MAXIMO support forum. This forum will be used for all support questions.  Please refrain from posting support questions in the blog comments. For all of you that already registered here, you should be able to post new support topics in the forum.  And for those [...]

Chon

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February 4, 2010

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 [...]

Chon

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January 17, 2010

MEA web services do not automatically deploy after application restart

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 [...]

Chon

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December 3, 2009

Setup FailureCode inbound integration object

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 [...]

Chon

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October 28, 2009

Change status of a record with an inbound transaction

This article by IBM support explains how to change the status of a record with an inbound transaction with MEA or the MIF. Question How do I get the Integration Framework or MEA to change the status of a record in Maximo? Answer Status change is an operation that is performed on stateful Maximo Business [...]

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October 22, 2009

Mismatches between labor, craft, skill level, vendor and contract are not allowed. Use the Select Value lookup to see a list of valid choices

If you have been playing around with the Maximo Enterprise Adapter (MEA) or even the Integration Framework in Maximo 7, and you have tried to load labor transactions against a workorder, you may have encountered this very random error: Mismatches between labor, craft, skill level, vendor and contract are not allowed. Use the Select Value [...]

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July 14, 2009

Feature documents for MEA

This list features the most requested documents as well as those identified as valuable in helping answer your questions related to the Maximo Enterprise Adapter (MEA). Predefined Integration Content: Functional Description and Implementation Scope (1380484) Maximo Integration Framework- Error Extract Functionality (1331069) Setting up a WebLogic cluster for use with the Maximo Enterprise Adapter (1293677) [...]

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June 10, 2009

WebCast: Integration Framework Overview and New Features in IF 7

This is an older webcast, but you can still view the PPT and video presentation.
This STE will cover Maximo Integration Framework, integration Framework Changes from MEA 6.x to IF 7.1, and Integration Framework New Features

Chon

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May 18, 2009

Screencast: Import users and passwords with Maximo Integration Framework

This screencast will walk you through importing security users and be able to set their passwords.

Chon

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April 7, 2009

Import data with Maximo Enterprise Adapter (MEA)

There aren’t many differences between Maximo 6′s MEA and Maximo 7′s MIF. If you read my previous post on importing data with MIF, then it will be easier to understand how MEA works. The architecture is pretty much the same but some minor name changes. If you have never used the MIF, then this tutorial [...]

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