IBM Maximo consultant, geek, agile evangelist
There are many reasons why it is useful sometimes to overwrite a development, test or training system with all the data and customizations from the production system. These are just few examples: Development systems has become dirty after some customization that have not been moved to production. Fresh data is needed on the test system […]
Legacy REST API The REST API are available in Maximo starting from version 7.5.Here is a collection of useful resources to learn how to use REST in Maximo. Official MAM REST API documentation RESTing with Maximo (developerWorks) Using REST API Details (developerWorks) Maximo REST API usage example NextGen REST API The official documentation for the […]
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 […]
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 […]
This entry is part of the Maximo Java Development series. In this post I will describe all the steps needed to execute custom Java code upon the selection of an entry in the action menu or the click of a button in the toolbar. Add a sigoption First you need to create a new sigoption. […]
This is a working Java method that can be used to execute an Oracle stored procedure. It can be linked to standard Mbo methods, application beans, actions, toolbar buttons, etc. public int callOracleProcedure(String procName, int arg1) throws MXException, RemoteException{ int ret; logger.info(“Calling ” + procName + “(” + arg1 + “)”); MXServer mxServer = MXServer.getMXServer(); […]