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IBM MAS - Scheduler

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Consider Resource / Crew Assignment when control the Resource load and Availability in Graphical Scheduling

How it works today During the Planning/Scheduling phase, Graphical Scheduling is used to decide whether work orders can be executed based on resource and crew availability. The Graphical Scheduling calculates availability by dealing with Calendar/...
11 days ago in IBM MAS - Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Add the Ability to Zoom in to a Day and Zoom out to 2 weeks in Graphical Work Week

In Graphical Work Week, assignments that are 30 minutes long are small slivers in the timeline view. It would be helpful to be able to zoom in to a single day to better work with those assignments. Also, it would be helpful to be able to zoom out ...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Scheduler 5 Future consideration

Show appointment windows in Graphical Appointment Book based on real Labor and Crew Availability

Today we show appointment windows that are available in Graphical Appointment Book based on predefined static data defined in the Appointment Book Manager application. We need these windows to be based on true availability of the Labor records. Th...
20 days ago in IBM MAS - Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Add possibility to filter Work Orders that are loaded to Graphical Assignment application

We need to add possibility to filter Work Orders that are loaded to Graphical Assignment application. Similar functionality as works now for tasks ( flag for "Include in Schedule") , could fully cover this requirement. We would like to add new fla...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Scheduler 2 Future consideration

Allowing tool assets as a schedulable resource during work scheduling/assignment

Why is it useful? In the utility industries especially in the power sector, Mobile plants(Fleet Assets) are used on a regular basis to perform a job. Now, these mobile plants do act as a schedulable resource as like a human resource so that they c...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Graphical View selecting records

When users filter records in the "Graphical View" and get results in rows, if they click on a "Select or unselect all rows" checkmark it selects absolutely all rows in the scheduler and not the rows of filtered ones. Users should have the option t...
9 months ago in IBM MAS - Scheduler 1 Future consideration

Scheduler – Graphical Work Week - Remove the start date filled automatically.

The Scheduler has Work order's in his scope of work that does not have planning dates because it is not a priority. The scheduler wishes to identify them to populate his planning. The scheduler wishes that the schedule dates are not automatically ...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Scheduler 6 Future consideration

Handling of on-call or stand-by resources in Graphical Resource View

When modifying the availability of resources, it is today only possible to add reason codes of type Work and Non-Work which then increase or decrease the available work hours. Many organizations have resources as on-call or stand-by for certain ti...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Enhance performance on Work Order Tracking application

When working in the WO Tracking application and listing all Work Orders under the menu option : create a new record or open an existing one / on predecessors field --> Select Predecessors / Select More Work Orders, no option to filter the resul...
2 months ago in IBM MAS - Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Allow duration to be modified in Graphical Work Week using inline editing

It is common for a supervisor to adjust duration when assigning work. Right now the only options are to drag the bar which only drags in 1 hour increments or update the End Date. It would be a huge usability improvement to allow duration to be upd...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Scheduler 1 Future consideration