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Asset/Work Management

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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...
11 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Future consideration

Enable ability to update OrgId and SiteId values after duplicating a Job Plan

This minor change in functionality would enable the creation of "template" Job Plans with no OrgId/SiteId values, which could be duplicated and updated with Org and/or Site specific changes.
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 2 Future consideration

Provide a way to mass assign a lead to a work order through common actions

We have dispatchers that assign work to work groups and the work groups then assign a lead to the work order. The amount of work orders that are entered have to be reviewed individually one at a time prior to assigning leads. Most of the informati...
11 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Add Reservation type to Job plan

It would be useful to add the same reservation type drop down to job plan planned materials. This way, you could nominated items as SOFT so that when it is a work order, the planned SOFT materials are available as a reference but do not force item...
12 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Future consideration

Provide ability to define global settings in the graphite designer e.g. table row type = compact

the application will allow administrators to define a table's row type as compact. adminstrators may want to set this globally across all their apps. currently administrators have to edit each of the tables in the applications
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Discard auto fill for asset field when newly creating PM work order against location

We are using MAS 8.7 and currently for any Work Order generated from PM, if the PM has only Location associated and that Location has single Asset then that Asset is copied to the Work Order. If the PM has multiple Assets within hierarchy then Par...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

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...
about 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...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future 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...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 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...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration