IBM Maximo consultant, geek, agile evangelist
After several experiments with IBM Watson IoT Platform I have decided to take a step back and play MQTT manually to really understand how it works. In this post I will walk through my experiments with of the Watson IoT Platform MQTT messaging API for devices, applications and gateways. Prerequisites First of all you need […]
A common requirement is to display the bulletin board messages in a more visible way.A simple solution is to display the formatted message opened by default. To achieve this you can edit the following JSP file: [SMP]\applications\maximo\maximouiweb\webmodule\webclient\components\bulletinboard.jsp On my Maximo 7.5.0.6 i have this line of code at row 335: style=”display:none;overflow:visible” If you change the […]
As I have already discussed in a previous post I always tend to adopt an Agile Development approach in my projects. My own motto is: Start Small, Grow Fast. I always use this as a very simple guiding principle when working on customer projects. Some months ago I came across this nice picture that perfectly […]
In this article I explain how to attach/associate an action to a push button in an application. Create the Action you have to call if not already done (Go To – System Configuration – Platform Configuration – Actions). Open your application with the Application Designer and create a Signature Option with the same name of […]
By default IBM HTTP Server log files always grow. This may be a problem especially on production servers where there is a large amount of HTTP requests that can quickly generate a very big access.log file. This file cannot be deleted without stopping the HTTP Server and can be practically impossible to open with a […]
In some cases you need to be able to web address of Maximo to identify between different environments or systems. For example for the test system you want to change the base URL from the default address: http://mxhost/maximo/ to: http://mxhost/maximotest/ In WebSphere application server this part of the web address is called ‘context root’. It […]
This entry is part of the Maximo Java Development series. Here is a small piece of Java code that can be used to retrieve a Maximo system property in Java using MxServer.getConfig() method. Properties configData = MXServer.getMXServer().getConfig();String prop = configData.getProperty(“mxe.adminEmail”); Replace mxe.adminEmail with your property.
Windows 2008 Server default firewall rules are very restrictive. When installing Maximo or SmartCloud Control Desk on a remote WebSphere installed on a Windows 2008/20012 Server system you may hit some connectivity errors between the Maximo Administrative Workstation and the application server. I have found out you have to open the following ports/protocols: Ping: this […]
Checkout this great series of articles by Richard Lesses describing a step by step guide of the migration of his Maximo development environment. Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4
When using a workflow to drive the status changes of an object in Maximo you shouldn’t allow the users to change the status directly through the ‘Change Status’ action. This could be easily done removing the ‘Change Status’ sigoption from relevant users groups.When users have both options enabled, it may happen that a closed work […]