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System Admin Config/Security

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Object Structures - There should be a way of seeing which applications, security templates and security groups use the object structure.

When looking at Security Groups and receiving a message to say that you don't have access to an object, finding the security template to apply is difficult. For example, when you receive message BMXAA0024E - The action READ is not allowed on objec...
6 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Export report to XLSX as single table/sheet

Currently, when exporting a report to XLSX, the data gets split into multiple sheets. It would be helpful if there were an option to export to XLSX where the data is all in a single table/sheet. We understand why .pdf format was designed to retain...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Future consideration

Enable possibility to send e-mails from other domains (use case: external users

Use Case: In our Maximo environment we collaborate with external users (suppliers, customers). However, the current setup does not allow those external users to send outbound e-mails from Maximo (create communication, scheduled reports). Those ext...
8 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Future consideration

Allow Users to Hide / Unhide Saved Public Queries

Sometimes, there becomes a large list of Saved Public Queries which are shown to users. Users should be able to select and Hide / Unhide which Saved Public Queries they want to see and which they do not want to see
6 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Future consideration

Operational Dashboard – Work Queue card to have a Chart View option similar to Result Set portlet on a Start Center.

There should be the ability to display the Work Queue card in both a List View (as it does today) and a Chart View which is available on the Result Set portlet in the Start Center. Existing clients will be used to this flexibility, when launching ...
12 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Future consideration

Operational Dashboard - Work Queue card should be able to launch the application with the result set from the query.

Currently you can navigate to the Launch application one record at a time from the screen that opens when the Work Queue is opened from the Operational Dashboard. There should be the ability to navigate to the application and perform the same quer...
12 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Future consideration

Email listener MS GRAPH API support

Maximo currently relies on IMAP for email listeners. IMAP is still supported by Microsoft with OUATH for authentication, but it is a legacy protocol. Few organizations have stopped enabling IMAP for mailboxes. Hence, it would be great if support f...
2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Improve Config DB and UpdateDB Performance

We have a Maximo oracle database with approximately 80 million workorder records. CONFIGDB is slow when adding a custom field with a default value to large tables. For example adding a YORN field new_field to workorder table with default value 0, ...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 4 Future consideration

Use GitOps to manage MAS8 installation.

Use GitOps to manage MAS8 installation so that deployment is centrally manage and monitor from repostoy.
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Allow length control of multi-part text boxes

When configuring an application, the multi-part textbox if often the most useful tool to show a related value from a field. However, often one or both of these values are longer than the field. Please add 2 length attributes to the multi-part text...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration