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PINNED Enable inventory reservation automatic cron task for specific site
Advantage : Enable the cron for specific site which is necessary. Summary: In Maximo, we have more than 50 Active sites. When we try to enable inventory reservation automatic cron task for specific site, There is no Cron Parameters are available....

IBM MAS - Manage (Base)

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Move Asset Cost Rollup Report Functionality to Application

The asset cost rollup is an extremely complex report, which has no parameters and executes against the asset record set. The intention of the report is to calculate the labor, material, service and tools costs of an assets since the report was las...
over 11 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 17 Functionality already exists

To allow Maximo System Administrators the ability to modify the Owner for a Query

Queries are often created by one user and saved as Public. The person who saves the querie is identified as the "Owner' . Changes to the quiey can only be done by the Owner. These queries are then used by other users. If the Owner leaves his posti...
about 9 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 5

Suppress the rich text content of Rich Text Fields on export

Whenever we export records from a table that has rich text content, our external system may or may not be smart enough to process these rich text elements stored within the field. We need a way to configure this. For instance, to reproduce, export...
over 11 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 4 Not under consideration

Enable Change Status to Work Without Save Permission to support Express Licenses

Staying compliant with licenses is nearly impossible because Express (whose permissions are inherited into the Limited license) entitles users to change status in any application. In order to change status, it requires save permission. There's no ...
almost 7 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

Optimization of EAR rebuild & redeploy to reduce Maximo production Downtime

The objective is to find a way to externalize custom java code and specific properties (contained in the maximo/applications/maximo/properties folder) to have in the EAR file only the Maximo standard code and in the second part only properties and...
over 8 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

Allow MAXADMIN users to edit all saved queries

Allow users in the MAXADMIN security group to be able to change queries in Maximo/Tivoli regardless of the owner/creator of the query.
almost 9 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 6

Greater debugging capability for automation scripts

Please improve the automation script debugging capability.Currently these scripts can be hard to debug so providing additional information would be very helpful. A great start would be to:- provide the ability to dump the state of the script to a ...
over 7 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Planned for future release

Object Structures should allow a Source Object multiple times

Object Structures need to allow a given Object to appear as a Source Object multiple times. For example, we may want to include the full name, department, primary email address and primary phone number for the Lead, Owner and Supervisor of a Work ...
over 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 0 Future consideration

All indexes to be added to audit tables through UI

In Maximo 7.x, administrators can set an attribute to have an audit history be enabled the "Audit Enabled" checkbox. When enabled, Maximo will create an audit table to track changes made to that attribute. The table that is created is then part of...
over 6 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

Provide attachment anti-virus scanning functionality for non-IBM SaaS implementations

IBM have implemented functionality that allows Maximo to pass attachments to a 3rd party server for scanning for viruses. This functionality is controlled via the mxe.doclink.isVirusScanEnabled system property. This request is for the functionalit...
over 7 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Future consideration