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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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IBM MAS - Manage (Base)

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Prevent the Cancel of a PO if an un approved invoice exists

Update the IDEA name to align with the Case file how IBM would solve this problem. We have a PO that has been canceled that has an invoice that is approved. We need to reverse the invoice as it was invoiced in error. When we try and approve the RE...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 3 Planned for future release

Add the ability to use an Inspection Form as a way to capture information that can populate other records in Maximo

An inspection form should be able to be set up to capture data. The data captured should be able to update other Maximo objects. New assets are being constructed. There is a form to capture additional details such as serial number, was the as buil...
7 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Planned for future release

PO Accounting changes cannot be made after there are charges (Financial transactions from Receipts / Invoices / etc.) to the PO.

PO Line Accounting Cannot be Revised on a PO if there are Receipts/Actuals. This results in Invoices Not Paid due to Incorrect Accounting that cannot be classified differently than the Distributed PO Line.
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Ability to add an image to the inspection form itself (Ex. Provide a picture to person performing inspection) within Manage Inspection Forms

Within new Inspection work center, if added to the form, it could provide useful information to the person actually performing the inspection later.
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Future consideration

Create native db views via Maximo db config

For those of us who don't have CREATE VIEW privileges in the database: It would be helpful if there could be a way to create native db views via Maximo. The views would later be imported into Maximo as imported view objects. Related posts: Views D...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 3 Functionality already exists

Workorders Generated From PMs Written Against a Location (Which Only Has One Asset) Should Only List the Location

Maximo currently adds the asset to any workorder generated by a PM associated with a location if the location only has one asset. This make no sense for our company for we want any work done associated with the location and not the asset. If we wa...
over 10 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 6 Not under consideration

Custom bind variables

It would be helpful if we could define custom bind variables in Maximo. Examples: &FIRSTNAME& &ISINTERACTIVE& &ENVNAME& (i.e. the Maximo environment name; not the same thing as the existing :&HOSTNAME& variable). Us...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 3 Future consideration

Routes should be revision controlled

Request for having revision control on Routes Working with rail or high-power electrical systems, authority audits will be conducted on a regular basis. This is to ensure that Sund & Bælt performs the necessary maintenance by correctly skille...
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Future consideration

Re-implement Workflow Designer

The current state of the Workflow designer could be improved in several dimensions. The flow charting design tool is erratic and difficult to use, arbitrarily redrawing the canvas (and not in a particularly usable manner). The actual objects do no...
over 6 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration

MAS Manage - Report Data availability in single sheet for xlsx format on download

For any BIRT Report having multiple pages in Maximo Manage, the data is also being split into Multiple Sheets in the excel if we are downloading using XLSX format after executing the Report in browser. Since many of the Users are using the xlsx ve...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Reporting 1 Not under consideration