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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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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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Use SQL Server Sequences

Maximo 7.6+ should use SQL Server sequences like Maximo does for Oracle and DB2. Maximo 7.6+ only supports SQL Server 2012 and above, and starting in SQL Server 2012, SQL Server supports sequences (see: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/s...
almost 7 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Delivered

Request for BIRT 4.8 support in Maximo

Currently Birt version 4.3.1 is the only supported version by Maximo and it uses Java 1.7. This is an ISSO security issue. Java 1.7 is out of date, so using the Report Designer itself in Version 4.3.1 is also a security issue. As of this article h...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 5 Delivered

Enable getLookupName for Attribute Automation Script

Automation scripts in Maximo have a lot of functionality, especially in relation to attributes. We can add our own custom logic to most of the common methods/functions (validate, action, getList(), etc.), and make changes to this custom logic (inc...
about 7 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Delivered

Migration Manager Packages Automation

Packages automation with Migration Manager
about 9 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 4 Delivered

Developer workspace/environment

Background:With Maximo 7.6.1.x, developers were able to create a local VM on their laptops. This allowed them to work independantly & remotely. In MAS (specifically Manage), the direction is more of working either on a shared instance or each ...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Documentation & Help 3 Delivered

Support Automation Scripts as System Actions in REST API

The REST API has the concept of system actions (actions stored in the restsysaction table) that can enable useful functionality that can be used on any object structure. For example, duplicating a record. We find some common use cases (such as sen...
about 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 1 Delivered

Allow Inventory Physical Counts for Rotating Items

Allow the OOB Physical Count functionality to apply to rotating items in Inventory. Do NOT allow the Reconciliation function for rotating items, but provide a mechanism to check the Reconciled flag when the inventory counts have been verified/corr...
over 5 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Delivered

Maximo does not notify second user if the same work order is opened and edited by first user

Maximo allows to open the same work order record by two different users and edit at the same time without notifying the second user at the beginning of the edit that the work order being edited is being modified by another user. This allows both u...
almost 10 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 3 Delivered

Create E-Mail Listener integration ability using OAuth that does not require a refresh token

Since Microsoft has declared the legacy Exchange integration capability out of support everyone was forced to move to OAuth technology. Within Maximo IBM has provided a new ability to support this OAuth connection protocol within the E-Mail Listen...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Delivered

Date datatype for ASSETATTRIBUTE, search by date

We would like to add a Date type as data type attributes to a classification. Today we only have Numeric, ALN or Table types. Additionally, it would be very helpful to have the possibility to search a date type attribute between two dates values.
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 3 Delivered