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This entry is part of the Maximo Java Development series. A very common doubt when extending MBOs is what value returns the Mbo.getString() method when the target field has a null value. The answer is: It returns an empty string “”.Thus to check if the DESCRIPTION of an Mbo is empty or null you can […]
Maximo Asset Management version 7.5.0.3 incorporates several new features, such as the ability to link Maximo Asset Management applications to external applications and the option to configure high availability for your environment. 7.5.0.3 also introduces email interaction, which enables a user to change the status of an object or workflow assignment by email. In addition […]
An outstanding set of articles about how to configure and use the Maximo Email Listener with GMail are available on IBM Asset Management blog.Here are the links: Importing the SSL Certificate Configuring SMTP Over SSL Sending Service Requests
When you have to assess the system performance of a Maximo server it may be useful to have a quickly see what are the larger database tables and indexes. This can quickly spot some performance issues in your system.Large tables generates heavy database I/O workloads when are nor accesses through an index. Large indexes are also inefficient. Creating indexes with too […]
This entry is part of the Maximo Java Development series. When you are in an Mbo class or you already have a reference to an Mbo object is it possible to retrieve the related records using Maximo object relationships as defined in the Database Configuration application.For example the ASSET object has a relationship called ACTIVEASSETMETER to the […]
This entry is part of the Maximo Java Development series. One of the biggest issues when implementing Java customizations in the Maximo Business Objects layer is to know what is the best method to override to achieve a specific goal.Here I have listed the most common usages of the the main methods in Mbo, MboSet and […]
Maximo Activity Dashboard (also known as MAD or PerfMon) is a useful tool to analyze and troubleshoot Maximo performances and is available starting from TPAE 7.1.1.6. This great tool tracks execution times for each browser request (user-click) including the time spent querying DB with a great detail about executed queries and time spent for each sub-step […]
This entry is part of the Maximo Java Development series. Debugging is a great aid in developing Maximo/TPAE customizations in Java. This powerful technique, albeit simple, is too often ignored or neglected by less experienced developers. In this tutorial I will show how to connect Eclipse to a remote Maximo server in debug mode.Here we go. Enable debug […]
Today’s post is very different from a typical MaximoDev technical article. Nevertheless I want to share with my little community my thoughts as a consultant and developer who strongly believes in the Agile Software Development values and principles. Dear Project Managers, I hear you have mixed views about the recent, er, “developments”, in the field […]
This entry is part of the Maximo Integration Framework series. This article explains how to setup and use Web Services capabilities of the Maximo Integration Framework (MIF/MEA).In Maximo there are three different types of services that can be invoked from Web Services: Object Structure, Enterprise and Standard Services. This article will focus on Object Structure […]