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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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Move MR Business Logic out of Bean Class and into MBO

There seems to be business logic around Material Requisition status that is being executed in bean classes and not within the Maximo Business Object associated with MRs. If a new MR is created in the Maximo UI and there is an active workflow on th...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 2 Future consideration

Disable: Asset gets auto-populated if location has single asset

It would be helpful if there were a system setting that could be used to disable the following functionality: In a WO, the asset gets auto-populated if the location only has a single asset A lot of organizations don't want that functionality. I th...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Maximo mxe.ltpatoken.timeout needs to be able to retrospectively delete records in the LTPATOKEN table

Currently, the code does not cater for retrospective deletions of the LTPATOKEN table should an event occur that stops the process set via the mxe.ltpatoken.timeout. If data is present before the timeout date is not get deleted. This can lead to a...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

Maximo views: Increase SQL FROM clause character limit

When creating a view object in Maximo db config: The view's FROM clause can only have 1000 characters. BMXAA4049E 1000 characters might seem like a lot, but in fact, many queries have more than 1000 characters in the FROM clause, especially if the...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Add width control to app designer table column

When configuring a table in application designer, often the width of a column needs to be extended to allow full visibility of the data. There is no option on the table column properties for this, however exporting the XML and adding a width="xx" ...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

StartCenter query on a duplicate database

We are facing a big problem of slowness on certain start centers associated with specific accounts. Requests made on these start centers can take up to 1 minute given the pool of data we have (~20 million lines). As long as this request from the s...
11 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

Maximo support for zpl printer format

Client wants to output the direct print option of BIRT report to extract them in zpl printer format instead of pdf
11 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Caching of Sequences for Maximo tables to void performance issue.

Caching of Sequences for Maximo tables to void performance issue. Maximo / Manage installation should set the Sequence caching for all the Maximo/Manage table to avoid the performance issue. Currently we have to set the sequence caching for all th...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Implement canApprove() method in purchasing record Status Handlers

When implementing workflow for purchasing records (PR, PO, Invoice) it would be very useful to have a single method that contained all of the logic for verifying that the record is ready for approval. In some record types in Maximo, there is a can...
almost 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

VET Provide functionality to highlight slow crontasks in real time

Amend the crontask instance definition so it includes:- A new attribute "runtimeThres" which defines how the threshold in milliseconds- Amend the crontask history object so it includes:- A flag to indicate if the crontask took longer than the thre...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration