maximo76

There is direct entitlement to the Cognos BI Server products, along with enhanced meta data creation (cognos packages) and delivered reports and workspaces. YEA!

Lots of demo recordings here

https://www.youtube....

Great way to easily analyze Maximo data!

By the way, went through this youtube channel a few days ago...seems great! Well done and thank you

Excellent Neil! Thank you for the feedback!

Great to hear! Pam put lots of work into these

Thanks Dave!

We do not use Cognos.

Oh....I LOVED this question! : )

I love Ad Hoc reports!

not sure - can you remind us of some the new ad hoc features?

I love developers who own their product!

@bgbaird - isn't it great!

In 76, you can add calculations to reports, add summaries and apply preview limits for performance improvements

There are lots of demo recordings on 76 ad hoc at our new You Tube Site https://www.youtube....

I wish I could say our users will run with it....BUT.....I know I will use it.

@alacy88 Excellent!

When I presented at MUWG people liked being able to use the Adhoc as a foundation for other 'full' Birt reports...

Is it possible to use Non-Persistent fields in reports?

No -- Reports only use persistent fields

The #maximo76 You Tube site is full of great information.

the calculations will reduce some. But I see it as more likely that the use of the ad hoc reports will grow greatly. I also see the performance improvements as a big plus, like limits and more reliable job cancellation.

Is there a best practice on what should be done when we need to show a Non-Persistent field on a report?

@ neil, I have used scripting to persist non-persistent values into custom attributes for reporting

Since Reports don't use non-persistent field, you could do a script to move the NP field value to a new persistent field

Brian you type faster than me

@Sarasin_tom I was first!

typing battle!!

But if the calculation has to be done on load (for example due to meter readings) changing a persistent field will ask the user to save the changes when moving away from the document, even if he changed nothing himself. or am I wrong?

Haven't done that specifically but I think your right

Q1 2016

HS&E will drive the timeline

Excellent! Anyone else?

Scheduled to begin Q1 2016

Excellent! Another Q1 1016 upgrade!!!

@gammonfb Probably Q1 or Q2 2016.

Super!!!

as soon as we can get it setup correctly

If you need any info on the upgrade - please let us know.

Is Calibration Industrial Solution 7.6 available yet?

I've seen at least 40 different organizations have called in to ask support 7.6 questions...that's a great sign

Has anyone developed a look/feel differences doc to help us train?

We are. We have already attempted 7.6 MT install but are having problems. We would like to upgrade to 7.6 very soon - perhaps the Q4 2015 and install MT by the end of June.

Also remember there is the 76 preview site available - the link is on this chat

@alacy88 Lacy - where have you been hitting the problems?

@bgbaird - I know there is a lot of the new look/feel in the what's new guide...don't think there is specifically a differences doc...

@alacy88 Interloc just completed a successful 7.6 upgrade with MT.

@Dean_LaPorte Our biggest problem has been getting 7.6 connected to DB2.

@alacy88 Do you mean direct access to DB2? It is different than in non MT. Would you like to discuss this on a call?

@Dean_LaPorte that would be fantastic.