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System Admin Config/Security

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Change "Default" Input Mode to "Default Value Source" or "User Provided Default"

To English speakers, "Default" means "as normal" or "without modification". In the context of a field's Input Mode in Application Designer, English speakers understand it to mean the input mode should be "normal" or "inherited the input mode from ...
16 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Under review

For Oracle databases, change use_stored_outlines to SQL plan management.

The stored outlines functionality has been deprecated by Oracle, and the recommendation is to move to SQL plan management: https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/19/sqlrf/CREATE-OUTLINE.html
13 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Planned for future release

User Impersonation

There are two scenarios we currently face where user impersonation could help greatly. Scenario 1: Maximo Administrator is trying to configure security for a new user. After the maxadmin finishes setting up the security, provide a "View Maximo as ...
about 1 month ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Data replication solution for remote/offshore customers

The industry in general needs the IBM team to look at a rule-based replication solution for customers with remote/offshore installations. Currently, commercially available solutions are untested for MAS8. Without a proven replication solution, cus...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Future consideration

Custom servernames in MAS

The mxserver names are the same for all the Manage servers by default. Unfortunately, it is not possible to set mxe.servername to the hostname of the pod. If mxe.servername is specified for the bundle, the servers within a bundle have the same nam...
24 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

To be able to add attachment function in Tablecol

I am able to add the Attachment functionality in the Tablecol but it works only when the System property of webclient.enabledoclinkonload is set to false when the property was changed to true, the attachment icon is gone. Please consider support...
4 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Object Structures - There should be a way of seeing which applications, security templates and security groups use the object structure.

When looking at Security Groups and receiving a message to say that you don't have access to an object, finding the security template to apply is difficult. For example, when you receive message BMXAA0024E - The action READ is not allowed on objec...
about 2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

EAM GAP - Need Logout API in Manage/MAS (Similar to 7.6)

Client had a 3rd party inhouse application developed, where authentication happens via Maximo ID-password. so the whole session management is happening in Maximo 7.6. In that custom app, logout icon is there. When client clicks the logout button, ...
16 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Planned for future release

Allow PERSONID to be different than USERID

When we manually create a user in MAS, or if the user is synchronized from LDAP, there is no way to set the PERSONID to a different value than the USERID. MAS User administration only has USERID and USERNAME (which translates to maximo.loginid). I...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 4 Planned for future release

Enable possibility to send e-mails from other domains (use case: external users

Use Case: In our Maximo environment we collaborate with external users (suppliers, customers). However, the current setup does not allow those external users to send outbound e-mails from Maximo (create communication, scheduled reports). Those ext...
3 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Future consideration