I have been playing around with Maximo 6 MEA web services a lot lately and I recently realized something strange. If you restart the application server, the web services no longer work or aren't available for use, even though the "deployed as web … Read More
This publication comes from IBM Redbooks (download the publication): This IBM® Redpaper publication provides IBM Business Partners and services teams guidance and information to help streamline their engagements related to deploying solutions based … Read More
If you generate workorders from PM's that have a lot of job tasks, you may have noticed that the parent workorder numbers are not in order or sequential. It may seem like the workorder numbers are skipping when they shouldn't be, but in fact, what's … Read More
Are you sick and tired of year old Maximo UI design? Well, Maximo 7.1.1.5 comes with a new skin. … Read More
I recently received a question regarding the ability to edit the Service Request detail screen in the application designer in Maximo 7. Actually, it was more along the line of where can I find the detail screen in the application designer? Of … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
In Maximo 4.1.1, you used to be able to select a laborcode or craft on a workorder. Now in Maximo 6 and 7, you can't even select either one. You now have to select a person ID for the lead field on the workorder. I am not completely sure why IBM got … Read More
