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September 2, 2010

WebCast: Changing relationship between IBM and Actuate: Impact to customers, 2 of 2

Abstract Audience: GRT, Level 1 Support, Level 2 Support, Support Planning, AVL, All Services, All Sales, Technical, Enablement, All Business Partners, Customer This STE session is a continuation of the earlier session on the changing relationship between Maximo and Actuate. – Will detail different reporting options available for clients enabled thru Maximo’s Open Reporting Architecture [...]

Chon

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August 23, 2010

Change font size of long description dialog box

Here is a simple trick to change the font size of the long description dialog box for MAXIMO 7…

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August 18, 2010

Make changes without having to redeploy Maximo EAR files

Here is a good post on WebSphere and the exploded ear.  This method makes it so that you don’t have to redeploy EAR files when you make changes to any java code or anything like it.  Very useful!

Chon

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August 16, 2010

Promote your MAXIMO solution on CMMS Marketplace

I started this blog over a year ago with the main goal to promote our MAXIMO solutions to consumers and secondly to give out great MAXIMO tutorials.  At the time, there were MAXIMO forums that helped developers, but nothing had a  “how to” section for MAXIMO.  I’m not sure that there weren’t any tutorials out [...]

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August 12, 2010

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 [...]

Chon

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August 11, 2010

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 [...]

Chon

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August 6, 2010

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 [...]

Chon

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August 5, 2010

Upcoming Maximo 6.2.7 fix pack corrected issues

The soon to be released Maximo 6.2.7 fix pack list of corrected issues. It’s scheduled to be released in September.

Chon

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August 4, 2010

Best warning message of all time!

So here I am working on some mobile development for a client and we found the need to upgrade the mobile devices to a newer OS, and here is the message we received when upgrading.  Priceless!

Chon

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July 30, 2010

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.

Chon

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July 28, 2010

Maximo links of interest 7-28-2010

Maximo links of interest 7-28-2010

Chon

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July 27, 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]

Chon

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July 21, 2010

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 [...]

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July 20, 2010

Updated screen shots for EZMaxMobile

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

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July 19, 2010

IBM Redbooks: IBM Tivoli Asset Management for IT Portfolio Overview

Overview: This IBM Redbooks publication provides an overview of the IBM Tivoli Asset Management for IT portfolio. The portfolio is made up of the three primary products, IBM Tivoli Asset Management for IT, IBM Tivoli License Compliance Manager for z/OS, and IBM Tivoli License Compliance Manager. By using these products together, you can implement a [...]

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