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IBM MAS - Manage (Base)

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Ad-hoc report text fields: Align-left instead of align-right (optional setting)

Maximo aligns ad-hoc report text fields to the right, instead of to the left. Screenshot: https://i.stack.imgur.com/KrbtZ.png That's different from most software platforms. Other programs like Excel, MS Access, and SQL clients align text to the le...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Not under consideration

DB Config: Only discard pending changes for specific objects

When making changes to several objects in DB Config: Often, we want to discard the changes to one of the objects before applying the changes. Currently, there isn't a way to discard the changes to specific objects. Instead, we need to discarding t...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Future consideration

Do you offer a normalized METERREADING fact table?

The in situ METERREADING fact table appears to be de-normalized and as such may accidentally trigger data hazards such as: Fluidity; Ageing; Biasing; Falsification /Misinformation; Disassociation; Masking; Volume; and/or Interpretation. (And/or in...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Importing a view: Don't make the attribute fields be read-only

When importing a view: (not to be confused with creating a view in Maximo directly via the UI) With imported views, there is a limitation in the DB Config application —> Attributes tab where the attribute fields become arbitrarily read-only, de...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Future consideration

BIRT Support for converting base64 images pasted into Task LD field to print to pdf

Maximo allows images to be pasted into Job Plan Task Long Description field, but when you attempt to print to pdf, the images aren't output. The IBM method is to Attach the images using the "Insert Image" URL link feature. While this works, it def...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Enhancing Maximo Exception Scripts for Improved Debugging Capabilities

Currently, automation scripts associated with message errorGroup and errorKey in Maximo are executed when an MXException is instantiated, provided the script is named MXERR.{errorgroup}.{errokey}. While this mechanism is valuable for automating ac...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Not under consideration

Application XML: List of possible XML properties

It would be helpful if IBM could publish a list of properties that are available for application XML. For example, how would we find out about table control properties like "collapsewhenempty"? There doesn't seem to be any documentation on the pro...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Status/Error message for Importing more records than MAX setting

At this time If a user goes over the limits in using the export/import (preview) there is no obvious in your face warning displayed. I want to see if this is working as designed or if someone goes over a limit a warning should be displayed to them.
about 6 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 0 Future consideration

Create view without an outage

Related: Audit tables don't require outage, but custom table does? It's possible to create audit tables without needing admin mode. If that's the case, then why would we need admin mode to create a custom view? The two scenarios seem similar. I wo...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 3 Not under consideration

Return of consignment items to storeroom from work order

When a consignment item (received through a PO) with cost type as FIFO issue to work order and then returned back to store location do not have MATRECTRANSID reference and it's cost is also not being tracked properly
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 3 Future consideration

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