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PINNED Power BI capability alignment between Desktop vs embedded solution
Requesting Customer: Fraser Property but this would benefit all customers using Envizi Power BI capability Business Impact: The Frasers Property Team have recently explored the use of the embeded PowerBI functionality and have found that there are...
PINNED Enable inventory reservation automatic cron task for specific site
Advantage : Enable the cron for specific site which is necessary. Summary: In Maximo, we have more than 50 Active sites. When we try to enable inventory reservation automatic cron task for specific site, There is no Cron Parameters are available....

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Pare down the WORKORDER table (it's too big)

The WORKORDER table is too big, especially when Maximo add-ons are installed (~300 columns). Some of the old/extra columns should be retired. This would improve Maximo performance.
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Rhapsody Output Window Text Colour

I would like to be able to change the text colour in Rhapsody's output window. I've tried sending ANSI control characters to the API method writeToOutputWindow(), but they were ignored.I've raised this issue with IBM support (case TS006795261) who...
about 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Systems Design Rhapsody/RMM / Code and Execution 0 Future consideration

Automatic timeout (Anywhere Work Technician)

Anywhere Work Technician 7.6.4: It would be helpful if the Anywhere app could automatically log out after a specified amount of time (not to be confused with LTPA timeout, etc.). This would help avoid user confusion with shared devices -- i.e. use...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Mobile 2 Not under consideration

Indicate current user and environment/URL (Anywhere Work Technician)

In the Anywhere Work Technician 7.6.4 app, it would be helpful if we could: Determine what user is currently logged in -- put the user name at the top of the screen, just like Maximo Desktop. - If this can't be done at the top of the screen, then ...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Mobile 1 Not under consideration

Technote needed: Committing transactions to continuous vs. sequential queues

A blurb from an email from IBM: Continuous queues use MDBs which use container transactions. So when the transaction completes it is automatically committed. Sequential queues, on the other hand, have a cron task which delivers messages to Maximo ...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Future consideration

DNG should sort the attributes in the artifact type definition screen

With the "Manage Component Properties" menu, you can define new artifact types. In the artifact type definition screen you can add some custom attributes to an exisiting type. If you are not careful, the added attributes are not sorted by accordin...
about 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Administration 2 Not under consideration

SRs created in Work Centers are unable to generate description based on Spec attributes

When creating an SR using Work Centers, the SRs do not generate correct description upon submitting the SR request if the Classification is setup to generate description based on the spec attribute values. Similar steps taken to create an SR in Cl...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

PM Interval Reset

When a work order for a meter based PM is completed, the current meter reading on the asset is used to update the PM. The meter reading entered on the work order when the work was completed should be used to update the PM rather than the current r...
over 9 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Future consideration

Make Rhapsody Picker Accessible from API

Rhapsody currently has an out-of-the-box "picker", which is a filterable view of the model browser that allows users to browse/select elements. This request is to make the picker accessible from the Rhapsody API.
about 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Systems Design Rhapsody/RMM / Integrations and APIs 0 Future consideration

Documentation: Flow Control

Please add comprehensive/up-to-date information to the docs about Flow Control. The documentation should include things like: What happens when WO.FLOWCONTROLLED is enabled? There is OOB functionality that gets turned on by default, yet we don't h...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Common Services 2 Not under consideration