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System Admin Config/Security

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Allow administrators to enter free-form expressions in ad-hoc reports

Currently, there are limitations regarding ad-hoc report expressions: Expressions (SQL functions) are limited to the functions in the Expression Library (configurable). The fields that are available to expressions can only by number fields, not te...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

variable assignments in autoscripts should logged at the TRACE level

I believe it is good practice for automation scripts to log approximately 1 message at the INFO level per execution -- just enough to give a support person a clue that the script is running and that it did something. In addition to that, a script ...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 4 Future consideration

Honor crossover domain when creating WO from PM/JP/Route

Currently, Maximo doesn't utilize crossover domains when creating a WO from a PM (the PM includes a JP and a Route). It would be helpful if Maximo could be enhanced so that crossover domains are honored in that scenario.
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 3 Not under consideration

Message Tracking ignores index due to UPPER( ) function

The Message Tracking application is unnecessarily slow when querying for specific records in MAXINTMSGTRK. Details: In Message Tracking, if I search for an exact message ID, it takes 16 seconds to return a single record in a table that has 400,000...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Future consideration

New Organization disappears after you create it

In Organizations application if you create a new organization and save, the record disappears. This is because there is a new setting in Users application - Can Access Inactive Sites? You should never be able to create a new record for it to disap...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Not under consideration

For better UI UX, categorize the 1000+ system properties in the UI similar to how those properties are categorized in IBM Docs, then users will be able to easily query system properties by category in the UI.

Within the MAS>Manage UI (within System configuration>Platform Configuration>System Properties) the 1000+ system properties are not categorized in the UI but are categorized in IBM DOCS. Therefore users in the UI can filter the system pro...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Maximo - Everyplace - Expose update start center and profile option to allow to change mobile start centers for users

Can we enable/expose the update start center functionality on a mobile start center. I know you can get the users to go to the standard start center but we want to be able to just get them to update it on the mobile device they are using as moving...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Create communication to indicate failed or partial failed delivery of messages to addressees

It is easy to mistype an email address, particularly for external persons. When they are used on an outbound communication you have no idea that the message has not been delivered to its recipient, particularly as the communication log will show t...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

support Log4j 2 substituting parameters

Log4j 2 supports substituting and formatting parameters. Please add support for this to Maximo / MAS Manage so we can benefit from performance improvements and cleaner code. We would like to convert our Python autoscript code that looks like this....
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Tech Note: Retrieve list and map attributes via automation script

It would helpful if there were a Tech Note on the following topic. (There are existing tech notes that are similar, but they require things like a server restart, which is unnecessarily cumbersome. There are other "tricks" too, like utilizing Same...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration