Surveillance rounds using mobile technology

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), one of the leading hospitals in the country, uses our very own EZMaxMobile software for surveillance rounds.  Rounds are a way for Supervisors to enter workorders into MAXIMO via their Blackberry or iPad immediately upon seeing a defective unit.  This kind of early detection of equipment failures is one of the [...]

Websphere nodeagent is not synchronized with cell and Maximo won’t start

Sometimes I would randomly encounter a situation where the nodeagent in Websphere is not synchronized with the cell.  Because of this, the MAXIMO application server would not start and would fail immediately.  Now since your nodeagent is out of sync, you have to manually sync it again in order to get the Maximo application to [...]

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Change the UI field width or text box screen sizes

I have posted a solution to extending text box screen sizes before, but for some, that solution didn’t work.  So here is another solution to change or configure the field width on the screen.  The simple answer is this.  Export the XML and add a width attribute to the field.  In the example, they changed [...]

Maximo PM error message: “BMXAA3206E” while generating work orders

Here are two resolutions for error message “BMXAA3206E” and when PM wogen fails with refetch errors.

Maximo links of interest 7-28-2010

Maximo links of interest 7-28-2010

Troubleshooting Custom BIRT report performance

If your reports are getting stuck in the BIRT processing queue, you should read this help document [IBM Support]

MAXIMO performance best practice: use multiple JVMs to support users and functionality

This article by IBM suggest that you use multiple JVM’s to support your users if you have 50 or more. IBM often recommends limiting the number of users in Maximo to 50 and separating functionality such as MEA and Cron tasks. Why is this recommended and what is the meaning of this recommendation? Read the [...]

Updated screen shots for EZMaxMobile

I have just updated the screen shots for our EZMaxMobile software solution.  Check it out…

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 [...]

Hyperlink to Dialog Box

This tutorial from IBM on how to hyperlink to a dialog box is an interesting one.  Not only does it show you how to link to a popup dialog, you can also create a custom dialog to use with it.  Read the full tutorial here…