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IBM Sustainability Software - Ideas Portal


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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IBM MAS - Manage (Base)

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Work Orders (RBA) - Workflow Assignments should show the Assigned Person Code

In the Work Orders role-based application, the Workflow Assignments option shows the process and task but not the Assigned Person Code as you would see on any Workflow enabled application in a classic Maximo application. You should be able to easi...
23 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Under review

Life Sciences requirement: Displaying Data Sheet Template Tolerances and Ranges on Asset Records

Metrology users would benefit from an ability view Data Sheet Template details, specifically ranges and tolerances, on an instrument (asset) record.
4 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Under review

Lease/Rental Contracts - Handling of asset rentals for a small number of days

In the current Lease/Rental Contracts the Term is in months. When hiring equipment, from tool hire or plant hire companies, the term may be measured in days with only one payment or a few payments including a refundable deposit. Ideally you would ...
24 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Under review

Lease/Rental Contracts - Add the term and number of payments to modifiable fields on the Associated Asset to provide greater flexibility

The term and number of payments are on the lease/rental contract header which means that if the term or number of payments will differ for an asset you need to create another contract. This can lead to many contracts with the same vendor, each wit...
24 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Under review

Utilise AI to provide a simpler interface when creating reports. For example: Show me the bad actors in this area.

Having the ability to use normal language to create a query that pulls back information from the manage database would reduce the time it takes to gather results and insights into data. At the moment the process requires individuals to write SQL o...
about 2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Reporting 0 Under review

Require e-Signature on Completing Inspection from RBA/WorkCentre/Mobile

Problem Statement: When a technician is performing an inspection and completing it, they are able to confirm the inspection without an e-Signature. Business Impact : When Maximo is used by a clients in the Life Sciences domain, the data is strictl...
26 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Under review

Life Sciences requirement: Instrument Standard Transaction

Metrology users would benefit from an ability to edit tool transactions (TOOLTRANS object) even after Complete or Closed work order status.
about 2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Calibration 0 Under review

Move Parent Asset to new Location but Leave Children that have other Location

It is allowed to change location on Child Assets in an Asset Assembly.This can be usefull to have more detailed location information for these (grand)children.However when moving the Top Asset all Children will inherit the new Location. Organizati...
3 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Under review

Add Setting to have the Reorder process for Direct Material / Services to create separate Purchase Requisitions for different Work Orders

To automate administrative tasks we are leveraging the Reorder process (and the Reorder Cron Task) to generate our Purchase Requisitions. There is a very common use case though where Multiple WOs are being planned, or approved within the same time...
4 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Under review

Life Sciences requirement: Ability to Enter Multiple Tolerances on Assets

Metrology users would benefit from an ability to define multiple tolerances for an instrument (asset) record.
4 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Under review