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Status Functionality already exists
Workspace IBM MAS - Manage (Base)
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 1, 2025

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Preserve custom Java classes during/after automated update

We upgraded from MX 76 to MAS9 with customs Java classes. Everything is working fine but after each upgrade, no matter if automated or manual, classname attributes are overwritten by standard classes. For example a custom class for Workorder object.

After the upgrade, all classnames has to entered manually again. I tis hard to accept such solution in platfrom so robust, as it potentially results in a significant amount of manual work.

First and foremost, the core issue is not whether the upgrade is performed manually or automatically — that is irrelevant.

The real problem lies in how Maximo handles custom Java classes during or after the upgrade process.

By design, Maximo allows the use of custom Java classes and enables references to them within the appropriate objects. Therefore, we expect that — also by design — the upgrade process (regardless of whether it's automated or manual) should not require us to manually reconfigure each and every reference to these custom classes. Please consider that there could be dozens of them.


Plase, consider any improvement in this area.

Thanks.

Idea priority Urgent
Needed By Yesterday (Let's go already!)

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