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System Admin Config/Security

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Support network drive and non-HTTP URLs for large (>500MB) attachments

Attachments only support URLS for HTTP and HTTPS links only. Some files are so large(i.e. video files) that it is unworkable to upload/download by users. It takes so long to upload the connection times out. It takes equally long to download the fi...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Attribute formula comments/description

For attribute formulas: It would be helpful if we could add comments to complex formulas that we’ve written…to describe what the formulas do and how they work. In other words, could IBM please add a DESCRIPTION field to the ATTRFORMULA table.
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Not under consideration

Report list: Information popup

For a given application like WOTRACK —> Run Reports —> Reports window/list: It would be helpful if the report list could also have details about the report. So that the user can know what the report does…prior to running it. Like this: https...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Support in-memory tables

In-memory db tables can provide significant performance improvements for high-transaction tables (like meter readings). In-memory tables are available in all db platforms. The only catch is that the technology is implemented differently between pl...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Bind variable for "Is Interactive?"

It would be helpful if IBM could create a new bind variable for "Is Interactive?" (&INTERACTIVE&) Currently, in order for us to check if a session is interactive or not, we need to use an automation script. But if there were a bind variabl...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Future consideration

Custom bind variables

It would be helpful if we could define custom bind variables in Maximo. Examples: &FIRSTNAME& &ISINTERACTIVE& &ENVNAME& (i.e. the Maximo environment name; not the same thing as the existing :&HOSTNAME& variable). Us...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 3 Future consideration

Saved query parameters

In applications like WOTRACK: It would be helpful we could enter a parameter into a dialog window to filter the list view query. For example, specify a particular PERSONID to run a query on (other than the currently logged in user). We’re aware th...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Future consideration

Add a refresh button to Maximo applications

Scenario: A WO has been modified, so the user wants to refresh it in the browser to see the latest data. The refresh button in Chrome doesn't work as we might expect -- it doesn't refresh the record. Instead, the user needs to drag the WONUM from ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Not under consideration

SQL Expression Builder should return a Classification that can be used when you query

Currently the Classification button returns a classification in hierarchical form the same as you get with the Hierarchy Path format 1 \ 104 \ 10401. This cannot be used for a query, which is the purpose of the SQL Expression Builder, it renders t...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Is a defect

Add a button to manually trigger an escalation

Please add a button to the escalation application to manually trigger an execution of the escalation outside of it's existing schedule. This would allow administrators to efficiently run jobs that are on infrequent schedules, instead of altering t...
9 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration