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IBM MAS - Common Services

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Please add the ability (and corresponding REST API) to inactivate/re-activate a MAS user login without deleting it

There are a high number of external service providers who will perform work in Maximo (Mobile) sporadically. Since there may be long gaps between work assignments for some technicians, we would like to be able to inactivate or re-activate their MA...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Common Services 1 Delivered

Single Sign On without MAS login page

When users are already connected to Legacy System via SAML or other authentication and click MAS weblink, the user should be logged in and processed without going through the Login Page. When the user login, the user can enter the specific applica...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Common Services 4 Delivered

MAS Core user administration should provide functionlity to manage passwords

Currently the way it works this days is that you have to provide a password with a min of 15 chars in length. This should be improved and allow MAS Admins to configure: - password length - allowed characters - password dictionary check - password...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Common Services 1 Delivered

Log user directly into Manage when they timeout, similar to the initial login.

When a user has signed in directly to Manage (https://hostname/maximo)(and then times out) they get pushed over to the MAS page after re-authenticating - and have to select the Manage application within "Your Applications" to get back into Manage....
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Common Services 1 Delivered

MAS backup and restore

Clients need to understand how to backup and restore their MAS installations to ensure data integrity in case of an emergency. Recommended processes and tools need to be thoroughly documented and tested in real world scenarios and be regularly upd...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Common Services 2 Delivered

Add Support for IDP Initiated SAML Without Requiring User to Input ID in MAS

Currently with MAS you can setup IDP initiated SAML but the first time that you launch the user is prompted for their username in MAS. Once they enter their username they are logged into MAS without the need for a password. My understanding is tha...
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Common Services 0 Delivered

Support MS browser on MAS

Without MS browser support, Japanese customers can not use MAS applications.Because most Japanese companies use MS browser as company's default browser, and it is not allowed to install Chrome or Firefox on the user's PC as a company policy. Also...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Common Services 4 Delivered

Modify the installer to prompt if environment will be production or non-production

MAS 8.9 includes a new capability where the system administrator can specify if the environment is for production / non-production. This is an important capability because it affects the app points usage - non-production environments will require ...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Common Services 2 Delivered

Sharing licensees between MAS environments that are on separate networks

We have MAS 8.7 with Manage 8.3 deployed to two Azure Tenants currently Dev and Test and will be deploying to Production shortly. Each Tenant is it's own network and there is no communication between networks which poses a problem when issuing App...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Common Services 1 Delivered

SLS to return App Points when the session ends - Affects Scania

Found this during when Scania (biggest MAS customer) went live with MAS+MS. After doing a deep-dive into the SLS with engineering we noticed that App Points didn´t get released back to the pool when the session timeout was exceeded (30 min for Sca...
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Common Services 1 Delivered