IBM Maximo consultant, geek, agile evangelist
A common need is to differentiate Maximo production, test, development environments.The easiest technique I know is to customize the login and header messages.Open Database Administration application and select the Messages action. Search for ‘welcome’ and change the messages in the ‘login’ group as you wish. The welcome message is displayed on the login page, the […]
Maximo 7.6 has a lot of interesting features. One of these is the new installation technology.Richard Lesses has published a useful set of articles with a step-by-step guide of how to install Maximo 7.6. Installing Maximo 7.6: A first look, part 1Installing Maximo 7.6: A first look, part 2Installing Maximo 7.6: A first look, part […]
Many times Maximo users and administrator lacks database skills. These are important in several situations: Write ‘where clause’ statements to filter data in Maximo UI. Develop complex SELECT statements to extract data from multiple tables when developing report. Optimize existing queries to solve performance issues. If you need to improve your SQL skills I suggest […]
You probably know that Preventive Maintenance module in Maximo allows to schedule periodical maintenance activities in order to keep your assets running efficiently.In other words you can use the Preventive Maintenance to schedule the automatic generation of work orders. Work orders can be generated manually using the ‘Generate Work Orders’ action in the Preventive Maintenance […]
Some fields in Maximo are linked to a domain that allows to set its value from a predefined set of values. In some cases however, when the value does not provide enough information, you may wish to also display the description of the domain value that you have chosen. For example lets consider the STATUS […]
To add the long description to the message of an email sent through a communication template you have to perform a few configuration steps. The example below is related to WORKORDER object but can be applied to any main object. First of all you have to create a relationship in Database Configuration between the WORKORDER […]
I am proud to announce the release of MxLoader on developerWorks. This is a great tool I have developed to help me in my day-to-day job as a Maximo specialist. MxLoader is a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that allows to quickly and easily query and load data into IBM Maximo, IBM SmartCloud Control Desk (SCCD) and […]
Yes these are very busy days for me and probably for you all. But don’t worry I will start publishing new articles soon.In the meanwhile you can enjoy watching those two videos from my fellow colleague Andreas. Jobplan demo (3:03 min) Offerings/pricebook demo (2:32 min)
Today my fellow colleague Andreas Dietrich has discovered a nice little utility that is shipped with Windows 7 which I think can help you guys in several ways.The Windows 7 “Problem Step Recorder” can be used for example to document installations or to provide as best practise for ticket documentation.This little utility (psr.exe) should be […]
One of the customer that I’m working with is heavily relying on work logs. Unfortunately, the work logs are displayed in a standard table so there is no way of quickly displaying all the logs entered by the users. The solution I have designed is a QuickSummary tab in the Work Order Tracking application that […]