One of the metrics commonly adopted by an organization early in their reliability journey is the Preventive Maintenance Compliance metric.[^92032] The goal of the metric is to understand how effective the maintenance and operations teams are getting PM actions completed. The goal is to get at least 90% of …

I've continued to experiment with the use of Maximo BIRT's hidden parameter. In my previous post I was able to display values that were generated by related information of the Maximo user who ran the report. But the original data selection used the hidden username parameter in the SQL where …

One of the common queries used by Maximo power users is:

siteid = (select defsite from maxusers where userid = :user)

This selection limits records to the default site the current Maximo user is checked into. So if a query is saved for future use, it will work with any site a …

One of the efforts I'm making as we head into 2020¹ is data consistency. I started looking at some of our key reports and noticed that as our maturity evolved, our reports evolved as well, but sometimes in a disjointed way. We'd discover a new technique in BIRT or …

This is complete a personal reference for Maximo BIRT Reporting. The information is originally sourced from IBM's Report Developer Guide v7.1 PDF file. ¹

The following chart shows the database type, the corresponding BIRT Data Type, and the method used within the BIRT Designer to retrieve its value. This …