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Asset/Work Management

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Would like a way to move a set of locations and assets from one site to another

We are finding at times a location may change its maximo site designation. In these instances we would like a way to move/transfer the location and assets to another site. It, would be nice if the routine gave options to move the metadata(WOs etc)...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration

Work planning/scheduling should consider technician qualification

When trying to select the resource to do a job, this needs to be done at a qualifications level. For example, a Technician may have completed/obtained some of the training and qualifications of a high er level and that person should ultimately be ...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Planned for future release

Master PMs - should be able to standardize all the fields in a PM

We create a master template to be able to standardize and speed up the process. However, not all the fields in a PM are available on the Master PM, so each PM still requires a fair amount of editing before making active. For example, the 3 frequen...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Add as Spare Part to Asset Template

There's currently a checkbox in Item Master to add a part to the Asset's Spare Parts list when issued to a Work Order w/ an Asset. However, we are trying to manage our Assets' Spare Parts list via Asset Templates. It would make more sense that whe...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Combine Take Ownership and Stop Workflow Actions

Combine the 'Take Ownership' and 'Stop Workflow' actions into either a new action or in the Take Ownership action for Work Orders in the Work Order Tracking app.
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 2 Not under consideration

How to register Problem-Cause-Remedy on a WO having multiple Assets

Being the contractor's technician or the Asset Operation Manager, I need to be able to report different sets of Problem-Cause-Remedy on assets on my multi-asset WOs, so that I can ensure that later defect analysis will be based on valid data and d...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Ability to minimize or maximize a section as per user’s preference

As per standard Maximo functionality, option is available to minimize a section within an application by a user to hide the fields that they may not use. Currently users can minimize or maximize the sections and continue working within the applica...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration

RFE for Service Address to come over onto a duplicated SR

Service Requests and Work Orders work in a similar fashion, and work in concert in Maximo. When WOs are duplicated, service addresses are also copied across. When SRs are duplicated, service addresses are not copied across, and that is not expecte...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 4 Planned for future release

Keeping DB Backup for extended period of time (beyond 1 month) automatically.

This is an Ask from our client. It is useful for the below reason: 1. Investigate any data issue by restoring the older backup, if it is not traceable when it was introduced. 2. Restore lower environment with older backup (say 6 month old). 3. Bui...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Future consideration

Use Ticket or Work Order Calendar for Calculating Escalation Point Condition

In Organizations application the SLA Options setting Use Calendar for Calculating Escalation Point Condition doesn't appear to work and it is believed to have never been implemented. The idea behind this seems to be that when creating an escalatio...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration