I have seen this many times where users ask me, "how can I edit closed workorders in Maximo?" They want to be able to go into a closed workorder and add labor hours or materials on them for some reason or another and if you have used previous … Read More
Here is an interesting article on changing the date format in Maximo 7. This actually explains the logic behind the dates in Maximo and how it's derived when it's displayed to the user. [IBM Support] … Read More
Our friend Chris Q has come up with a brilliant solution for customizing the default Maximo login page with his own messages. I have shown you how to modify the login page before, but Chris made note of the 'welcomemaximomessage' key is used in the … Read More
Here is a link to a great resource for getting started with MBO development. [IBM Maximo Wiki] … Read More
Recently IBM has announced a security vulnerability in their asset management applications such as Maximo, and IBM now has a fix for this. Here is an overview of the issue: A critical Java class library security vulnerability was blogged on the … Read More
I just found this article that describes how to integrate other systems with Maximo 7. It talks about what is the Maximo Integration Framework then walks you through setting up Maximo workorder web services then working with it. … Read More
The 'additionalevent' and 'additionaleventvalue' are attributes that you can use to tell Maximo what event to call and what are the parameter to pass to that event. For example, you can automatically load the workorder tracking application just by … Read More
To improve performance for large scale environment, it is best to separate different work elements in Maximo 7 from the user interface (UI). This example from IBM shows how to separate escalations from the UI in WebSphere. You can then use this … Read More
I recently ran into an issue where a client wanted to change the field size in Maximo 6.2 when they are in the list view of a module. I found this nice article from IBM that shows how to do just that. This tell you that you can modify the file … Read More
Here are a couple flash videos with audio from IBM support that show how to setup some conditional security. This first video shows how to configure required fields using attribute restrictions. In this example, a required field is needed when … Read More
