Maximo links of interest

List of featured documents for IBM Maximo Asset Management: Parameters to improve performance using WebSphere 6.0.2.x (1261874) Maximo 6.x and WebSphere recommendations for performance improvements relating to memory use. LDAP Troubleshooting … Read More

Extending Maximo Business Objects (MBO)

Extending MBO's gives you the ability to add more functionality to Maximo to better fit any business need.  I have found a good article on the basics of extending MBO's in Maximo 6. The same principle apply if you want to extend objects for Maximo … Read More

Change location/asset drilldown limit

Have you been in the location or asset drilldown dialog box and seen the node "...This level has reached the set display limit..."? That is because the drilldown limit for child nodes is set to 50. You can change this limit to 5 or even 200. This is … Read More

Extra fields vs Crossover fields

In Maximo, you can use extra fields to store extra data and crossover fields is just an added functionality.  For example, in the asset table, there are extra fields such as eq1, eq2... and so forth.  These fields are there for you to use at your own … Read More

Edit dialogs within Application Designer

I received a great question about editing fields in the "Advanced Search" dialog in the Application Designer, but where can you find that dialog so you can edit it?  Here is the question at hand: I am in the System Configuration - Application … Read More

Import data with Maximo Enterprise Adapter (MEA)

There aren't many differences between Maximo 6's MEA and Maximo 7's MIF. If you read my previous post on importing data with MIF, then it will be easier to understand how MEA works. The architecture is pretty much the same but some minor name … Read More

“Turn Smart Fill Off?” option in Maximo 6.2

Many users don't often know about the Smart Fill option in Maximo 6.2 and what it does.  Here is a summary from IBM's support website: The Smartfill functionality in Maximo works in the following capacity. Once smartfill has been enabled, and when … Read More

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