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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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Publish protected Excel workbooks

Some users need to produce tabular metrics to Excel and they do not want consumers to be able to manipulate the data or the formulas within the workbook. Exporting a protected workbook directly from Publishing would help these users.
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Usability 2 Delivered

Control conditional formatting of cells in Excel output format

Certain functions of Excel conditional formatting, such as filling the cell according to the percent value within the cell to imply a "progress bar" is not able to be controlled from Publishing.

Publish to Excel and automatically run macro, like Word

It is useful to be able to automate functionality that Publishing does not support within the output format. For example, Publishing could kick off an Excel macro to automatically apply conditional formatting to certain cells in a Worksheet. I env...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing / Launcher 1 Delivered

Standard reports in PLUSXWO app.

Having installed the WO Tracking (CI) (= PLUSXWO), it's obvious that standard reports aren't part of the installation. New customers will need to have the reports. Already existing customers most likely will need to have them as well.
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Civil 4 Delivered

Maximo should automatically announce that attached file(s) exist

As a user in Maximo, I know that images, copy of invoices, schematic drawings etc. might be attached to my Work Order, to my Service Request etc., but I can only know if I actively look-up the list of attached documents. I need Maximo to tell me t...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Delivered

List views and user's ability to add/remove/arrange columns

List views and user's ability to add/remove/arrange columns to suit him the best and ensure that download from list views contains the same columns in same order as well. In addition, ensure to comply with the security setup. That goes for list vi...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 4 Delivered

SSO Just in Time Provisioning

It would be very useful and productive to have Just in Time provisioning of users in MAS and Maximo Manage when using SAML SSO authentication.
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Common Services 1 Delivered

Choice of choosing Start Travel or Start Work with Maximo Mobile

The technician should be able to choose between start work or start travel when using Maximo Mobile. This means also, that espiacally when using a smartphone, where it's not visible if the "start" means travel or work that either he can chosse aft...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Mobile 1 Delivered

Display meaningful message to the user during load times

Under some circumstances, Maximo Mobile will display a spinning wheel to indicate the application is busy that can go for quite a long time For our customer, when connecting to a PROD-like database, going into My Schedule for the first time will c...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Mobile 2 Delivered

Ability to use Master pages in a .dta file to add a header and footer to Excel exports, and not just to .doc and .pdf exports

Our document archival process requires that archived documents contain a cover sheet with a header and footer, and some of those documents are in Excel. Currently, users are manually adding a cover sheet on Excel exported documents. This is cumber...
about 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Lifecycle Optimization Publishing 2 Delivered