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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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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

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

Allow multiple Start Centers per Security Group

When setting up a security group, only one Start Center is allowed per group. However, sometimes an extra Start Center is needed for a set of users, which then requires an extra security group to be created just for the purpose of giving an additi...
almost 8 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 5 Not under consideration

Include support for Internet Explorer 10 and 11 for Maximo BIRT reporting

Include support for Internet Explorer 10 and 11 for Maximo BIRT reporting.Currently the Maximo platform compatibility does not indicate that Maximo BIRT is compatible with IE 10 and 11. This creates uncertainty for clients who wish to upgrade thei...
over 10 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 5 Not under consideration

Allow Queries to be site-specific

With multi-site systems, a lot of public queries are really only designed to be used for a particular site. Adding the ability for the user to specify a single site would be useful.
over 7 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 7 Not under consideration

Ability to configure the file extension used when exporting textual data

Reconfigure the application export functionality so that the user can select the file extension that is available when the user exports data. Ideally this should be configuration so that it can be managed via a domain and system administrators cou...
over 7 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 1 Not under consideration

Start Center Color Alert Expressions need more flexibility

We have many requests for color alerts in the Start Center Portlets across our enterprise Maximo Asset Management. We are currently in Maximo 7.6.1.2. In the Start Center Configuration Tool, Color Alert tab, users would like to be able to use a ca...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Hierarchical Query support for DB2

Many hierarchies are created in Maximo. Asset, locations, classifications, item assembly structure, etc. It is useful and efficient to be able to generate hierarchical queries in the database.
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration