IBM Maximo consultant, geek, agile evangelist
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 […]
Did you ever need to open multiple Maximo UI sessions?If you want to perform work in parallel to become more productive, you can launch multiple browser tabs or windows as the same user.You only need to use a URL like this to connect to your Maximo server: http://[MXHOST]/maximo/ui/login When this procedure is followed correctly, […]
A little comic to start this brand new week.
After Motorola ET1 tablet and Toughpad FZ-A1 a new option is now available to mobilize your Maximo users.Few days ago Panasonic has announced the availability of the Toughpad JT-B1 7-inch Android tablet. I will never stop saying that I think Android is the best strategic choice for the Mobile workforce. IBM is focusing on this platform and will soon […]