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Automated JMS MessageStore validation following full cluster restarts

JMS messages not being written to the queue in Maximo Application Suite (production) Hard restart all pods went down as the node was unavailable due to the data center outage. History: Rolling restart all pods didn't work (UI operation and cron op...
5 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 0 Submitted

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...
6 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 2 Future consideration

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...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 1 Future consideration

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...
about 2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 1 Planned for future release

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...
2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 1 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 ...
7 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 ...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 3 Future consideration

Maximo Connector for SAP Applications needs to support JSON data

The Connector for SAP currently does not support JSON data which is preferred by many organizations for integrating systems. The Maximo integration framework allows users to select to publish in json format via the MAXIFACEOUT.PUBLISHJSON flag. Th...
about 1 month ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 0 Under review

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...
8 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 1 Future consideration

Let us return response code with Custom Script Handlers

Maximo supports api calls to a custom script handler as described https://ibm-maximo-dev.github.io/maximo-autoscript-documentation/rest/scripthandler While we can give custom response body, we cannot change the response code.Adding this will great...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 0 Future consideration