My name is Chon, feel free to ask me any question regarding Maximo. I will try to answer them as best as I can.
As you guys may know, I am a .NET developer and I have been experimenting with Java and trying to learn and write some Maximo custom java class implementations. So here is my first hands on experience extending an existing class in order to add a laborcode field to the workorder screen. Of course, you [...]
If you have used the workflow designer, you know as much as anyone that the canvas size is too small to be really useful. Here is a tip to make that workflow canvas size bigger.
If you have installed Maximo 7.1.1.6 and want to use Cognos BI, then this Maximo Cognos Integration installation guide will help you through the process.
Using Maximo to search for workorders, for example, can sometimes be a task in and of itself. So the question here is how does Maximo search for records in the database and what is the best configuration for performing searches? The article from IBM, Understanding Search Methodologies, can help explain the methods used by [...]
Today Actuate brings us BIRT onDemand and BIRT Mobile Viewer for the iPhone. These applications allow users to view BIRT generated content on the iPhone or iPod Touch.
BIRT Mobile Viewer Delivers Rich, Interactive Content For Enterprise Users on the iPhone
San Mateo, Calif. – March 9, 2010 – Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTU), the people behind BIRT™, [...]
Here is a good article on creating additional continuous queues and MDBs for Maximo 7 MIF.
Maximo links of interest:
Emailing the latest worklog for a ticket.
Functionality of Job Plan duration.
Auto-numbering Items
This guide will help you setup linked documents in Maximo 7 for Linux and Windows.
If you have Maximo 7.1.1.6 then you can use Cognos with Maximo. Here are some helpful links to setting that up.
Maximo Cognos Integration Installation
Maximo Cognos Integration
If you have gone through the process of importing data with MIF, you may have noticed that there is not integration object for failure codes. When I was importing data, I didn’t have to worry too much about it because I didn’t have that many failure codes to import, but if you do, it can [...]
OK, the title of this post might be a bit misleading, but in Maximo 7, you can’t actually delete items from the Item Master. This is not a bug and it’s actually meant to be this way. In order to “delete” an item, you basically just have to change the status of the item to [...]
Most of you know that you can change the field size of any value by going into the database configuration and changing the size to either are larger or smaller number. But in doing this, sometimes the field on the screen doesn’t change in width if your field size changes are very minimal. [...]
Here is a guide document on how to add the user name of the person executing a BIRT report.
I have been looking for this functionality for a while and now I have finally found it. This feature is available for BIRT 2.3.1, which means you will have to have Maximo 7.1.1.5 or above installed as it comes with BIRT 2.3.2. You will have to write some java for this to work, [...]
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]
March 18, 2010
