Debugging BIRT reports can be a pain if you don't know where to start looking. You can't set breakpoints in your report and step through your javascript code, but this code snippet will help with all your report writing needs. … Read More
Problem(Abstract) Idle sessions are not removed after the timeout specified in the web.xml from the MAXSESSION table Symptom Many sessions build up in the MAXSESSION table Cause This is due to session fail over being enabled on the Websphere … Read More
I'm sure most of you have read my post on setting up multiple instances of Maximo, and if you have, you maybe wondering how to setup the JMS buses and queues for MIF to work for each instance. Well, here is a detailed KB article on Configuring JMS … Read More
I recently got a chance to quickly play around with the Create Report button or Query Based Reports (QBR) in Maximo 7. At first look, creating a QBR report can be a bit daunting, but it's actually quite easy to use. This feature is very powerful … Read More
The conditional expression manager is a useful tool to use to conditionally display or hide data or fields. This helpful trick will show you how to make a field required based on some other values in other fields. In previous version of Maximo, … Read More
How to hide data using Attribute Restrictions in the Security Groups application and using the Conditional Expression Manager. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21388291&myns=swgtiv&mynp=OCSSLKTY&mynp=OCSSLKT6&mync=R … Read More
Over the years, I have seen many Maximo instances where the client changes the login page to show whether it is a production environment or a test environment by customizing the login.jsp page as need. Some even add their own images such as their … Read More
Maximo 6.2.5 introduces the support for Internet Explorer 8 and contains a built in functionality that allows Maximo to work well with multi tabbing in IE8. It is supported from 6.2.5 onwards, as well as all for all Maximo 7.x versions. (Note: … Read More
I just found this out and I find it very useful. There is a way for you to search for NULL fields from the Advanced Search dialog or even from the list column within the Work Order Tracking module. You don't have to know SQL to search for NULL cause … Read More
Here is an interesting article on adding a picture to any record within any application. You can add an image to the users application to show their profile or even add an image to an asset. [IBM Support] … Read More
