Maximo

Maximo 76 Scripting Features guide is a great source of information but it has been released only in PDF format so it’s poorly indexed by Google. I have split it in small articles and shared here in order to be easily searched over the internet. Library Scripts Warnings and Errors Yes/No/Cancel dialog Before Save, After […]

This post is an excerpt from the Maximo 76 Scripting Features guide. Maximo Management Interface provides a set of apis (REST/JSON apis) that helps a system administrator gets some insights on the state of the maximo runtime. The root url for that api is: GET /maximo/oslc And then you can dive deeper into each server […]

This post is an excerpt from the Maximo 76 Scripting Features guide. It’s a common thing to conditionally set some defaults when a new mbo gets added. We have so far leveraged the Object Launchpoint Init event to do that. We would need to check for onadd flag there to make sure we are adding […]

This post is an excerpt from the Maximo 76 Scripting Features guide. Adding validation to the virtual (aka Nonpersistent) mbos (on execute 7609 feature). In this sample we are going use the change status dialog from the Asset Application to validate if the memo is filled in when the Asset status is set to BROKEN. […]

This post is an excerpt from the Maximo 76 Scripting Features guide. Starting 76 we can write scripts for cron tasks too. It follows the same principle as the endpoint handler. We have a cron class – com.ibm.tivoli.maximo.script.ScriptCrontask that helps achieve this. We need to register that class as a new crontask in the crontask […]

This post is an excerpt from the Maximo 76 Scripting Features guide. We can control whether we can add or delete a Mbo using scripting Object Launchpoint “Allow Object Deletion” and “Allow Object Creation”. Can Add This is an Object Launch Point – “Allow Object Creation” where you can control whether you can add a […]

This post is an excerpt from the Maximo 76 Scripting Features guide. Say we want to hold the reference of work order from which we created (copied from) a new work order. We would create a custom attribute called “copiedfrom” in the WORKORDER object. We would then need to customize the duplicate process of the […]

This post is an excerpt from the Maximo 76 Scripting Features guide. Maximo 7.5 scripting supported only the “Before Save” events in the Object Launchpoint. Although that is the most common place where we do customizations, we often see the need to attach some customizations at the after save and after commit events – mostly […]

This post is an excerpt from the Maximo 76 Scripting Features guide. YNC (Yes, No, Cancel) interactions can now be implemented using automation scripts. We need to do some prep work before writing the script. First we need to define a message that support the YNC interaction. Make sure you have the message as informational […]