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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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PINNED Enable inventory reservation automatic cron task for specific site
Advantage : Enable the cron for specific site which is necessary. Summary: In Maximo, we have more than 50 Active sites. When we try to enable inventory reservation automatic cron task for specific site, There is no Cron Parameters are available....

IBM MAS - Manage (Base)

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allow users to pin favorite queries

The list of Available Queries shows the first 20 queries this user has access to based on and sorted in alphabetical order. When there are more than 20 queries the user must use the View More Queries action at the bottom of the Available Queries l...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Spare Part Auto Add should not add a part when the issue type is 'RETURN'

Spare Part Auto Add function appears to add parts even when the issue type is 'RETURN' and it should not. When issue is errant and someone goes to fix the asset spare part manually, but someone else later returns the part, the RETURN transaction w...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Future consideration

Manage Inspection Forms - The system should allow you to create a checklist type form to perform walk through inspections

There are many scenarios where a checklist (table) format inspection can be utilized. Housekeeping uses a Check list to mark if specific tasks were done in a particular day of the week.
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Change report scheduling date dialogue box to allow for annual report scheduling

The date schedule dialogue box for report scheduling in all applications is less detailed than in other places in Maximo (escalations, cron task instances), and does not allow for annually scheduled reports, such as run on May 15th every year.
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration

Implement collate/staple functionality when printing using the non-Java applet direct print

Direct printing with the system properties mxe.report.directprint.useapplet=1 and mxe.report.birt.PrintSeparateRecord=1 correctly collates/staples printed reports for each separate record (i.e. direct printing multiple work orders) only in Interne...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

Allow User Specific Extensions of System XML

Today, users add custom configurations to System XML when they want to add columns to dialogs and created new menus. These changes get overwritten when IBM releases new versions of these objects (LIBRARY.XML, MENUS.XML).A System/Org/Site level ext...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

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...
8 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

Query admin tool is needed

Query administration can be troublesome when trying to do remote support as well as ensuring decent house cleaning. Hence, having a Query admin tool is a need. As an MaxAdmin, I need to have a Query Admin app, so that I can do administration on us...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Future consideration

User Facing Audit Trail Visibility

A common request from management is to be able to view audit trail data for inventory and purchasing within the Maximo UI. This would essentially be a human-readable, easily accessible view of data contained in Maximo audit tables, including when ...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

Need to add the JVM instance to Cron logs

Currently when troubelshooting issues with Cron runs we do not have access to the information of which JVM it ran on etc. This makes troubleshooting issues such as failures and long running Cron jobs extremely difficult.
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration