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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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COH Provide ability to automatically define a custom folder structure for an attachment that is being uploaded to an S3 folder.

Current situation The out of the box S3 Java class puts the attachments into a single S3 storage folder. Our client needs the ability to store the attachments to a custom folder structure in the S3 storage folder. Requirement: Provide solution whe...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 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

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...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Future consideration

Add Setting to have the Reorder process for Direct Material / Services to create separate Purchase Requisitions for different Work Orders

To automate administrative tasks we are leveraging the Reorder process (and the Reorder Cron Task) to generate our Purchase Requisitions. There is a very common use case though where Multiple WOs are being planned, or approved within the same time...
11 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Future consideration

Prevent deleting attributes with launch points, or drop launch points when attributes are dropped

Maximo allows administrators and developers to drop custom attributes which have Automation Script Launch Points registered against them -- without even giving a warning. Thus, Maximo can be left with a referential integrity problem, and Integrity...
about 8 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Future consideration

"Super" PM Forecast view - ALL PMs for given Assets, Locations / Routes in sequence with costs by categories and detailed rows for required resources

Suggested by Clifton at Gulfstream - would like an easier way to audit and plan future PMs, particularly for Material (and tooling?) requirements planning. Give the option for the user to enter a date range / number of days for given assets / loca...
6 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Maximo needs a Job Plan Central Library

Job Plan Central Library that will include the following requirements:  The definition of a mechanism to create a Central Job Plan Library in Maximo  Ability to assemble Model level Job plans by including sub job plans from library (Similar to ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 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 ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

Birt report (SVG export) as Additional Application Designer component

As a system administrator I would like to include a Birt Report output (without navigation, only the report output) in the UI as an SVG/PNG graphic Such that I can include charts and dynamic graphics in the UI There are various needs to add a grap...
3 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Reporting 0 Future consideration

When Asset Costing is used the work/job plan material should have the option of how to derive the unit cost

Currently when asset costing is used the work plan materials unit cost will be zero even if all the rotating assets in the storeroom have the same inventory cost. A unit cost should be added (it can easily be missed by the planner) otherwise you a...
6 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 2 Future consideration