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IBM Maximo Application Suite - Manage Component patch 8.7.3

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Abstract

On 28 December 2023, IBM released IBM® Maximo® Application Suite Manage Component patch 8.7.3.

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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
DT244755 Crontask set up The MasUserReporting Crontask uses username (loginId) instead of _id (userid) with the MAS internalapi.
DT208277 Work Order Tracking In Work Order Tracking, the Work Order record becomes read-only applying nested Job Plans. If the Job Plan has labor, the Work Order is permanently read-only.
DT236752 Companies In the Companies application, moving to a Branch changes the Organization.
DT242600 System UI Logging in to Manage is slow when an oslcmafappdata query executes at login.
DT241650 System UI Adding a company logo and a password reset link causes the Application name not to display on the Login screen.
DT242978 System UI Manual Input active clickable area for a workflow is restricted to the radio button.
DT243604 Mobile Attempts to relogin to Mobile fail with Azure SSO Authentication enabled.
DT245105 Mobile Some Work Orders are inaccessible from Inspections application when their tasks contain the forms.
DT245220 Assets If an Asset is associated to a Location, moving the Asset between Sites does not update the Changed By field correctly.
DT246109 Mobile Inspections do not open from tasks on Work Orders.
DT246516 Mobile Adding a photo attachment to a Work Order causes the app to crash.
DT247599 Mobile When two Persons have the same name, creating a service request in Service Request (SRMOBILE) can cause the wrong person to be recorded as Reported By field. This error occurs in SRMOBILE and the Role-based applications.
IJ30815 Failure codes A Failure Code's description is not saved.
IJ39555 Purchase orders In the Purchase Order application, the Attention field look-up on the "PO Lines" tab displays different results than the Attention field look-up on the "Ship To/Bill To" tab.
IJ40990 Published Channels Company Name is incorrect in Invoice outbound XML.
IJ43773 Purchase orders The value of linecost2 is not calculated correctly in Receiving in an Organization that has base currency and base 2 currency and the Purchase Order with Distributed Cost enabled.
IJ44663 Drilldown When Extended drill-down is enabled, Location drill-down does not work correctly in the Service Requests application.
IJ45106 Email Listeners OAuth Access Tokens larger than 2000 characters cause the e-mail listener cron task to fail with the "ORA-12899: value too large for column" error.
IJ45327 System UI Forcing an error during the Add New Attachment operation with a .zip files results in the file being uploaded, even if the operation is cancelled.
IJ45559 Work Order Tracking WPMaterial.Quantity validation does not handle negative NetIssue quantity correctly.
IJ45613 Location Changing a Location within the hierarchy to an Ancestor above it in the hierarchy and when that Ancestor is a Facility causes missing records in the LOCANACESTOR table.
IJ45665 Purchase requisitions Maximo creates a Purchase Requisition and a corresponding Purchase Order for unsubmitted requisition in status DRAFT.
IJ45718 Storerooms The SITEID of a user's default Storeroom Location is changed when an Inventory Usage for another Site is split clicking the Create Remaining Usage Lines Action.
IJ46120 Job Plans Entering an Item on a Job Plan results in error BMXAA4191 - "The value XXX is not valid for Storeroom. Specify a valid value for Storeroom.".
IJ47091 Inventory The "Disallow Negative Current Balance" and "Disallow Negative Available Balance" settings do not get applied in all scenarios.
IJ47261 Work Order Tracking Adding a Material with insufficient quantity to a Work Order's does not update Task Status.
IJ47472 Message Tracking Performing a Physical Count adjustment sends a transaction to an external system.
IJ47652 Inventory usage Inventory Usage record not updating planned material associated on a Task.
IJ47658 Item Master An Item's Default Vendor in multiple Organizations cannot be set simultaneously.
IJ47732 Item Assembly Structures Setting the Location field in the Move/Modify Asset dialog causes the To Parent field to be cleared for Child assets.
IJ47777 System UI Work Orders with images in .png format that are base 64 encoded do not open.
IJ47915 Work Order Tracking Work Orders generated from Preventive Maintenance have the wrong status and are missing the Lead and Owner values.
IJ47932
Manual Change
Crew Types The "My Bookmarks" dialog in the Crew Types application is not working as expected.
