IBM Maximo consultant, geek, agile evangelist
As you probably know, in recent versions of Maximo IBM has introduced a new look of the user interface.The two available skins are called classic and tivoli09. The following screenshots show the two looks. Skin: classic Skin: tivoli09 The new skin is available starting from Maximo 7.1.1.5 although it may not be set as the default one.You […]
This entry is part of the Maximo Java Development series. A very common doubt when extending MBOs is what value returns the Mbo.getString() method when the target field has a null value. The answer is: It returns an empty string “”.Thus to check if the DESCRIPTION of an Mbo is empty or null you can […]
An outstanding set of articles about how to configure and use the Maximo Email Listener with GMail are available on IBM Asset Management blog.Here are the links: Importing the SSL Certificate Configuring SMTP Over SSL Sending Service Requests
When you have to assess the system performance of a Maximo server it may be useful to have a quickly see what are the larger database tables and indexes. This can quickly spot some performance issues in your system.Large tables generates heavy database I/O workloads when are nor accesses through an index. Large indexes are also inefficient. Creating indexes with too […]
Maximo Activity Dashboard (also known as MAD or PerfMon) is a useful tool to analyze and troubleshoot Maximo performances and is available starting from TPAE 7.1.1.6. This great tool tracks execution times for each browser request (user-click) including the time spent querying DB with a great detail about executed queries and time spent for each sub-step […]
This entry is part of the Maximo Integration Framework series. This article explains how to setup and use Web Services capabilities of the Maximo Integration Framework (MIF/MEA).In Maximo there are three different types of services that can be invoked from Web Services: Object Structure, Enterprise and Standard Services. This article will focus on Object Structure […]
This entry is part of the Maximo Integration Framework series. In this tutorial I will show how easy it is to query and update data in Maximo using the Integration Framework (MIF) Object Structure Services using a simple HTTP client. HTTP test client setupA great tool for creating sample test HTTP requests is a great […]
What web browsers can be used to access Maximo?Roughly speaking, Maximo supports only Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. Said that… I currently use Google Chrome with Maximo. Pages load faster and it works perfectly 99% of the times (except for reports).The following table gives a quick overview of the current supported web browser versions. Base Services version 6.2 […]
In the following table I have listed the most important terms and acronyms that are commonly used in the Maximo/TPAE world. Term Description BIRT Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools is an Open Source software embedded in TPAE that provides reporting. CCMDB IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Management Database (official product page). EAM Enterprise Asset Management. […]
There are five ways to set the default value of a field in Maximo. Database Configuration The first way is to set the default value at the database level using Database Configuration.All you have to do is the object and then the attribute for which the default is to be set. In the right hand side of the […]