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IBM Sustainability Software - Ideas Portal


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against the products and services belonging to IBM Sustainability Software. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Asset/Work Management

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Assets application to show that an asset is part of an active lease/rental contract

Assets are leased and rented, and you need a visual indicator to know that you should look up the contract details to determine whether you are allowed to perform maintenance (or not), perhaps review properties or terms and conditions. From the As...
7 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Future consideration

Conditional Expression Manager support for multiple-clause SQL

When creating a conditional expression, we expect OR evaluation to work for complex SQL clauses. We are finding that the SQL must be split into multiple conditions in order for the OR logic to function. SQL is a declarative language so evaluations...
7 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration

Ability to Choose Document Name and Description when Uploading Multiple Attachments

When adding multiple attachments at once, the document names and descriptions cannot be changed before they are uploaded. The document name and description just gets defaulted to the filename. It would be nice to be able to change the document nam...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 4 Not under consideration

PMs should have full ROUTE support implemented

PROBLEM:Certain Route based PMs have no History data even though the Work Orders are being generated. This is possibly happening from the Route not passing on any asset or location values to the history table per this IBM KB DOC: https://www.ibm.c...
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Duplicate Workorder - Better ability to control how Job Plan revisions are handled

Current functionality is inadequate. When you duplicate a WO the revision is carried over leading to old/inactive/no longer valid or complying with regulations to be carried over. See the IBM Case file for more information. I have a couple of thou...
8 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Caching of Sequences for Maximo tables to void performance issue.

Caching of Sequences for Maximo tables to void performance issue. Maximo / Manage installation should set the Sequence caching for all the Maximo/Manage table to avoid the performance issue. Currently we have to set the sequence caching for all th...
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Allow Adding TextArea to Work Center Inspections Forms for Comments Greater Than 255 Characters

The option to add a multiline text field or a textarea would be helpful for true comments functionality in work center inspection forms since the existing Text response field is limited to 255 characters. When creating new or revising existing ins...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Highlight error message in system generated email for Auto PM Work Order generation

Auto PM Work Order Generation process as per desired frequency is a standard Maximo functionality. Users receive an email message after the completion of PM Generation process that contains confirmatory message for work order generation and also e...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Inactivate user in manage

In Maximo 76 we can deactivate a user from user app -> update status. This functionality is no longer available in Manage 8.x. We have large user base, and group, team, or site leaders manage their team active/inactive user list. Suggest Manage...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration

Utilise AI technology to help identify duplicate work orders at the start of the process when creating a work order or service request

Companies like ours all have the same issues around duplication of work orders. The current process is that a user has to add lots of data to a work order before then saving at which time the duplication check kicks in. What would be better would ...
8 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Planned for future release