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System Admin Config/Security

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Edit imported view object's attribute datatype after saving -- but before db config

Scenario: Create an imported view object in db config. Save the object. We need to change a field type, but can't because the fields are read-only. It seems like it should be possible to edit saved object attribute datatypes -- before db config is...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Future consideration

autoscript performance enhancement: provide method to check current logging level

The service object now sports log_debug() and log_info() methods. Maximo autoscripters are thankful for the option to choose the level we log messages at. The next step is to allow us to optimize performance by allowing us to choose when we try to...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

variable assignments in autoscripts should logged at the TRACE level

I believe it is good practice for automation scripts to log approximately 1 message at the INFO level per execution -- just enough to give a support person a clue that the script is running and that it did something. In addition to that, a script ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 4 Future consideration

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...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Future consideration

Create communication to indicate failed or partial failed delivery of messages to addressees

It is easy to mistype an email address, particularly for external persons. When they are used on an outbound communication you have no idea that the message has not been delivered to its recipient, particularly as the communication log will show t...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

support Log4j 2 substituting parameters

Log4j 2 supports substituting and formatting parameters. Please add support for this to Maximo / MAS Manage so we can benefit from performance improvements and cleaner code. We would like to convert our Python autoscript code that looks like this....
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

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...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Add a "Last Successful Sync Date" field to cron task instances

It would be helpful to know when the last successful sync date was for a given cron task instance. I.e., the last time records were actually synced to Maximo. For example, with the OOB ArcGISDataSync cron task, we don't have a good way to know whe...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Record cron task errors in a db table

It would be helpful if cron task errors could be recorded in a database table somewhere in Maximo. Currently, the Runtime Error field in the cron task instance history does not get populated. That's due to a design flaw with the cron task framewor...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

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...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Future consideration

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