Total Resource ManagementRulesManager New Features

August 21, 2012Al Johnson, VP RulesManager Architecht

New Features Single View into All Maximo Business Logic Team Integration & Source Control Rule Reporting Wizard New Enhanced, Intuitive UI Elements The return of Focus Order Scripting Console Remote Web Server Console Live Rule Debugger

New Window into Business Logic Rule Explorer View allows a single View for Rules and Maximo Configurations:

Condition Expressions Maximo AutoScripts And RulesManager Rules (as always )

Clicking on a Conditional Expression or AutoScript takes you directly to that entity’s Maximo Configuration page.

Clicking on RulesManager Rule opens the RM Editor.

Team Integration & Source Control Rule Files are now Source Control Compatible in Eclipse

SVN (Sub-version) Visual Source Safe CVS

(please don’t) Any Eclipse capable Source Control System

History, Revisioning, Check-in, Check-out with multiple developers RM Support offers a free VM with a fully functioning SVN server and

preconfigured repository for customers’ use.

Rule Reporting Wizard New Wizard in RulesManager Developer creates a spread-sheet to show all

configured rules. Sheets can be organized by any parameter (App, Group, Site, etc) so that each

sheet in the spreadsheet will contain all Rules for the sheet’s condition. Report can contain “Maximo” core logic configured in Conditional Expressions

and AutoScripts.

Enhanced UI Wizard Control Picker

No longer needs to use Application Designer in Maximo to figure out the names for controls, tabs, sections. Etc.

Selecting “Use App Wizard” while building a rule presents you with a local (fast) representation of the Maximo presentation you’re configuring

The Return of “Field Ordering” Maximo has no facility to allow you to set “Tab Order” on an application’s page

(They fall out in “Presentation Order”) RulesManager offered this capability in Version 5, but was forced to drop it

in Version 6 of Maximo due to IBM’s major redesign of the UI. Due to an overwhelming number of customer request, we have reimplemented

Scripting Console A JavaScript live console connected directly to your Maximo Instance directly

in RulesManager Developer. Vastly accelerate development of rules by allowing scripted access to the

remote server. Test rule snippets and logic directly in this new Console Inspect or Modify any Maximo MboSet directly in the Rule Writing Environment.

Remote Server Console Not All Rule Developers can get access to the Maximo Log files from the remote serve

Especially true in SaaS or Hosted environments Sometimes due to IT constraints and procedures

Click on your Server connection in RulesManager Developer and “Open Remote Console”

Connects immediately directly to the Maximo Logging Stream All Console output written to the server logs is fed live to your log console

in your Rule Writing Session.

Live Rule Debugging Set Break Points in Rules Navigate in Maximo to a test case The Debugger Perspective activates and you can single step and Debug the Rule

Next Release

RulesManager Studio for Maximo Intelligent Rule Tags

All Rules will be configurable to contain any number of Defined Attributes i.e. “Requirement #”, “Last Modified By”, “Tested By”, “Tested Date”

Rule Editors will contain a “Property Sheet” where Rule Writers will fill in the Defined Attributes

Enhanced Rule Reporting Rule Reports can now contain All previous capability with the addition

Of User Defined Fields MIF Integration

Scriptable MIF – RulesManager scripts for UserExits and much eased Configuration of the entire subsystem in the Rules Developer.

Questions?

TRM’s RulesManager

• Allows Maximo to be substantially configured while remaining “out-of-the-box.”

• Requires no Java programming. • Incorporates a real-time debugger for developers.• As the only product in the market, addresses Maximo life

cycle management.

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• Allows all rules configured in one version of Maximo to operate in subsequent versions.

• Allows Maximo to be bridged with external environments, including JDBC, FTP, HTTP, JavaScript, Web Services, etc.

• Provides a powerful standalone scripting engine for bulk data loading.

RulesManager dramatically reduces the time, cost and risks of implementing, configuring and managing the lifecycle of Maximo.

• Implementation time for Maximo configurations reduced by 40-60%.

• Development time for custom applications for Maximo reduced by 50%.

• Maximo upgrade costs reduced by 60-70%.