IBM Maximo consultant, geek, agile evangelist
Long descriptions in Maximo are a special fields meant to store long text. Unlike all the other fields they are stored in a dedicated table called LONGDESCRIPTION. Tables link to the LONGDESCRIPTION table through their unique ID and the long description attribute is stored in a CLOB field. Let’s change the long description of the work […]
The Assets/Locations drilldown dialog is one of the most longstanding and criticized features of Maximo. This dialog is almost unchanged from release 6.1 and definitely lacks some important capabilities to provide a unified view of assets and location hierarchy. However, we can make few minor improvements to the standard dialog to make it slightly better. Increase […]
A common requirement in Maximo is to track changes made by users on a specific object (database table). In Maximo terms this is called ‘Audit Tracking’.In this post I will describe how to enable audit tracking for a specific set of attributes of an object and how to display the updates in a separate tab […]
After several experiments with IBM Watson IoT Platform I have decided to take a step back and play MQTT manually to really understand how it works. In this post I will walk through my experiments with of the Watson IoT Platform MQTT messaging API for devices, applications and gateways. Prerequisites First of all you need […]
Eclipse Kura is an Open Source project that provides a platform for building IoT gateways. It is a smart application container that enables remote management of such gateways and provides a wide range of APIs for allowing you to write and deploy your own IoT application. Kura runs on top of the Java Virtual Machine […]
In this post I will describe how to install the Raspbian operating system on a Raspberry PI 2 or 3 and some basic configuration settings to start your IoT projects.The described procedure will not require a display and keyyboard and can be performed just connecting the PI to your router using a LAN cable. Raspbian […]
The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the most significant trends in technology today. A melding of innovations in the fields of computing and communication, IoT and its “smart” devices are poised to revolutionize not only user-machine interaction but also the way in which machines engage with one another. IoT is now permeating in […]
By default MxLoader uses plain Object Services through HTTP calls. These services are automatically exposed when an Object Structure is created in Maximo. Using Web Services is possible to have more control over data defining processing classes, user exit classes, XSL maps, and processing rules. MxLoader 5.1 now allows to use Web Services as well. […]
A common requirement is to display the bulletin board messages in a more visible way.A simple solution is to display the formatted message opened by default. To achieve this you can edit the following JSP file: [SMP]\applications\maximo\maximouiweb\webmodule\webclient\components\bulletinboard.jsp On my Maximo 7.5.0.6 i have this line of code at row 335: style=”display:none;overflow:visible” If you change the […]
A common requirement in Maximo projects is to restrict work order status changes based on some internal business rules. This can be achieved on Maximo with the technique described in this article.Unfortunately the rules set in the WOSTATUS domain on the server are not applied automatically to the Anywhere mobile applications so we need to […]