Maximo Quest

Greetings, Automation Scripting is a powerful tool in Maximo that can be used to customize the Out Of Box (OOB) behavior of Maximo without the need to deploy any class file which requires downtime of the system. While automation script provides the ability to write code into multiple different languages and their versions like Python, Jython, JavaScript, and Nashhorn, etc. Python/Jython remains the most popular language they use. One of the most powerful features of Python is the availability of reusable libraries available to achieve many tasks. Many times a requirement need an external library to be called Automation Scripting which can be done much more easily with Maximo 7.6.1.2 onwards. In this use case, we have written an action script that will be called when the user presses the Test button on the Work Order application. This automation script contains the logic to call another external file with the name externalPy.py. We create a folder in the application server and place...

Greetings! Maximo 7.6 has lot of additional capabilities added in Tivoli Automation Engine as compared to older versions of Maximo which aim to allow users to make change in applications for small requirements without actually going to customization route. Automation scripts is one of such tool given for users and technical developers to change the behavior of Maximo in case where functionalities can't be changed only via use of configuration. If we have a requirement to populate some field on basis of other fields , we can easily do that with automation script but in order to do that you still need to have knowledge of Jython or Javascript to write the logic. Maximo formula is one the tool given by IBM which can be used for such business requirements and user can make changes to Maximo logic via configuration without getting into difficulties of coding. Formulas are available from Maximo version 7603. With release of Maximo version 7606, there has been addition of new capabil...