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System Admin Config/Security

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Allow PERSONID to be different than USERID

When we manually create a user in MAS, or if the user is synchronized from LDAP, there is no way to set the PERSONID to a different value than the USERID. MAS User administration only has USERID and USERNAME (which translates to maximo.loginid). I...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 4 Planned for future release

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
2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Future consideration

Custom servernames in MAS

The mxserver names are the same for all the Manage servers by default. Unfortunately, it is not possible to set mxe.servername to the hostname of the pod. If mxe.servername is specified for the bundle, the servers within a bundle have the same nam...
about 2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Operational Dashboard - Administrator to manage/view/edit dashboards where they are not the owner

An administrator should be able to: Delete private dashboards where a user has left the company Change the ownership of a dashboard to a different user when a user has left the company Be able to see all operational dashboards records in the Maxim...
about 2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Planned for future release

Add a Workflow Assignment card to the Operational Dashboard

If you create a new Operational Dashboard there is no ability to add a Workflow Assignment card to it; there is no workflow assignment card in the card gallery. This is an issue as if the Maintenance Manager operational dashboard is deleted you ca...
about 2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Planned for future release

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...
4 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Future consideration

Bring back sub tabs on an applications list tab

If you have a application where you added a sub tab group with some tabs on an applications list tab, it is not showing any tabs in the application unless you remove the type="list" tag of the list tab. With this workaround all tabs are shown now....
4 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 7 Not under consideration

Replace the MAXDEMO database

It would be helpful if IBM could invest in a new MAXDEMO database where the data has actually passed through the MBO business logic and dates are not 30 years old. The existing MAXDEMO data isn't very useful because the data is messy. The demo dat...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 5 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...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Future consideration

Dark Mode for Maximo

Helpful to avoid eye strain. Improve productivity.
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Not under consideration