IBM Maximo consultant, geek, agile evangelist
Work Logs are a very useful feature in Maximo and Control Desk products to allow users to keep notes of the progress of work. A very nice feature of work logs is that Maximo displays all work logs for the current record an related ones. Lets make an example. If there is a work log […]
Maximo has a feature that automatically populates the asset when a user enters a location and viceversa. This is a feature may be useful for most clients but some other clients don’t like this behavior. Unfortunately Maximo does not have a built in switch to disable this. The best solution to solve the problem is […]
There are several situation where you need to quickly notify a set of users sending them an email. These are few examples of such situations. There is a urgent maintenance activity to perform on Maximo that requires to enable the admin mode and logoff all the users. You are going to rollout an additional validation […]
This is an old post that uses a legacy version of MxLoader that only supports only OS service. For MAS Manage please refer to this post. Creating and maintaining the hierarchy of failure codes in Maximo can be quite long and boring task using the standard Failure Codes application. The easiest and fastest way of […]
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 […]