MAS 9.1.18 Patch Day: The Kafka CVE That Quietly Misroutes Messages, and the Six Other APARs You Should Care About
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maximo-health
Maximo Health 9.0.20 and Condition Insight: From FMEA Spreadsheet to 30-Second Asset Briefing in 90 Days
A practical 90-day rollout playbook for Maximo Health 9.0.20 + Condition Insight at a brownfield site, with concrete health contributor formulas, condition insight prompt patterns, the IoT-to-Monitor wiring, and the data quality gates that prevent garbage-in-garbage-out.
maximo-mobile
Maximo Mobile 9.1 and MX-Edge: The Offline-First Restructure That Changes Field Workflow Economics
How the new MX-Edge offline-first architecture and the 9.1 meter reading restructure change field economics, with patterns for site that serve remote or intermittent-connectivity areas, conflict resolution rules, and the GPS+barcode workflow patterns that cut 18 minutes per route.
maximo-manage
Maximo Manage 9.1 Cron Task Tuning: The Five Misconfigurations That Steal Your Nightly Window
A practitioner's catalog of the five most common cron task misconfigurations in Maximo Manage 9.1.x, with concrete fix patterns, JVM heap math, Java 17 compatibility flags, and the escalation playbook for cron lock contention.
mas-9-1
MAS 9.1 Integration Architecture: When to Use Kafka, OSLC, REST, Webhooks, and App Connect (Decision Tree Inside)
A decision framework for choosing between Kafka, OSLC, REST, webhooks, and App Connect in MAS 9.1.x, with concrete patterns for the CVE-2026-35554 hardening, OIDC SSO for cross-trust integrations, and the Kafka vs webhook vs REST performance benchmarks at 10k events/sec.
Industries
MAS 9.1 in the Wild: What Spendrups, NYPA, Aviation Operators, and Public Sector Deployments Built Differently
A practitioner survey of how Spendrups Bryggeri, NYPA, wind and solar operators, airport operators, and federal agencies are actually deploying MAS 9.1, with the asset class configurations, regulatory overlays, and renewal pattern differences that make each vertical distinct.
MaximoWorld
MaximoWorld 2026 (Aug 17-20 Nashville), TechXchange (Oct 26-29 Atlanta), and the Q3-Q4 Community Calendar: A Practitioner's Guide
A practitioner's guide to the Q3 and Q4 2026 Maximo community events, with session recommendations, the MaximoWorld 2026 agenda highlights, the regional Maximo User Group calendar, and how to make the most of the IBM TechXchange conference as a Maximo attendee.
maximo-ai-assistant
Maximo AI Assistant and watsonx Orchestrate: Active Prompting Patterns That Move Reliability Briefings From 60% to 92% Accuracy
A working practitioner's guide to active prompting for Maximo AI Assistant and watsonx Orchestrate, with concrete prompt patterns, the four-step active prompting loop applied to Maximo condition briefings, and the production cost model for AI Service AppPoint consumption.
maximo-apm
Maximo Condition Insight in Production: Turning FMEA Data Into a 30-Second Asset Briefing
How to operationalize the Maximo Condition Insight agentic AI capability across Maximo Health, Predict, and Monitor, with FMEA mapping patterns, work order auto-generation rules, and field-tested prompts.
maximo-mobile
Maximo Mobile 9.1 Meter Reading: The Offline-First Restructure That Changes Field Workflows
How the 9.1 meter reading restructure (asset/location level instead of work order level) changes data integrity, offline support, and saved query configuration, with field patterns from production rollouts.
maximo-manage
BIRT Reports and Cron Tasks in Maximo Manage 9.1: A Field-Tested Pattern Library
Twelve production-ready patterns for BIRT reports and cron tasks in MAS 9.1, including Java 17 compatibility, BIRT 4.9 upgrade notes, scheduled KPI rollups, and report queue tuning.
mas-9-1
MAS 9.1 AppPoints Optimization: A 12-Month FinOps Playbook for Customer-Managed Deployments
How to model, monitor, and reclaim AppPoints across MAS 9.1 with a quarterly reserve-vs-concurrent tuning cycle, OpenShift resource right-sizing, and Data Reporter Operator telemetry.