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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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Asset auto-populates from Location entry when the location has a single asset

Add the option to turn off the Asset auto-populates from Location entry when the location has a single asset feature.
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 4 Planned for future release

include server, username, date/time in error dialog/pop-up

When a user gets an error that they can work around but they want to report to administrators, they often include a screenshot of the error in the email or support ticket. The problem is that a lot of questions the administrator will ask during tr...
about 5 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Planned for future release

Work Order (RBA) - Identify the owner of a public custom view

When there is a custom public view you should be able to determine who the owner is without resorting to SQL Tools. Perhaps a green coloured button like Public, but showing Owner followed by the Display name of the person of the user who created t...
3 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Not under consideration

Count Books - Selection Items when Selection Type is ITEM should have a Go To Menu to navigate to Inventory and Stocked Tools

Finding the correct item sometimes requires you to navigate to the core application (Inventory or Stocked Tools), find the item using the Advanced Search and returning with the value back to the originating application. The Selection Items field o...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Future consideration

Count Books - Select Value on Selection Items when Selection Type is ITEM should show Inventory Description

Select Value shows Item and Storeroom. The Item, Description, Commodity Group and Commodity Code should be shown, similar to trying to find an item elsewhere in Maximo, for example Work Order Tracking - Plans - Materials. The Storeroom column is n...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Future consideration

Count Books - You should be able to navigate from Count Book Lines back to the Inventory application so that you can review the inventory item.

The Item field in the Count Book Lines tab and the table window and table window details should have a Go To menu with navigation back to the Inventory application so that you can review the item or make changes that would affect future Count Book...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Future consideration

All indexes to be added to audit tables through UI

In Maximo 7.x, administrators can set an attribute to have an audit history be enabled the "Audit Enabled" checkbox. When enabled, Maximo will create an audit table to track changes made to that attribute. The table that is created is then part of...
over 6 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

Increase the size of the Location Hierarchy Dialog in Manage

Our users are wondering if the Dialog size could be bigger for the Location Hierarchy Dialog in the Locations application. Larger or have the ability to resize to fit the users needs at the time.

Ability to 'unobsolete' an item status at both 'INVENTORY' and 'ITEM' level

Occasionally we have obsoleted items because of low usage, historical reasons or whatever. Then the inventory team get a request to change the status back from OBSOLETE back to ACTIVE. Currently this does not work but wanting to know if its possib...
8 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration

Tools API should provide call to run LATestFixReportWriter.sh

For Manage, at this point, the only way to run this to get into the maxinst pod and run the command the manually. Then, if S3 COS will be configured you can take the reports from the bucket if not you need to manually get it from the pod and provi...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Planned for future release