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Enable Security Authentication for SMTP in MAS to be in compliance with Microsoft Retiring SMTP Basic Auth 3/1/2026

In March of 2026 Microsoft will beginning turning off Basic Auth for SMTP relay connections used by applications. Currently there are no option in Maximo 7.6.x or in MAS to secure SMTP relay configurations in the application to ensure the emails s...
4 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 1 Planned for future release

ScriptService enhancement for throwing an error

If we just throw (raise) MXApplicationException in Autoscript, user sees error messages like this: BMXAA7837E - An error occured that prevented the APPBEAN.WOTRACK script for the null launch point from running. psdi.util.MXApplicationException: ps...
5 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 0 Under review

Maximo Migration Manager - Support S3 object storage and Azure Blob storage to retain migration packages in cost effective way with higher durability and higher availability

We are currently unable to migrate data between different MAS instances using Migration Manager because the property mxe.dm.dmroot is not configured. Once this property is set, we will be able to migrate changes across the various MAS instances (D...
5 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 0 Under review

Support Valid Public SSL Certificates for Certificate Based API Authentication

In MAS 9.1, support for using certificate-based authentication (mtls) was officially supported in Manage (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/masv-and-l/maximo-manage/cd?topic=manage-whats-new-in-maximo-91). Certificate based authentication enables custom...
7 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 0 Under review

Support Additional Network on MAS Manage to connect to external resources (for example Database)

To achieve network segregation and enhance security, we should connect to external resources (for example, the MAS Manage database) through an additional network dedicated to that traffic, separate from the default OpenShift cluster network. OpenS...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 2 Future consideration

Include 2nd and 3rd week as an option for monthly Cron Task scheduling

When scheduling monthly cron jobs, we can currently choose options like the first or last Thursday of the month. We would like to extend this capability to also select the second and third occurrences of a weekday (e.g., the 2nd Thursday or 3rd Th...
18 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 0 Under review

Extend Basic Authentication and maxauth header with API Keys to Web Services and REST APIs

Currently in Manage 9.1 there is support for using Basic Authentication and maxauth header with API Keys, however this option is limited to HTTP post (meaweb/es), as described in the document below: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7243716 F...
3 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 0 Future consideration

Add flag to enforce Object Structure JSON Schema validation for REST API Calls

Currently, Maximo will ignore invalid attributes in inbound messages sent via a REST API call. In the example below: POST /api/os/mxapiasset?lean=1{"assetnum": "ASSET1","siteid": "BEDFORD","description12345": "my first asset"} Description12345 is ...
3 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 3 Future consideration

Enable bulk Data Import for Failure Codes (a.k.a. Failure Classes, PCR Codes)

Problem Currently, all MAS customers cannot bulk import data (via flat files through application import or enterprise services) to the Failure Codes application. Customers are forced to create and enter failure code hierarchies one by one by hand ...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 0 Future consideration

Equalize the XML response with the JSON output in the Maximo OSCL API

While JSON is the much more lightweight output format, xml is still very relevant and should show the same data like the JSON. So far, very helpful attributes like descriptions of domain values (eg. status_description, devicelass_description) is n...
6 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 1 Future consideration