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System Admin Config/Security

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Work Queues should be able to reference attributes from child objects in the object structure

Start Center Results Sets can reference attributes through a relationship. Work Queues cannot be a replacement for a Result Set until the same functionality is provided. Example, a work order work queue cannot reference the description of the loca...
16 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Submitted

Add an option to modify white space between table columns to prevent horizontal scrolling

With the new skin of MAS Manage the whitespace between columns is greater than the columns in Maximo 7.6.1.3. With the new skin in MAS Managere many customers complain about the horizontal space needed for tables. If there was an option to change ...
6 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Submitted

Enable customers to control the 2 digit year used in SimpleDateFormat

There are many date fields in Maximo, each of which go through a process to convert the string value into a date value using Java's SimpleDateFormat. This introduces sometimes undesirable behavior by the platform because the year field is a 2-digi...
about 1 month ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Overhaul QUERY management in Maximo Manage

Hello, This idea will be useful to both Manage users and administrators alike and tries to address several current pain points around the QUERY functionality in Maximo Manage. There is a Community Post about a newly added behavior with MAS Manage ...
3 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Future consideration

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 ...
4 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 4 Future consideration

Add server name for the JVMs in MMI application

When servers are bundled in separate bundles they all have the same server name e.g. MXServer. Problems are: 1. In Manage Monitoring Information => we cannot see the difference between the server bundle JVMs, because they are all referenced as ...
about 2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Under review

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Future consideration

Git integration for automation scripts

our Java customization is stored and code versioned in git repositories. pushing changes and maintain traceability is standard. when it comes to automation scripts ( IBM new preferred modifications ) we're loosing those capabilities: modify things...
7 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Option to override the sendEmail function in the MXServer class with an automation script so we can implement secure mail using for instance Microsoft Graph.

Companies are increasingly implementing more stringent security policies and normal smtp mail is getting more and more restricted or even banned. To be able to implement customer specific mechanisms for sending email (or messages to be more genera...
about 1 month ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Under review

Email listener MS GRAPH API support

Maximo currently relies on IMAP for email listeners. IMAP is still supported by Microsoft with OUATH for authentication, but it is a legacy protocol. Few organizations have stopped enabling IMAP for mailboxes. Hence, it would be great if support f...
17 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Submitted