Improve Maximo’s doclinks performance

Maximo can have performance issues at times so any tip to improve it in any way is always helpful. Bruno has shared his quick tip on how to improve doclinks by modifying a little bit of SQL.  This tip can be applied anywhere so be sure to check it out.

Troubleshoot Maximo BIRT Report Performance

Recently have was tasked to troubleshoot a custom BIRT report performance issue for a client for Maximo 7.1  The problem was that the report, which normally ran fine, was now taking over 30 minutes to run and eventually never ran at all, which then in turn resulted in other reports not being able to run. [...]

Enable Performance Monitor for Maximo TPAE

The Performance Monitor (PERFMON) or Maximo Activity Dashboard (MAD) enables you to see performance bottlenecks.  This feature is only available in Maximo 7.1.1.6 and above.  If you have Maximo 7.1 you can go here or if you have Maximo 7.5 you can go here

WebCast: Maximo Performance Best Practices

Audience: All Level Support, Services, GTS, Business Partners, Customers This STE will cover: – Discussion of Maximo Performance Best Practices Date: September 13, 2012 10:00 am Eastern US Time Presented by: Darlene Nerden and Jonathan Lawrence II Content This is the presentation file used for the live session: NOTE: Presentation file will be available on [...]

Performance Analyst 1.0.0 Released

Performance Analyst is a tool aimed to make performance analysis manageable. Performance analysis is all about data, I mean, large amount of data. Sometime there might be days of application logs and performance data for us to sort out the reason why it slowed down or even crashed. Other times we might have to figure out [...]

Maintaining your Maximo system

We all know the reason for any company to purchase an EAM product like Maximo.  It’s because they want to be able to maintain their assets and keep them in top physical shape.  You create PM programs for your assets so they staying running extended periods of time without any slow or downtime.  But did [...]

IBM Maximo recommends using WebSphere 7.0 fixpack 21 or higher with Java SDK 1.6 SR9 FP2

IBM WebSphere has published a technote for the Out of Memory problem in SDK 1.6 SR9. The out of memory problem has been experienced in Maximo environments using WebSphere 7.1. Symptom Java Out of Memory Resolving the problem IBM WebSphere has published the technote for the Out of Memory problem in SDK 1.6 SR9. The [...]

Best Practices for System Performance 7.5x White Paper

Rick over at developerWorks has posted a white paper on system performances related to  TPAE products.  If this is something you need, I suggest you take a peak.

Working with the Performance Monitoring tool in Maximo 7

I have already shown how to enable the performance monitoring tool in Maximo 7 but working with it is a different story.  Here is how to view the statistics of the performance monitoring tool. Open up the Maximo application in a web browser and proceed to the portion of the application that you wish to [...]

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. [...]