What can be worse than to redeploy IBM Maximo manually? It is to redeploy it manually on a daily basis or, even worse, to do it several times a day. At the very beginning this process may seem a sacred activity but it quickly becomes a routine which distracts with it high amount of simple yet manual steps. It may be especially annoying in a development environment were you frequently need to try a new functionality. A number of simple and repetitive actions looks like a perfect candidate for automation. And that's were WebSphere's wsadmin scripting tool comes in handy.
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Month: March 2017
Using Java to start/stop workflow in Maximo
Sometimes you may need to start a workflow automatically but the standard functionality of escalation is not satisfying the needs of business logic.
For such situations you can use a cron task to search the records and system service WorkFlowService to start a workflow.
For instance, we need to start a workflow (process name PMWF) for periodical maintenance record (custom mbo PMCUST) when there comes a time specified in PLANNEDYEAR, PLANNEDWEEK attributes.
Here is an example of the cron task:
If you need to stop a workflow in java code, first you should get the workflow instance.
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