IBM Maximo consultant, geek, agile evangelist
Maximo and other IBM service management products based on TPAE (like SmartCloud Control Desk) can be seen as sitting at the apex of a pyramid that consists of network, hardware, and software services. As you can see, network performance are the foundation of the pyramid.The simplest way of measuring network performances and speed is the […]
During a performance assessment of a production customer environment I have set the mxe.db.logSQLTimeLimit system property to 2000 to log all long-running SQL statements (see this TechNote for details). Looking at the system logs I have noticed many entries like this. select * from doclinks where (ownertable=’WORKORDER’ and ownerid=1065680) or (ownertable=’WORKORDER’ and ownerid in (select […]
This entry is part of the Conditional Expressions HowTo. If you need to make a field or an object readonly if it has an active and running workflow you are in right place!All you need is a conditional expression that can be used in conditional UI or data restriction.The following conditional expression evaluate to true […]
Maximo licensing model is not simple. In this article I will try to present it the most simple way and to provide some useful tips to perform a licensing audit in your environment. NOTE: The simplification does not consider all the possible versions of Maximo, add-ons, industry solutions, etc. Maximo licensing modelIBM Maximo products are […]
This entry is part of the Maximo Integration Framework series. Maximo uses the Apache Axis library to call external Web Services. Sometimes could be useful enable the logging for this library instead of sniffing connections and protocols to figure out what is going on.Axis uses Apache commons logging for logging which in turn provides a […]
Many customers I work with use a procedure like this one to clone Maximo environments between production, test and development environments. When you use such techniques, you may quickly screw up some settings used during installation of Maximo fixpacks and upgrades.Here are some important things to check before installing any release, fixpack or add-on. Maximo […]
My job brings me across Europe to meet many different customers and work with a vast variety of Maximo environments. One of the most important tasks is to be able to quickly assess a Maximo environment that I have never seen before. How much data? One of the tools I use is a set of […]
A useful portlet (result set) that I typically configure on MAXADMIN’s Start Center is the list of users logged to Maximo server. I use this to perform unplanned system maintenance that requires setting admin mode or restarting the server. To configure this portlet you first have to create the related query. Open Users application, input […]
Before Maximo 6 it was a common practice to implement customizations using database triggers. Although Conditional Expressions, SigOptions, Java coding and scripting are now available in Maximo 7, I still see many Maximo environments with a lot of database triggers.In a recent project I have found a Maximo system with more than 30 triggers and […]
Few times I have found a small but annoying issue on Maximo when attaching Office 2007 files. Do you know those Excel, Word, PowerPoint files with xlsx, docx, pptx extensions? Yes, those! If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer it may happen that these files can be uploaded successfully into your DOCLINKS folder but when you try […]