Best Practices for System Performance 7.5x White Paper
Rick over at developerWorks has posted a white paper on system performances related to TPAE products. If this is something you need, I suggest you take a peak. … Read More
Category: Tips & Tricks
Get database specific date formats for MBO queries
One of the biggest challenges of using MBO's are queries that use date ranges or date values in general. This is because any user can be connected to an Oracle, SQL Server or DB2 instance and they all use dates differently. There is a class called … Read More
Using date ranges in BIRT reports
I have always wondered what the 'operator' field was used for in the report administration application. When you want to use date ranges in BIRT reports, this is exact what it's used for. Here is a link that shows how to extend QBR reports to … Read More
Secure MIF web service methods with native authentication
By default, MIF web services are unsecure, but if you are using native Maximo security and not LDAP, you can secure MIF web services with this configuration change. Normally Web Services and HTTP Servelets are secured using the MEAWEB Web.xml … Read More
How to avoid PM’s from generating during a Holiday
It might be a little bit late here but this is a good post on using active dates on PM's … Read More
Using the AddUser.bat file to add new users
There are a bunch of .bat files that come with Maximo such as "configdb.bat" and many others. Here is one that lets you add users to Maximo just by running this file. Of course, like some of the .bat files, some of these aren't officially supported … Read More
A better way to completely hide ‘new user’ registration on the Maximo login page
I have posted a quick solution before to hide or disable the 'new user' registration link and 'forget password' link, but the issue there is that you can still click on the link if you put your mouse in the right area on the page. It also leaves the … Read More
Create a work order and add labor hours with Maximo REST
You can already create a new work order with REST but it's useless if you can't add labor hours to it right? This tutorial will show you how to setup the MXWO object structure to be able to add LABTRANS records at the same time you create a work … Read More
Add a relationship to a result set portlet in Maximo 7
Here is a nice little tip for when you create a result set portlet, let's say for a list of workorders that are assigned to the current user, and you want to add a related column to the result set. For example, you want the result set to show the … Read More
Creating a work order with Maximo’s REST API framework
In a previous tutorial, querying data use the REST API framework is fairly straight forward and much easier to use than WSDL web services. Now the question is, how do we update or create new records using this API? This tutorial will show you how to … Read More
