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
Maximo products using WebShere and IBM HTTP Server are exposed to potential security exploit (PM46234) (CVE-2011-3192). This exploit allows HTTP requests using byte ranges to contain ranges larger than the size of the file being served. … Read More
If you have setup Maximo to use LDAP authentication and you try to go into the Users application and try to create a new record, you will get this error message: "You are using app server security, therefore you cannot call this method". So what … Read More
Here is a complete rundown of what you need to know about the latest release of Maximo Asset Management 7.5 from IBM. What's New? What's new in IBM Maximo 7.5? IBM Maximo 7.5 preview site (try it quick before IBM takes it … Read More
Recently there have been a lot of questions regarding why suddenly the Maximo 6 go to navigation menu stopped working. The culprit is a Microsoft security update. IBM is aware of this issue and is working on a resolution. The temporary solution is … Read More
Recently IBM has announced a security vulnerability in their asset management applications such as Maximo, and IBM now has a fix for this. Here is an overview of the issue: A critical Java class library security vulnerability was blogged on the … Read More
Here are a couple flash videos with audio from IBM support that show how to setup some conditional security. This first video shows how to configure required fields using attribute restrictions. In this example, a required field is needed when … Read More
There is a Java security related issue in all versions of Java (1.4.2, 5.0. and 6.0). Read this IBM Support post for more... … Read More
