So you have secured your Maximo installation using SSL, perhaps by following one of the secure articles in our A3J Blog, and are feeling pretty comfortable that your users are protected. Just as you are about ready to lean back…
The Maximo Integration Framework offers a wide variety of capabilities for publishing or consuming information to or from external systems. Some of the available methods for communication are: Flat File Exchange XML File Exchange with XSLT Mapping Database Table Exchange…
This article will walk a Maximo administrator through the steps necessary to send a purchase order by email to a vendor as an attachment. It is a common requirement by customers to be able to automatically send the PO to…
Whenever there is a problem in Maximo and you describe it to one of your co-workers the first thing they say to you is "what do the logs say?" Logs are the first place to look when you have a…
In our previous posts in this series, we talked about how an MboSet is a collection of Mbo objects. In this article, we'll analyze the different types of exceptions that can be thrown and how each can be utilized. Most…
In the spirit of all those top however many number lists we see populate the internet these days I have complied a top 6 list of things to check if your integration is not working in Maximo. So, no, this…
I've had a lot of conversations recently with folks attempting to implement more Condition Monitoring within their organization. The benefits of shifting from time-based maintenance to condition- or use-based maintenance are well documented and very real. However, making that shift…
In our previous posts in this series, we talked about how an MboSet is a collection of Mbo objects. This is analogous to a spreadsheet of data representing an MboSet, and a single row within that spreadsheet representing an Mbo.…
In our previous posts in this series, we talked about how an MboSet is a collection of Mbo objects. This is analogous to a spreadsheet of data representing an MboSet, and a single row within that spreadsheet representing an Mbo.…
In the ongoing effort to use cool and interesting tools for application and database updating it has been very nice to see the geninsertdbc.bat tool put into practical use. Harnessing these tools to create DBC files can be very advantageous…