IBM Maximo consultant, geek, agile evangelist
This post describes how to set an object attribute as mandatory without providing a default value. This is to circumvent what it seems to be a TPAE limitation that prevents to do this from the standard Database Configuration application.Lets make an example. The out-of-the-box attribute PO.VENDOR (Purchase Order – Vendor) is not mandatory. Unfortunately if […]
In version 7.5 of Maximo/TPAE products, you can import and export data from applications. Learn how to enable this feature in this unofficial guide.There is also a nice TechNote from IBM.
Sometimes I had the hard task to debug performance issues of specific Maximo reports. The main thing to understand here is that 95% of the times the problem is related to a long execution time of the underlying SQL query .What I typically do is the following: Look at the ‘Performance’ tab of the Report […]
IBM has just released updated versions of Maximo Performance Best Practices White Papers. This papers provide useful information to improve the performance of all Maximo/TPAE based products wether they are deployed in small, medium, or large scale customer environments.They can be downloaded from IBM developerWorks: Best Practices for System Performance 7.5.x Best Practices for System […]
During my job assignments it often happens that I’m sent to a customer that already has Maximo in production with some customizations in place. One of the problems in such cases is to quickly get an overall picture of how many customizations have been made and what have been customized.One approach that I have found […]
An interesting feature of Maximo crontask is the capability of storing the task execution times. This feature must be enabled in each crontask clicking on ‘Keep history’ checkbox. This is nice feature but Maximo does not provide a graphical tool to analyze crontask performances and execution times so i have prepared a small set of […]
In this post I will show how to enable the lookup functionality for selecting one or multiple values in a report parameter.Instead of creating a new lookup I will show all the necessary configurations looking at the built-in report ‘Inventory Balance’ (inventory_balance_tbl.rptdesign). Enabling lookup in report Open the ‘Report Administration’ application and search for ‘Inventory […]
Sometimes you may develop a custom Maximo application that shows a list of entries in a table. If the application is used frequently and the result set to show is not huge, it could be useful to automatically display the table content without the need to hit enter or click on the search icon.Here is […]
I know that there is an official IBM Technote that already provides a solution to apply a default filter in a given Maximo application.However this solution has some drawbacks. The main problem I see is that using this technique the field filters are not displayed in the application so it could be tricky for the […]
This entry is part of the Maximo Java Development series. A typical need during Maximo application customization is the ability to display a message on the GUI. The first step is to define the custom message. Open the Database Configuration application and select Messages for the Action menu. Create a new entry filling the required […]