IBM Maximo consultant, geek, agile evangelist
In this post I will describe all the main steps required to install an IBM SCCD demo system on a Linux RedHat 5.7 x64 machine. All the Maximo components will be installed on the same OS for simplicity.NOTE: Please check supported versions of Linux for server and admin workstation in TPAE Product Configuration Matrix. Operating […]
Everyplace 7.5 and above provides pinch-to-zoom functionality. If you need nice feature on lower versions and you cannot upgrade there is a small trick to fix this problem.You only need to manually edit maximouiweb.war\webclient\components\page.jsp file and remove the following piece of code rebuild the EAR file and redeploy it. maximum-scale=1.000; minimum-scale=1.000″ Be aware that changes to […]
Ever since the dawn of modern industry, regardless of how old your plant or assets are or what type of product is made at your plant, it’s all about getting to problems before they get to you. There are four key elements to optimizing the up time of your assets. Leverage data available from the Dynamic Infrastructure and Smart Devices. […]
Today a customer asked me to extract the full listing of failure codes, problems, causes and remedies. He wants to be able to create an Excel spreadsheet to analyze the failure codes tree in order to improve and reorganize such structure.Here is the SQL query that can extract this information from Maximo database. select f.failurecode […]
I think that one of the things that are missing in the Maximo documentation is a command line reference. That’s why I decided to go through the Maximo directories and search for commands that can be run the system prompt. The following list should be intended as a work in progress. Many commands are not […]
As Maximo consultant I often feel like Winston Wolf in the famous Pulp Fiction movie.
Few days ago Panasonic announced the commercialization of the long waited Toughpad FZ-A1.I think that Android is the best strategic option for mobile workforce enablement and the new Toughpad seems a very interesting rugged device to run Maximo Everyplace.Another interesting news is that IBM has planned to deliver Maximo Mobile Suite on Android platform in […]
If you use Maximo Everyplace on Android you may wish to look at this small native app that I have developed to overcome some minor limitations of the product. This are the enhancement provided by this native mobile app: Free up screen space hiding browser’s address bar and notification bar Enable barcode scanning through the […]
Today I have discovered a nice script called cleanstartcenters.bat that can be used to force the reload of the Start Center for a specific set of users. The usage of this script is documented in this IBM TechNote.Unfortunately, the script seems have some problems or I’m am too silly to use it 
so I […]
This entry is part of the Maximo Java Development series. This is just an example of a Maximo role defined with a custom Java class. In this example I have defined a role that can be used to send emails (Communication Template) to the workorder’s supervisor or to the owner group if the supervisor is […]