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As you probably know, in recent versions of Maximo IBM has introduced a new look of the user interface.The two available skins are called classic and tivoli09. The following screenshots show the two looks. Skin: classic Skin: tivoli09 The new skin is available starting from Maximo 7.1.1.5 although it may not be set as the default one.You […]
This entry is part of the Maximo Java Development series. In this little article I’m going to show how to display a dialog box with Yes/No or OK/Cancel buttons and how to capture the user’s input to execute some custom logic. For example, you have a Java method attached to a button on the toolbar […]
MaximoDev has now reached 100 posts of useful tips, tutorials and small guides to help the Maximo technical community.After more than 2 years of MaximoDev activity, I have achieved an incredible success becoming the most followed and visited free and ads-free web site about IBM Maximo features, configuration, customization and development topics.To explain you the […]
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 […]