IJ47953 Work Order Tracking Duplicating a Work Order with its Tasks results in error BMXAA5359E - "Please enter a classification for the object before adding a new attribute.".
IJ48343 Item Master The "Numeric Value" field of Assets and Item Master's Specification tab is read-only and the "Alphanumeric Value" is editable after the user changes the data type to Numeric.
IJ48526 Crontask set up PMWOgen fails with the error "java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 0.".
IJ48624 Work Order Tracking In the Work Order Tracking application, Charge to Store functionality assigns cost to the wrong Asset.
IJ48640 Data Sheets The Date Sheet look-up in the "Attach Datasheets" dialog box displays a description, but the description field is blank selecting it.
IJ48712 Install/Upgrade The shell script geninsertdbc.sh does not exist.
IJ48722 System UI Autocomplete doesn't respond and causes the page to hang.
IJ48723 Assets A user cannot change an Asset status from Inactive to Decommissioned.
IJ48731 Graphical Assignment When the server time zone is GMT+0, "Week" zoom is restricted to only 1 week in Graphical Scheduling, Graphical Assignment, and Graphical Assignment - Repair Facilities.
IJ48885 Graphical Work Week In Graphical Work Week, the Resource hours are incorrect when the Labor hours are changed to 0.
IJ48901 Labor If the user and Labor are in a different time zone than the Maximo server, the Assignment Manager application calculates Available hours incorrectly.
IJ48910 Purchase orders When the quantity in the PO/PR line is set to 0, the Unit cost and line cost are changed to 0. However, the tax value, loaded cost and header cost values (pretaxtotal) are not updated.
IJ48951 Invoices When a Purchase Order is created in one currency, and the corresponding invoice in another currency, and there are no Invoice Tolerances defined, the error message generated at invoice approval displays a wrong difference in cost.
IJ49062 Purchase Contracts In the Create (Desktop) Requisition application, when the line type is Standard Service, the Unit Cost is not brought over from the Purchase Contract.
IJ49065 Scheduling Alternate Resources In Scheduling Alternate Resources, attempting to delete an unused resource results in error BMXAT1066E - "The default alternate availability cannot be removed.".
IJ49089 Scheduler The Scheduler application's "Roll Schedule" action is calculating the schedule incorrectly.
IJ49164 Integration The Swagger UI for Maximo is using responseCode in the responses section rather than reasonCode.
IJ49381 System UI The type-ahead list is limited by the first selection made in the browser session.
DT245112 System UI In Mobile Service Requests, after a search returns no records, the subsequent search does not show that the user made a search.
DT245554 Mobile Unable to open applications from the navigator.
DT245970 System UI Entering non-Latin characters causes extra characters to be displayed.
DT247266 System UI Some of the UI screens in applications are in English instead of the language set in the user's locale.
DT247570 Mobile Lost rich text formatting in long description field.
DT248036 Mobile Mobile Manage - Duplicate status in the status list of the Change Status dialog.
IJ48457 Work Order Tracking Batch function for Inspection Form is not working with Work Order Tracking.
Manual Changes
APAR Change instructions
Requires changes in amcrewt.xml file
File location: /maximo/Maximo-7.6-CD/resources/presentations/amcrewt.xml)
Change 1: (UI change displays the wrong label for my bookmark dialog)
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<table id="bookmarks_table" selectmode="single" label="Work Orders" inputmode="readonly" >
to
<table id="bookmarks_table" selectmode="single" label="CrewTypes" inputmode="readonly" >
Change 2: (UI and behavior change)
Change Mark Row for Delete --> Delete (icon help text)
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<tablecol id="bookmarks_table_tablebody_3" type="event" mxevent="toggledeleterow" mxevent_icon="btn_garbage.gif" mxevent_desc="Mark Row for Delete" sortable="false" filterable="false"" hidden="false" />
to
<tablecol id="bookmarks_table_tablebody_delete" type="event" mxevent="instantdelete" mxevent_icon="btn_delete.gif" mxevent_desc="Delete" sortable="false" filterable="false" hidden="false"/>
Behavioral Changes
APAR Change instructions
When the record is deleted in the Bookmark dialog, it is deleted from the database. Implement the change described in Manual Changes, it will only be removed from the Bookmark, not permanently deleted.
 
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 8.7.3
  • Click Save.

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Document Information

Modified date:
24 January 2024

UID

ibm17099901