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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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Improve Config DB Performance

We have a Maximo database with approximately 5 million workorder records. CONFIGDB is slow when adding multiple YORN fields to large tables. In order to improve Config DB Performance the process should group the updates, rather than running ...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Future consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration

PM Forecasts do not reflect Dynamic

It seems the PM Forecasts remain being calculated as static. I tested it with two PMs having the same Job Plan assigned to it, with different Total Work Units assigned on Job Plan Sequence. Forecast Costs, when calculated, came up as identical.Her...
over 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 3 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...
10 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

Add the Asset.FailureClass (Failure Code) to the Asset Template Application

Failure code is used extensionally in Asset Managment, it needs to be added to the Asset Template application for data efficiency.
7 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Ability to have more than one UI bundle/cluster as it was possible on WAS in 7.6 Maximo

Hi IBM, 7.6 Maximo/WAS allowed to create more than one UI clusters and then it was possible to create two different load balancer URLs and then route the same to two different UI clusters.E e.g. In 7.6, we have created two different UI cluster let...
4 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

VET Improve autoscript related logging when creating automation scripts

Currently a significant number of autoscript developers log their entries to the autoscript logger. Using the autoscript logger risks generating large numbers of log entries if an unsuspecting administrator sets the log level to INFO/DEBUG while t...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration

create indexes in parallel via dbc / script / statements / specify_index

Lengthy outages for upgrades are one of Maximo's liabilities. That liability can be reduced by implementing this RFE. The DBC "statements" "specify_index" tag needs to be upgraded to support creating indexes as temporarily parallel indexes. This c...
about 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration

PO Revision History should include Deleted Lines

PO Revision History includes lines added and modified with each revision of the PO. However, it does not include PO lines that are deleted with a PO Revision. For a Revision History to be complete it should include Added, Modified and Deleted line...
about 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Future consideration

Revise REORDER Calc for tighter control and take Lead Times into consideration.

There are companies ordering and maintaining stock with extra long lead times, and has considerably increased with the advent of COVID.
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 3 Future consideration