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.
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 [...]
Set default filter where clause in application designer
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 [...]
Improve Maximo network performance
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 [...]
Change Maximo timeout warning
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 [...]
Maximo for Service Providers 7.1.1.1 Fix Pack
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 [...]
New and improved IBM support portal
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Maximo live demo sites
Most of you guys probably already knew this, but did you know that IBM has a live demo site for Maximo 6 and 7? You can log in and play around with whatever modules you want. For all of you potential future IBM clients, have a look at these demo sites before you go out [...]
MAXIMO BIRT Report Generator
If you guys want to easily develop some BIRT reports, then this plugin is for you. This tool/utility has been brought to my attention by Christian (Thanks!) and it looks very promising! Here is a brief description of the plugin: Code generator for IBM Maximo Report Developer MAYR-MELNHOF Karton Gesellschaft mbH and CoSMIT GmbH jointly [...]
New Maximo 7 fix pack releases for October 16, 2009
Today IBM has release 4 fix packs for Maximo: Maximo for Calibration 7.1.1.1 Fix Pack (Download Link) The purpose of this fix pack is to fix issues with printed report output for Maximo for Calibration reports. Prerequisites Before you install this fix pack, ensure the following requirements are installed: Maximo Asset Management 7.1.0 Maximo Base [...]








