IBM Maximo consultant, geek, agile evangelist
What web browsers can be used to access Maximo?Roughly speaking, Maximo supports only Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. Said that… I currently use Google Chrome with Maximo. Pages load faster and it works perfectly 99% of the times (except for reports).The following table gives a quick overview of the current supported web browser versions. Base Services version 6.2 […]
This entry is part of the Maximo Integration Framework series. If you have never used the Maximo Integration Framework you have to check the MIF configuration before being able to play with it. System Properties All the configuration parameters for MIF can be managed from the System Properties application: GoTo -> System Configuration -> Platform Configuration -> […]
In the following table I have listed the most important terms and acronyms that are commonly used in the Maximo/TPAE world. Term Description BIRT Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools is an Open Source software embedded in TPAE that provides reporting. CCMDB IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Management Database (official product page). EAM Enterprise Asset Management. […]
This entry is part of the Maximo Java Development series. In this post I will describe how to minimize the time needed to redeploy the custom Java code in Maximo running on WebSphere during the development phase. Note: The techniques explained in this article (except the first one) are recommended only for development environments. Here […]
The Mbo class exposes a lot of setValue methods but we can categorize them in two big groups. The first group accepts only two arguments that are the name of the attribute to be set and its value. The second group of methods have three arguments that allows to pass an additional accessModifier flag.The values that can be passed into […]
There are five ways to set the default value of a field in Maximo. Database Configuration The first way is to set the default value at the database level using Database Configuration.All you have to do is the object and then the attribute for which the default is to be set. In the right hand side of the […]
Conditional Expressions can be used in TPAE applications in several ways. One powerful feature of Conditional Expressions is the capability of creating dynamic queries using substitution variables. Here is the complete list of variables available in Maximo. :YES – True :NO – False :&DATE& – Current date :&DATETIME& – Current date/time :&USER& – Logged in user (or […]
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You are in the middle of a Mbo class and you have to perform some logic only if your piece of code is invoked by a user sitting in front of of Maximo UI.How would you understand if the Mbo method has been invoked by an interactive user session or by a background process like […]
This entry is part of the Maximo Java Development series. In this article I will describe how to call Maximo business objects methods remotely using a Java RMI connection. This technique can be useful to integrate Maximo in custom applications written in Java or to perform a particular processing of data stored in Maximo database […]