The Maximo specialist Swiss Army Knife

Have you ever felt at war during the roll-out of a complex customization or when you have to rush to debug and fix a complex problem? Sometimes being a Maximo specialist is like being a soldier. That's why you need the best tool at hand to do your job. That's why I have selected my personal set of portable apps that I have copied on my USB stick so I can plug in every computer in order to quickly become productive on every system. By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

• Notepad++: A powerful and free text editor that supports UNIX/DOS file formats, column mode editing, filesystem search, macros, source formatters and more...
• 7zip: Probably the best free file compression/archiver. WinRAR and WinZip are not really free and are less flexible or less powerful.
• DBVisualizer: An outstanding universal SQL client. Unfortunately it not completely free. Try the DBVisualizer Personal evaluation license and you will never leave it. A valid free alternative is SQuirreL.
• Postman REST Client: A Chrome plugin to play with HTTP calls against the Maximo Integration Framework. If you are a Firefox user then try HTTPRequester.
• SoapUI: A test tool useful to simulate HTTP and WebServices calls. A must have for developing MIF integrations.
• JD: A small and accurate Java decompiler is often useful to understand the inner behavior of Maximo classes.
• BareTail: A simple a tail program for Windows to look at Maximo logs in realtime.
• FileZilla: Open Source FTP client when you have to transfer files from/to UNIX servers.
• portaPuTTY: The portable version of the famous Telnet/SSH client.
• Beyond Compare: A great tool to compare files and directories. It isn't free but worth the price. A good free alternative is WinMerge.
• IrfanView: Simple and fast image viewer.
• TreeSizeFree: When you need to free some disk space this may prove useful.

Labels: beginner, utilities