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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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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

Queue SMTP Emails when SMTP Server is Unavailable

There are various scenarios in Maximo where email is sent explicitly from the various MXServer.sendEmail() methods. For example, the PM WOGEN cron task. If the email fails to send to the SMTP server (such as the SMTP server is down) it's gone fore...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Planned for future release

include server, username, date/time in error dialog/pop-up

When a user gets an error that they can work around but they want to report to administrators, they often include a screenshot of the error in the email or support ticket. The problem is that a lot of questions the administrator will ask during tr...
almost 5 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Planned for future release

Guest Accounts Provisioning in MAS - For external "users" Service Request Creation

Several of our clients are on MAS which does not currently support guest accounts. The reasoning behind it is for them to be able to support the ability to log a Service Request in Maximo for our clients' technicians to inspect or execute work. Th...
7 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Planned for future release

Add Ability to Invoke Automation Script During Admin Mode Processing

Maximo has always had limited Admin Mode support when dealing with clusters. IBM Support even recommends to shut down all JVMs but one. In 7.6.1.1 this was enhanced a step further where Maximo can even stop and start the other JVMs inside of WebSp...
almost 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Planned for future release

Maximo Support For Oracle Partitioning

We have a global Oracle instance containing over 70 plants hosting our Maximo data. At times we are having performance issues and our DBAs have recommended that we partition our database to get better performance. Most reporting is still done on a...
almost 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Planned for future release

Alert on existing PMs when status changes on workorder to WAPPR

An alert is supposed to appear when you change the workorder status for which it exists a PM on the same location or asset that will be triggered in the coming days. The problem is that his alert doesn't work when we create the workorder or when w...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 3 Planned for future release

Flag to Identify that a Purchase Requisition (PR) was Generated by Reorder

System: 7.6.1 Description: Currently Maximo is configured to be able to run the reorder automatically via cron task or to run the reorder manually. When those are generated, the only thing that identifies that the PR was generated by reorder is vi...
over 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 2 Planned for future release

Work order description to come from the job plan when it's generated from a PM

Whenever a work order is generated from a PM there are two scenarios from where the resulting work order description will come from. 1. From the PM, if the PM has a description 2. From the Job Plan, if the PM has no description. The problem is tha...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 3 Planned for future release

Create possibility to skip messages from Kafka topic

There is no option to clear the integration messages in the Kafka topic like traditional JMS queues. Kafka's proposal is to keep the message alive until the expiration date. So today the only option to clear the message from the topic is to set...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 2 Planned for future release