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RulesManager New Features
August 21, 2012
Al Johnson, VP RulesManager Architecht
New Features
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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:
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Condition Expressions
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Maximo AutoScripts
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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.
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Team Integration & Source Control
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Rule Files are now Source Control Compatible in Eclipse
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SVN (Sub-version)
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Visual Source Safe
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CVS
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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.
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Rule Reporting Wizard
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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
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Control Picker
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No longer needs to use Application Designer in Maximo to figure out
the names for controls, tabs, sections. Etc.
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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”
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Maximo has no facility to allow you to set “Tab Order” on an application’s page
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(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
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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
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Not All Rule Developers can get access to the Maximo Log files from the remote serve
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Especially true in SaaS or Hosted environments
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Sometimes due to IT constraints and procedures
Click on your Server connection in RulesManager Developer and “Open Remote Console”
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Connects immediately directly to the Maximo Logging Stream
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All Console output written to the server logs is fed live to your log console
in your Rule Writing Session.
Live Rule Debugging
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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
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Intelligent Rule Tags
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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
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Rule Reports can now contain All previous capability with the addition
Of User Defined Fields
 MIF Integration
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Scriptable MIF – RulesManager scripts for UserExits and much eased
Configuration of the entire subsystem in the Rules Developer.
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Questions?
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TRM’s RulesManager
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 6070%.
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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.