IBM Maximo consultant, geek, agile evangelist
A common requirement from my clients is to track how much time work orders have been in each status. IBM Maximo already has the Work Order History dialog that displays the date and time of each status change. Unfortunately it may be not straightforward for a user to calculate the time spent in each step […]
One of the fist lessons I have learned through all these years as Maximo consultant is that every time there is a default value for a field the user will not change it. A very common example of this is the Folder field of the Add Attachment dialog. The value of this field will always […]
Maximo has a well known feature to display the history of where an asset was located. It is accessible from View Asset Move History from the Asset application.In the following example the asset DS01-A-002 was created in location DS01-S-SA-01 and then moved to other two locations. The data displayed in this dialog is stored in the ASSETTRANS […]
I have to admit, I’m a big fan of automation scripts.Recent updates released with Maximo 7.6.0.9 have almost covered all the possible customization needs including library scripts, REST APIs, MIF processing, before/after save event. All the new features are well documented in this somewhat secret document. However whatever nice feature will be added in the […]
Today I had to face an issue deleting a large set of records from a Maximo table using an automation script. My script was something like this. mboSet = MXServer.getMXServer().getMboSet(“MYTABLE”, mbo.getUserInfo())mboSet.deleteAll()mboSet.save() Unfortunately the table I had to purge (MYTABLE in the example) was having more than 5000 rows so when I launched the script I […]
In a previous post I have explained how to force the reload of a the start center for a specific group of users.I have now developed a useful automation script that can be invoked from the Security Group application to automatically perform this task with just one click.Register the script as a Script with an […]
We all know that Maximo allows the definition of new internal values for synonym domains. A common example is the LOCTYPE domain that defines the allowed values for the LOCATIONS.TYPE field.If we want to implement a special business logic for the OPERATING type of locations we can write something like this in our automation script. loctype […]
In my last project I had to implement a customization to send SMS messages using Skebby. The service APIs are obviously based on REST and JSON so I ended up writing an automation script to integrate Maximo with the Skebby service.In the process of writing the code I have faced (and solved) some interesting issues […]
We all know how flexible Security Groups are when dealing with user roles and granting application authorizations. However, flexibility often brings complexity.You have carefully designed user’s roles defining what applications and actions they are allowed to access in Maximo and implemented all using Security Groups application. The system goes live and after one or two […]
We all know Maximo is a complex product. It has plenty of features and is very flexible but sometimes complex to manage especially when system performances are poor.A lot of things may affect the perceived performances of Maximo and it may be hard to have an overview of the entire system configuration. What are the […]