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Asset/Work Management

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Relocate or Optimize Popup Messages Blocking User Actions

We are facing an issue where certain popup messages, such as "Record saved" or similar notifications, appear on the screen in green. The problem is that the placement of these messages overlaps with critical action buttons. This prevents users fro...
2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Planned for future release

Friendlier Visual Interface

MAS 8 - the color scheme - or lack of - is difficult to see. Since going to MAS8, a number of individuals in our company have mentioned this, so I'm not certain why this has not been suggested before. There's very little contrast on the screen - a...
10 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Under review

Default Long Description Fonts to Sans-Serif to Match All Other Default Fonts

All the text boxes in Maximo are using a sans-serif font by default but the long description boxes on new records defaults to serif. This is inconsistent with the rest of Maximo and a change between 7.6.1 and 8.11. One font should be used across t...
4 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 2 Not under consideration

To be able to make a code in a failure hierarchy Inactive.

There is no ability to modify the failure hierarchy after it has been used, you will receive the error BMXAA1159E - Failure list is referenced by a failure report and may not be deleted. There should be an option on a failure code that is part of ...
11 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Condition monitoring, prevent work orders to be created from earlier meter reading when existing work order is closed.

Maximo creates only one WO for one measurement. However if you enter a new measurement that also exceeds action limit, a new WO will be created. There is a system property that can partially prevent this: mxe.app.measurepoint.considerWOsGeneratedB...
11 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Under review

Click on Inspection Form Record to be taken to Revision Page

Nearly every application in Maximo Manage enables the user to click on a record number and be taken to a detail page. The MAS 9 Inspection Form app performs very differently. Numerous people believe the app to be initially broken as they click and...
12 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Under review

Support printing of attachments that require user authentication

Viewing and printing of Attachments are a very important feature for Corning. Viewing and printing of attachments are used in many of the MAS Manage applications - Assets, Work Order Tracking, Job Plans etc. Several end users make use of the print...
2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Planned for future release

Add Table Domains to Inspection Forms and Inspection Results

While preparing a use case for a client, I encountered a need for inspection forms to facilitate the execution of audits and safety drills, such as those mandated by the ISM (International Maritime Organization) like Man Overboard, Fire Drill, Oil...
6 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Future consideration

Set the default value for the maximo property webclient.maxdownloadrows to 200 to limit the list tab download.

Manage by default is having the -1 value set for the property webclient.maxdownloadrows which allow client to download n number of record from the list tab which is causing Out of Memory error. The technote - https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/limi...
17 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Updates from Classification are reflected on Asset Templates

Product: Maximo Asset Management Subcomponent: Asset Templates Operating system: All Description: When classifications are updated on the specifications tab the associated asset templates should be updated. For example, when adding an attribute to...
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration