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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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IBM MAS - Manage (Base)

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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...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Reporting 0 Under review

Shrink Image sizes when uploading to Inspection Form

We cannot expect our end users to change the picture formatting themselves when uploading images to an inspection form in the field on their phones. Most pictures we are seeing are about 10Meg in size. Maximo needs to shrink the image size nativel...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Under review

Lease/Rental Contracts - Associated Assets - Addition of a multi-select lookup designed for the contract, replacing Select More Assets

When you select assets, you may have defined contract lines which reference rotating items, you must have authorized sites, therefore the Select More Assets dialog which does not even restrict to the assets of the organization of the contract is i...
4 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Under review

7.6.1.3 - ASSETSPEC DISPLAYSEQUENCE is SMALLINT, but needs to be INT

We have GIS Pipelines that stretch over large distances. As a result, certain Pipeline Assets have thousands of Specs (10 Specs per length of pipe). When we create the Asset Specs through integration, the ASSETSPEC.DISPLAYSEQUENCE field is increme...
4 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Under review

Associate dynamic numeric ranges in the inspection forms.

Currently it is possible to include conditional settings using a numeric range with fixed values, but for business case these values should be dynamic and depend on the asset. Business case: Our client wants to display in the inspection form resul...
4 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Under review

Work Orders (RBA) - List view should show work type and not the work type description for multiple reasons

Reasons: - The work type description is much wider than five characters and will take up more room- The description is not a unique attribute and may be repeated multiple times as it is in the MAXDEMO database- The description does not exist in th...
4 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 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 ...
4 months 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...
4 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Under review

Assets application to show that an asset is part of an active lease/rental contract

Assets are leased and rented, and you need a visual indicator to know that you should look up the contract details to determine whether you are allowed to perform maintenance (or not), perhaps review properties or terms and conditions. From the As...
4 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Under review

Currently Role Base Inspection "Enter Time" on the inspection form only pops up widget on mobile and not desktop

We have users performing inspections on desktops, IE material receiving, however if you create an inspection form and add a time field, you cannot select a time. I was told this is not a bug by IBM, however "Role-Based" is more designed for mobile...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Under review