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System Admin Config/Security

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Rules Engine

As a way to avoid excessive coding via automation scripts, it would be helpful if IBM could implement a rules engine: Provide "if this, then that" logic approach to any MBO without having to write custom code. Via a table with the following fields...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Planned for future release

Object launch point default event should be "Save"

Object launch points: The default event should be "Save", not "Initialize Value". Reason: "Save" is most commonly used. https://i.stack.imgur.com/m0nUC.png
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Planned for future release

'Get Value' action type

In an escalation/action: It would be handy if there were a way to get a value (via an autoscript, etc.) and return the value as a variable to the escalation's SQL condition. For example, an action & automation script could be used to get the v...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Planned for future release

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...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Planned for future release

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...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Planned for future release

Action Formulas

As an alternative to the Rules Engine idea, I wonder if IBM could enhance Maximo formulas by creating an "Action Formula" mechanism. Attribute formulas and object formulas already have most of the functionality that we’re looking for when it comes...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Planned for future release

Java method to open URL in same tab

Currently, we have a Java method that can open URLs in the browser: service.openURL(String url, boolean newWindow) Despite what the arguments in that method suggest, the method can't be used to open a URL in the same browser tab . It would be help...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Planned for future release

JSON Mapping: Store conditional values globally

JSON Mapping: It would be helpful if there were a way to store conditional values globally Example: We have JSON Mappings for 10 integrations. All 10 integrations have the same field, with the same conditional value list (exact same values). It wo...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Planned for future release

Pass variable from automation script to communication template

It would be helpful if there were a way to pass variables from an automation script to a communication template. Related: Pass variable from automation script to communication template
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Planned for future release

If pmwogen gets interrupted, child WOs fail to generate (but we have no way of knowing)

If pmwogen gets interrupted for some reason (due to an error in Maximo, a server or DB outage, etc.), then the PM that is currently running stops, and the child WOs stop being generated for that PM. As a result, there are child WOs missing from t...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Planned for future release

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