IBM Maximo consultant, geek, agile evangelist
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 […]
This entry is part of the Maximo Java Development series. In this post I have explained how to query and fetch MBOs from the database. In this small article I will show how to get and set the attributes of an Mbo. How to read attributes To read the attributes of an Mbo you can […]
This entry is part of the Maximo Java Development series. To query a Maximo table using Java you need to perform the following steps: Get a reference to the MboSet. Specify a where clause. Loop through the MboSet and fetch Mbos. The following example shows how to retrieve all the assets located in BEDFORD site. […]
Today I want to share with you all a very efficient technique that I use to test email notifications and communication templates in workflows. The technique is based on a very lightweight dummy SMTP server called smtp4dev that can run on any Windows system. This small application sits in the system tray and does not […]