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System Admin Config/Security

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Disable: Asset gets auto-populated if location has single asset

It would be helpful if there were a system setting that could be used to disable the following functionality: In a WO, the asset gets auto-populated if the location only has a single asset A lot of organizations don't want that functionality. I th...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Maximo views: Increase SQL FROM clause character limit

When creating a view object in Maximo db config: The view's FROM clause can only have 1000 characters. BMXAA4049E 1000 characters might seem like a lot, but in fact, many queries have more than 1000 characters in the FROM clause, especially if the...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Create native db views via Maximo db config

For those of us who don't have CREATE VIEW privileges in the database: It would be helpful if there could be a way to create native db views via Maximo. The views would later be imported into Maximo as imported view objects. Related posts: Views D...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 3 Functionality already exists

Add width control to app designer table column

When configuring a table in application designer, often the width of a column needs to be extended to allow full visibility of the data. There is no option on the table column properties for this, however exporting the XML and adding a width="xx" ...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

E-mail Listeners - Separate Email Notifications Content vs Connection Issues

When an e-mail listener is setup all errors that occur go to the defined administrator e-mail address. This idea is to separate out how connection errors are handled vs errors created due to the content of an email. If an email's content causes an...
7 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Create some type of notification that informs the user that a data export limit has been set via the system property [webclient.maxdownloadrows] , so they are aware that there data may get truncated.

Setting the system property property [webclient.maxdownloadrows] helps prevent out of memory errors. However when set, the users are not aware of the limit. This presents a danger for analyzing data or trusting the dataset that is exported . For e...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

WOTRACK Advanced Search: Filter by total actuals cost (including task cost)

WOTRACK Advanced Search: It would be helpful if users had a way to filter WOs by total actuals cost (including task cost). Examples: Find WOs where the total cost (incl. tasks) is negative Find WOs where the total cost (incl. tasks) is zero Find W...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Set default ROS for application (ad-hoc reports)

Could IBM make it so we can set the default Report Object Structure (aka "category") for an application? Example: WOTRACK: Currently, the default ROS is the second one in the list. I want to make the first ROS be the default instead (it's a cus...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Make the relationship between Conditional UI and security optional

If we want to use the Conditional UI, we are required to use security (a custom sig option) whether our configuration is related to security or not. This is often a waste of effort. It would be helpful if the relationship between the Conditional U...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 4 Not under consideration

Custom bind variables

It would be helpful if we could define custom bind variables in Maximo. Examples: &FIRSTNAME& &ISINTERACTIVE& &ENVNAME& (i.e. the Maximo environment name; not the same thing as the existing :&HOSTNAME& variable). Us...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 3 Future consideration