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Asset/Work Management

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Edit location on historical work order

We have a business need to change the location of a work order when it is in status CLOSED and the work order is historical. This need arose from discovering that work orders have been reported on the wrong location, and this is after the work ord...
9 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration

Attributes defined as YORN data type should be allowed utilize crossover domains

While it is understandable that ALN, Numeric and Table Domains are not allowed to be defined on YORN datatype attributes in Maximo database configuration, there is a need for crossing YORN datatype attributes from one object to another. I have a b...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 2 Not under consideration

Allow multiple Start Centers per Security Group

Ressurecting Idea MASM-I-292 from 2016 for reconsideration... When setting up a security group, only one Start Center is allowed per group. However, sometimes an extra Start Center is needed for a set of users, which then requires an extra securit...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration

Communication template for Email Listener uses links for response that open response email with response value instead of requiring user to enter response value in response email

•Maximo Email Listener provides capability of requesting response from users on transactional records such as Work Orders, Purchase Requests, Purchase Orders, and Invoices etc. for approvals/Rejections without getting them logged into application....
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration

Remove Non-breaking spaces from Excel downloads for true accuracy

Whenever the download to Excel option is used in Maximo the resulting Excel files contains NON-BREAKING SPACE(U+00A0) instead of the value in the database which is SPACE(U+0020). This means that the values in Excel are not accurate and cause probl...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic Job Plans should allow to enter job plan duration that is less than 1 minute.

There are some inspections that last only few seconds but overall it takes minutes to complete them all because there is hundreds of them in a batch. If they get one minute each then total time is much longer than real inspection time. For example...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration

Work Center Print/Report Functionality

Customers are progressively using the Work Center applications but the apps lack the use of print or reporting tools. We are hopeful this functionality will be considered in future plans.
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Not under consideration

Restriction on asset drilldown

Data restriction on asset - drilldown should apply with global data restriction. Steps to reproduce: 1. Create global restriction on "Object Restriction" for object asset (type: Qualified and condition (for example status = 'X') 2. Go to asset app...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 3 Not under consideration

The translation of "asset" in Japanese

The organization that defines the guidelines for asset management in Japan has changed the translation of Asset from "資産" to "アセット". https://webdesk.jsa.or.jp/books/W11M0090/?bunsyo_id=JIS%20Q%2055002:2021 I would like to update the translation of...
12 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration

Allow Users to Create New Work Order on WOTRACK Related Records Tab

We propose adding the ability to create a new related work order without leaving the current work order within the Related Records tab. This would save time and reduce errors. Note that this functionality is already available on the Actuals tab in...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Not under consideration