This tip is from David: From https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21322703 These special characters are supported: ampersand & dollar sign $ period . angle brackets < > equal sign = pipe | asterisk * exclamation point ! plus sign + at sign @ greater than sign < question mark ? backslash hyphen – semicolon ; braces { } less [...]
Understanding Escalation Points and setup escalation to cancel a Service Request
Here is a document from IBM on setting up an escalation to cancel SR. It’s a pretty straight forward example and I normally probably wouldn’t post it as I have already written about setting up escalation points before, but in my example, I used the ‘getdate()’ SQL method to calculate which records were not processed the last time [...]
How to add a login banner and disable new user registration in one step
This great tip was provided by one of our members, David. I had a requirement to remove new user registration, and in addition to add an official government computer system login banner to a maximo 7 build. Here’s the method that worked best for our system and requires no modification to the application or editing [...]
Creating Bar/Pie chart portlet for your Start Center
You can create KPI’s for your Start Center, but first we will create pie/bar charts as they are much simpler to create. You can create pie charts and bar charts from your results set queries that you should have already created. These charts basically group your query data results and show them in a visual [...]
Change or modify the Go To menu application positions
We can already add custom modules to main Go To dropdown menu, but here are two tutorials from IBM on how to re-position the menu items with detailed instructions on updating the backend database to achieve what you want. Changing Application Listings within the Go To Changing the Sub Menu Positions With the Go To According to [...]
Import Inventory Records using Maximo Integration Framework (MIF)
Maximo has a powerful feature that can take the load off of both user and administrator. A common example of a request a Maximo administrator may get is, ‘Is there anyway I can avoid typing in this list of 286 new inventory items into Maximo?’. In older versions of Maximo (e.g. 4.x and 5.x), an [...]
WebCast: Maximo Report Strategy, Upgrades and Questions
This STE will cover: – Understand Maximo’s Reporting Options – Understand the benefits of each option, and how they can be applied in your unique environment – Review Maximo’s Open Reporting Architecture and Options – Detail Report Upgrade Considerations 3. Enable interactive client question and answer period for any reporting question Date: September 20, 2011 [...]
Add custom modules to the main Go To menu
As some of you may know, the only way you can add new modules in Maximo is to duplicate an application such as Work Order Tracking from within Application Designer in order for it to show up in the ‘Go To’ drop down menu. But it doesn’t really show up in the main menu list, meaning [...]
Corrected APARs in Upcoming Maximo 7.5.0.1 Fix Pack
What APARs are corrected in the Maximo 7.5.0.1 fix pack? Maximo 7.5.0.1 fix pack is currently slated to be released in 4Q 2011. Click here to view the latest attached spreadsheet which includes the current list of fixed APARs for this fix pack.
Create custom web services in Maximo
I found this post to be very interesting from Burak Bolek. He talks about writing your very own custom java web service. Will this method, you can almost do anything you want in Maximo via web services. Very cool!







