Monday, January 27, 2020

Automating processes in a small company using free utilities

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Introduction I want to share some of the automation that I've written for my company to help with some of the back office processing. ...
Monday, January 13, 2020

Using jQuery in Cognos 10.x and DASH

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For most  of what you need, IBM has a great article on how to incorporate jQuery into your Cognos reports here: https://www.ibm.com/develo...
Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Adding an Unauthenticated JSP to IBM Control Desk

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Background We have a customer that needed to allow unauthenticated users to open tickets within IBM Control Desk, and we only had access t...
Monday, December 2, 2019

Creating incident ticket in IBM Control Desk using the new REST API

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Background Maximo 7.6.0.2 introduced a new REST API that can be accessed via .../maximo/oslc . Here's a link to the documentation on i...
Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Special characters in passwords initially configuring IBM Control Desk 7.6.1.1

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Several of the screens displayed by ConfigUI tell you that some passwords don't allow special characters. The rule of thumb I found the ...
Monday, November 4, 2019

Moving to the cloud. Pick any two: Cheap, Fast, or Easy

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The Cloud offers literally all of your current IT services, plus tons more, some of which most of your IT department has never heard of befo...
Friday, September 13, 2019

If you're scripting on Windows, use PowerShell

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My last post on PowerShell was in 2008, so I thought I would write an update. If you're writing scripts on Windows, you should probably ...