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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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Performance : autokeys generate huge database contentions when using parallelism

When loading XML files via MIF using JMS Continuous Queue with Webphere parameter maxConcurrency = 100, I notice 99 Oracle sessions are blocked on "enq: TX row lock contention" when attempting to update autokey table (SQL statement : update autoke...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration

Security Groups Suite Level Application - Grant Rights in Bulk

In MAS 9.1 in the Security Group Suite Level application, rights cannot be granted all at once, they need to be granted one by one. For a particular security group, it would very useful to grant rights in bulk, just like in the Security Group (Man...
4 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Planned for future release

Maximo enforces validation on single WO updates but skips it for list-filter changes, creating inconsistent behavior that should be aligned.

Maximo should enforce consistent validation rules across all update methods for Work Orders—including single updates, mass updates, and list-filter changes. Currently, mandatory field checks and status restrictions apply only to individual updates...
16 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Under review

Improve MAS9 deployment process to allow deploying java customizations with minimal or no downtime

Today in 7.6 we deploy java customizations without taking a full outage via a process we call dynamic deployment. This is a homegrown process where essentially, we have 2 data centers and we take Maximo down in 1 data center and deploy the change ...
2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Inspection Templates - A dynamic framework for inspection forms

Our client is implementing MAS Manage8 and we've customized the inspection solution (using automation scripts) as per the client's requirement. They have 'templates' for inspections, they are generalized for some asset types and the questions are ...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 3 Planned for future release

Teams Integration with Core Maximo - Workflow, Work Orders, etc.

Maximo IT currently has integration with Teams for Service Requests and other parts. I would like to see this expanded to core Maximo to include things like rejection/approval for Workflow assignments or ownerships of Work Orders etc.
4 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Workflow 0 Future consideration

Enhance APPBEAN/DATABEAN Automation Scripting to allow classes from maximouiweb.war

IBM has enhanced automation scripting in 9.1. You now have the ability to extend Application Beans (APPBEAN) and Data Beans (DATABEAN) (i.e. enable system property mxe.script.allowbeanscript). I discovered a class loader limitation while creating ...
4 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Equalize the XML response with the JSON output in the Maximo OSCL API

While JSON is the much more lightweight output format, xml is still very relevant and should show the same data like the JSON. So far, very helpful attributes like descriptions of domain values (eg. status_description, devicelass_description) is n...
6 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 1 Future consideration

Adding a Gallery section or module on Assets, Work Orders, etc.

Introduce a dedicated Gallery tab or section in key Maximo applications such as Assets, Work Orders, Locations, etc., allowing users to view and manage multiple images related to a record in a visual, user-friendly way. This gallery would be based...
4 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

API for activating migrated workflows

There now is an API to deploy migration packages but for workflows there still needs to be a manual step to activate/enable the workflows.To be able to have a fully automated deployment process it would be great to have an API for activating/enabl...
7 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Workflow 0 Future consideration