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IBM Sustainability Software - Ideas Portal


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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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IBM MAS - Manage (Base)

Introduce a flexible Tagging Framework in Maximo that enables users to apply reusable free-text tags to records such as Work Orders and Service Requests for categorisation, searching, filtering, and reporting, reducing the need for ongoing custom field creation.

Many modern enterprise applications, such as Azure DevOps, Jira, SharePoint and ServiceNow, allow users to apply free-text tags to records. Tags provide a lightweight categorisation mechanism that can evolve with business needs without requiring d...
about 11 hours ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management Submitted

Option to disable or hide "Internal Field Help" when clicking field labels

Currently, clicking on a field label opens the "Internal Field Help" window. Users often accidentally click these labels, which causes unwanted pop-ups and disrupts their workflow. We would like the ability to make field labels non-clickable, or a...
about 13 hours ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management Submitted

Delete Idea please

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1 day ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Workflow Submitted

Allow users to filter items for return in the Receiving application's "Select Items for Return" dialog

It's very difficult for users to find items to return when there are several items on a PO, see attached screen shot.
2 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management Under review

Add drag and drop attachments to main page

Instead of having to click view attachments, add new attachments, add new file just have a drag a drop box under the view attachments. I use the drag and drop alot on WOs, PRs and other applications. this would just save some clicks. See attached ...
4 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) Needs more information

Dry-run mode for escalations

Problem: There is no supported way to see which records an escalation condition will match before activating it. Practitioners work around this by rebuilding the condition as a query or ad-hoc report first, which is duplicated effort and easy to s...
5 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security Under review

Order the list of attachments by description

Sometimes we have a lot of similar attachments, for examples 5 pictures plus 5 documentations and so on. if they have been uploaded in different occasions the id is not a good order criteria. it would be helpful to order by description so that the...
5 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management Under review

Request to provide an ability to manage environmental variables via ManageWorkspace CR

Currently latest versions of Maximo Manage 9.1 or 9.2 has ability to configure ephemeral volume mounts via Maximo Manage WorkSpace CR, which is a good option to redirect file operations(for example Maximo Logs or Liberty logs folder/process) to an...
9 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security Under review

Replace hard-coded colors to CSS variable in maximo.css

There are existing CSS variables for theme color in both MAS Core and Maximo Manage but there are many places that colors are hard-coded instead of utilizing CSS variable. My idea is to replace all hard-coded color to CSS variable so we can custom...
9 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security Under review

Ability to create data source for Operational Dashboard Table Card in MaximoUI

Currently, the Table Card in the Operational Dashboard requires its data source to be configured in the OPDASHBOARD common XML (DataSource) through the application configuration. This approach has the following drawbacks: The datasource configurat...
10 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security Needs more information