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IBM Maximo Application Suite - Manage Component patch 8.7.8

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Abstract

On 5 June 2024, IBM released IBM® Maximo® Application Suite Manage Component patch 8.7.8.

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Manage and Mobile APAR and Known Issue Fixes
When an APAR or Known Issue has Manual Change in the first column, click the link or go to the Manual Changes section for directions.
When an APAR or Known Issue has Behavior Change in the first column, click the link or go to the Behavioral Changes section for information.
 
APAR Application Name Description
DT196755
Manual Change		 Inventory Users can return an Item to Inventory using a different Work Order than the one used to Issue it.
DT258976 Install/Upgrade In a Manage environment using Japanese (JA) as the base language, Manage activation does not complete after upgrading Manage from 8.7.0 to 8.7.1.
DT260445 System UI In an environment Maximo and Mobile upgraded to the latest version, no Mobile Role-based applications open.
DT260474 Mobile The Maximo Mobile Windows debuggable application hangs connecting to Maximo Application Suite.
DT260753 System UI Details field value disappears for Service Request created from "Create Service Request" application when "View detail" button is clicked.
DT270212 System UI When Horizontal Labels are enabled through the System Property mxe.webclient.label.orientation, clicking the label does not open the tooltip.
DT276242 System UI Modify E-Signature Key Option should be removed from the menu.
DT276997 Graphical Scheduling "The system is taking too long to process your query" error in Graphical View on Graphical Scheduling application.
DT364287 Mobile Creating a Work Order with a Problem Cause Remedy code results in a system error.
DT364292 Mobile When updating Failure attributes for a Work Order created on a device, the order in which the attributes are displayed changes.
DT364324 Meters Generating Work Orders with Meters from Preventive Maintenance results in errors BMXAA6714E, BMXAA3212E and BMXAA6713E.
DT365111 Mobile Saving a Work Order causes a NullPointerException to occur, but the Work Order is still created.
DT365321 Graphical Scheduling Saving a Preventive Maintenance schedule results in error BMXAT0048E.
DT365479 Graphical Work Week Moving Assignments several times does not always update the scheduled Start and Finish dates in the Work Order.
DT365534 Mobile Loop error when redirecting url.
DT365535 Mobile Maximo Mobile filters show invalid Assets, Locations and Work Type in TECHMOBILE/SUPMOBILE.
DT365622 Mobile Asset and Location filter does not display correct details.
DT365747 Workflow Designer Validating a Workflow Process that references a non persistent field results in errors BMXAA4442E, BMXAA4455E and BMXAA8882E.
DT365862 Mobile In Mobile Technician application, creating multiple Work Orders results in error BMXAA8816E - "The URI context temp_href is not supported as the URI that was provided is invalid.".
DT365902 Cron Task Setup MobileDbGeneration cron task fails with java heap space error with table domains. Mobile EAM clients will need to move to 7.6.1.3 interim fix 020.
DT378271 Mobile Attaching a file with a long name throws an error in the Mobile Windows app.
DT378403 Mobile Creating a Work order from a Mobile device, if multiple transactions remain in a pending state, the application is sending a bad transaction, updating an existing Work Order.
DT378465 System UI In the Start Center, accented characters in a User's display name do not render correctly
DT378545 System UI The user is taken to IBM Maximo Application Suite home page despite clicking "Cancel" on the redirect popup.
DT378606 Mobile In the Inspections application, the image from signature is cut off from thumbnail.
DT378865 Mobile Search does not allow use of wild cards.
DT379894 Mobile Meter readings are not showing against Locations when the Meter reading was added via an Inspection Form.
DT379928 Mobile Mobile application does not adhere to MAS refreshTokenTimeout value.
DT379929 Mobile In SRMOBILE, the Reported Date on SR Detail Page does not reflect the correct time zone.
DT380159 Mobile Saving a new Work Order on Mobile results in error BMXAA4153E - "Null is not a valid site.".
DT380206 System UI Modifying Default Site Information does not update the Start Center page header.
DT380242 Mobile In a lookup list of Assets, the count of locations is incorrect.
DT380345 Mobile There are two touchpoints on the Maximo Mobile Asset Manager application that do nothing.
DT380356 Install/Upgrade Maximo for IT cannot be installed in air-gapped environment
DT380782 System UI The Work Log list overlays the expanded Work Log submission screen.
DT380979 Linked Documents/Attached Documents In environments where the System Property mxe.doclink.maxfilesize  is set to 0, files cannot be uploaded as attachments in Mobile.
DT381109 Mobile Multiple transactions remain in a pending state when creating a Work Order from a Mobile device and the application sends bad transactions, updating existing Work Orders.
DT381373 Mobile In the Technician role-based application, Domain values from other Organizations and Sites are shown in the "Add Item" Transaction Type list.
DT381374 Mobile Starting a Work Order in the Technician role-based application results in error BMXAA4024E, because a default Domain exists in a different Organization.
DT381839 Mobile The error Record doesn't have an href when one is expected Rejecting transaction." occurs creating one Work Order after another.
DT381886 Mobile The Work Order Tasks badge displays an incorrect count of Tasks.
Behavioral Changes
APAR Change details
A new System Property was added to resolve this Issue called mxe.app.inventory.enablewonumcheckforreturn.
-- When mxe.app.inventory.enablewonumcheckforreturn is set to 0, Item Return to the Inventory using a different Work Order than the one used to dispatch the Inventory Item is allowed. This is the default behavior as Maximo.
-- When mxe.app.inventory.enablewonumcheckforreturn is set to 1, Item Return to the Inventory using a different Work Order than the one used to dispatch the Inventory Item is not allowed.
Manual Changes
APAR Change instructions
To add the new message for mxe.app.inventory.enablewonumcheckforreturn, follow these steps:
-- Log into Manage as an administrative user.
-- Go to the Database Configuration Application (System Configuration -> Platform Configuration -> Database Configuration.
-- In the More Actions section, click Messages.
-- Click the New Row icon (plus sign inside a circle)
-- For the new row, enter these details:
     Message Group: inventory
     Message Key: cannotReturnIssueToWonum
     Display Method: MSGBOX
     Message ID Prefix: BMXAA
     Message ID Suffix: E
     Display ID?: Checked
     Value: The material cannot be returned because it was not issued to work order {0}.
     Buttons OK?: Checked
When finished, click OK.
 
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Manually Installing the Patch
  • Log in to Maximo Application Suite Administration as an administrative user.
  • On the left, click Applications.
  • From the Action menu, select Update configuration.
  • In the dialog box, click the pencil icon on the Components line.
  • Under Activation configuration, click your workspace details page link.
  • From the Action menu, select Update configuration.
  • Under Configurations, click the pencil icon on the Components line.
  • In the Maximo Base line, under new version click the down arrow.
  • Select Version. Enter 8.7.8
  • Click Save.

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Document Information

Modified date:
21 June 2024

UID

ibm17154838

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