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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against the products and services belonging to IBM Sustainability Software. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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MAS SaaS Essential and Standard Editions to support custom languages

Currently custom languages in MAS customer managed deployment is supported and relatively easy to configure as is shown here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/masv-and-l/cd?topic=support-adding-unsupported-languages . MAS is available in multiple langu...
11 days ago in IBM MAS - Dedicated & SaaS / MAS SaaS 3 Future consideration

Eliminate the empty box and excess space that take up real estate on empty tables.

The box and excess space creates additional scrolling for users who need to view an entire work screen and doesn't really offer any value to users. It is also distracting.
3 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 2 Under review

Parent Type Deletion Option Not Available in Lab Resource and Channel Properties

The deletion option for a Parent Type is not available in Lab Resource and Channel Properties. We observed that, after creating a Parent Type, there is no option in the UI to remove or delete it. This limitation makes it difficult to manage unused...
11 days ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Administration 0 Submitted

MVI Docs bug - Sharing Resources

Regarding this page in the Online docs https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/masv-and-l/maximo-vi/cd?topic=managing-sharing-resources Projects are also a "shareable" item in MVI and is missing from the description. Please add "projects" to the list of items...
about 11 hours ago in IBM MAS - Visual Inspection / MVI 0 Submitted

Restrict editing of labor rates during work order time reporting

When technicians report actual labor against a work order, the Rate field can be edited in views such as Work Order Actuals, Labor Reporting and Quick Reporting. This makes it possible for a rate to be changed unintentionally or incorrectly. Large...
about 18 hours ago in IBM MAS - Dedicated & SaaS / MAS Managed Service 0 Submitted

Make automatically generated work order numbers read-only in all views

When a work order is created, its work order number is generated automatically and serves as an important reference for the record. However, the number is read-only only on the main Work Order tab. In other views, such as WO SP, Asset, Location an...
about 18 hours ago in IBM MAS - Dedicated & SaaS / MAS Managed Service 0 Submitted

Need to be able to manage TAGs: delete, add, rename, etc

Even after deleting a Tag for all WI, they are still proposed, which can be acceptable. But in some case the tag was improperly typed and need to be removed. In DOORS Next there is a manage tag capability. We need the same functionality.
1 day ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Work Items 0 Submitted

IBM Bob skills and an IBM-supported MCP server for Maximo Application Suite development, agents and upgrades

What we ask: IBM-supported skills and an MCP server for Maximo Application Suite, delivered through IBM Bob (IBM's AI development partner, the successor to watsonx Code Assistant):- Bob skills for Maximo development: automation scripts, MAS config...
1 day ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 0 Submitted

Automatically synchronise downtime duration and start and end dates

When users create or edit downtime history for an asset or work order, the downtime duration and the start and end date and time are interdependent. Currently, changing one value does not consistently update the related values. This can result in ...
1 day ago in IBM MAS - Dedicated & SaaS / MAS Managed Service 0 Submitted

Improve PM forecasting efficiency through incremental updates

Provide an incremental update capability for PM forecasting that maintains an accurate, rolling forecast without unnecessarily regenerating unchanged forecast data. When forecast processing runs, the system should: Retain existing forecast dates ...
1 day ago in IBM MAS - Dedicated & SaaS / MAS Managed Service 0 Submitted