IBM Maximo consultant, geek, agile evangelist
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 […]
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.