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My votes: System Admin Config/Security

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Button to generate list of IDs from List View resultset

In the List View in any MAM application: Click a button that generates a list of IDs from the List View resultset (max 200 records, or whatever is practical): =WO1000, =WO1001, =WO1002, =WO1003 Possible options: Automatically copy the list to the ...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Asynchronous automation scripts: Provide a Python example

Regarding Asynchronous automation scripts documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/mam/7.6.1.2?topic=tasks-adding-scripts-that-run-as-asynchronous-jobs The example in the docs is an MBR script. It would be helpful if a Python example could be pr...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Start/Stop timer for tasks

In WOTRACK and Quick reporting: It would be helpful if there were a start/stop timer for tasks that workers could use to easily start and stop their task labor actuals (with the click of a button). It would be more efficient to use a timer than ma...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Batch-edit custom fields via expression

It would be helpful if we could batch-edit custom fields via an expression from within a Maximo application. The functionality could be like the Change Status action/window (supports bulk edits), but lets administrators choose the custom field and...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Ad-hoc report window: Indicate ROS name via mouseover

It would be helpful if the ROS name could be indicated in the ad-hoc report window -- so that Maximo admins could easily know the ROS name and find that ROS in the Object Structures application. Currently, only the ROS description is indicated in ...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Delete obsolete fields from LOCATIONS table

There are obsolete persistent fields in the LOCATIONS table like: GISPARAM1, GISPARAM2, GISPARAM3 The documentation says: "Unused attributes. Will be removed in a future release." https://bportaluri.com/wp-content/MaximoJavaDocs76/psdi/app/locatio...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Not under consideration

Add custom persistent field to CLASSSTRUCTURE without outage

It would be really helpful if we could add custom persistent fields to the CLASSSTRUCTURE table -- without the need for a db config outage. More information in this IBM Community post: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/iot/communities/commu...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Delete orphaned CLASSIFICATION rows

The MAXIMO.CLASSIFICATION table contains descriptions for CLASSSTRUCTURE rows. CLASSIFICATION rows can become orphaned when the corresponding CLASSSTRUCTURE rows have been deleted. It would be helpful if there were a tool/action that admins could ...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Is a defect

Filter where field is null OR equals value

When filtering in the list view: It would be helpful if ~null~ would work with the OR operator. For example, search for ~null~ OR a value. Currently, ~null~ can only be used by itself when filtering. While that is possible when using the SQL WHERE...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Not under consideration

Pare down the WORKORDER table (it's too big)

The WORKORDER table is too big, especially when Maximo add-ons are installed (~300 columns). Some of the old/extra columns should be retired. This would improve Maximo performance.
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration