When you manually type in a value for the GL Account in Maximo, if you use alpha

numeric characters, those don t automatically change to uppercase for you. A user
could also mix and match upper and lower case characters as well as numbers. T
his can sometimes be troublesome when you have to integrate the data with People
Soft or some other financial software because those values are usually case sens
itive.
Here is how to force GL Account to uppercase in Maximo 7.5 using Automation Scri
pts.
First, create a new Automation script with attribute launch point . This example,
set the object to WORKORDER and the attribute equal to GLACCOUNT. Add an INOUT
variable for glaccount . Then simply add this jython code:
glaccount=glaccount.upper()
Save and run