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System Admin Config/Security

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Hyperlinks configured in Maximo Communication Templates to take the user directly to the record.

Hyperlinks can be configured in Maximo Communication Templates to take the user directly to the record. The Hyperlink looks like below: http://:HOSTNAME/maximo/ui/maximo.jsp?event=loadapp&value=:APP&uniqueid=:OWNERID We tried this in o...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 6 Functionality already exists

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....
7 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 8 Not under 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

Ability to send a notification before an APIKEY expires

In a recent demonstration of Manage to Siemens Energy the question was asked if an APIKEY in Maximo can be set to expire in, say, 90 days. The answer is yes. The follow up question was how do you notify a sys admin that a key is about to expire. T...
2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Functionality already exists

Open Source database support for MAS Manage

Since years, the French Government pushes its IT departments to go for Open Source solutions, it now begins to be a mandatory requirements and it starts by databases. https://www.guideinformatique.com/actualites-informatiques/le-gouvernement-franc...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 4 Not under consideration

We are not seeing any option to make the bulk of users Inactive if they are not logged into Maximo for a longer period of time.

Hi Team, We are trying to check on option on how we can Inactivate users who are not logged into the Maximo system for a certain period of time. Please share your thoughts/Inputs if there is any such option. Thanks & regards,Sandeep
2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Planned for future release

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 ...
11 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...
11 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Future consideration

Iframe (Embedded website/dashboard) as Additional Application Designer component

As a system administrator I want to embed an iframe in a tab-section or dialog-section Such that I can show related systems without leaving my Maximo instance From a technology perspective I'm proposing an iframe UI component in the application de...
2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Planned for future release

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...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration