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  • 1.  Maximo Mobile Performance in MAS 9

    Posted 8 days ago
    Hi everyone,
     
    My client recently deployed MAS 8 but chose not to implement Maximo Mobile due to performance issues, particularly with downloading large amounts of data to devices. I understand that MAS 9 includes performance enhancements for Maximo Mobile.
     
    Has anyone used Maximo Mobile with MAS 9 and observed a significant improvement? Any insights or evidence of better performance would be greatly appreciated.
     
    Thanks.
    George

    #MaximoApplicationSuite

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    George Justo
    Capgemini
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  • 2.  RE: Maximo Mobile Performance in MAS 9

    Posted 8 days ago

    To be honest, I don't know how it was in Maximo 8, but in Maximo 9 how I see enabled gunzip compression of traffic, so it should be faster. For example, in my case list of 2500 Assets loaded in 3 Sec (250Kb uncompressed, 35Kb - compressed). 



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    Andrey Ilinskiy
    Handz.on
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  • 3.  RE: Maximo Mobile Performance in MAS 9

    Posted 7 days ago

    Thanks, Andrew. Unfortunately, our application needs to download a large amount of data (over 200K assets and 50k WO). 



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    George Justo
    Capgemini
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  • 4.  RE: Maximo Mobile Performance in MAS 9

    Posted 7 days ago

    We had the same amount of data, but not using a Mobile Application, and it has taken about 5-7 minutes (we used OSLC integration, same with gzip compression). But, are you sure that users need so big amount of data to be loaded? I can understand that it all should be used offline, but keep on mind, that it will be downloaded only on the first load, but then after only delta will be downloaded. If I am not wrong about Workorders



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    Andrey Ilinskiy
    Handz.on
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  • 5.  RE: Maximo Mobile Performance in MAS 9

    Posted 7 days ago

    50k WOs is not going to be a good performance experience on mobile using the traditional approach. To support offline, we need to fetch attachments, worklog, labor, etc. But in 9.0 we added a mobile-server-search flag that can be set on the datasource to make it initially a connected datasource. Then after records have been fetched, you can work with them locally until searching again. We have one datasource in TECHMOBILE configured for this out of the box but you can add other datasources to TECHMOBILE or the other apps. This allows users to search and retrieve WOs from the server without needing to download every record to the device. The datasource will use the page-size defined on the datasource and will limit the amount of records returned from the server. IE 10,000 WOs might meet the criteria but only 20 would be returned with a message displayed to the user. This page-size is configurable.

    Beyond this feature we added, we are always looking at ways to optimize performance. We've addressed and are continuing to address various performance issues. Without knowing the specific issues leading to their performance issue, it's tough to promise that they'll see a performance improvement. But I can say performance is an area we continue to prioritize. 



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    Steven Shull
    IBM
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  • 6.  RE: Maximo Mobile Performance in MAS 9

    Posted 7 days ago

    Hi Steve,

    I agree that number WO is unreasonable and we are in discuss with the client to reduce the number. However, even with a much smaller number of WO's Maximo mobile on MAS8 did not perform very well. Even the data synchronization was taking minutes and hanging. I am hoping that it is better with  MAS9. 

    Regards

    George



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    George Justo
    Capgemini
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  • 7.  RE: Maximo Mobile Performance in MAS 9

    Posted 2 days ago

    Hi George,

    Have you considered using a preloaded database option for static data such as assets, locations etc?
    This should make that part of the download process much more efficient.


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    mark robbins
    Cohesive
    IBM Champion 2017-2024 Inclusive
    See my blog on Maximo support related topics here:
    https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/maximo-support-advice-from-non-ibm-engineer-article-mark-robbins/
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  • 8.  RE: Maximo Mobile Performance in MAS 9

    Posted yesterday

    Hi Mark,

    Yes, we are now using the preload database and this has helped with the download performance. 

    Regards

    George



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    George Justo
    Capgemini
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