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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Pinned ideas

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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Support in-memory tables

In-memory db tables can provide significant performance improvements for high-transaction tables (like meter readings). In-memory tables are available in all db platforms. The only catch is that the technology is implemented differently between pl...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Procurement Work Centers

Create new Work Center functionalities to enable procurement management processes:- PR and "Desktop" requisitions- PO- Invoices- Workflows driven approval processes (can be applied to any work-center module)- Create Business Analytics Work-Center ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Allow multiple Start Centers per Security Group

Ressurecting Idea MASM-I-292 from 2016 for reconsideration... When setting up a security group, only one Start Center is allowed per group. However, sometimes an extra Start Center is needed for a set of users, which then requires an extra securit...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration

Communication template for Email Listener uses links for response that open response email with response value instead of requiring user to enter response value in response email

•Maximo Email Listener provides capability of requesting response from users on transactional records such as Work Orders, Purchase Requests, Purchase Orders, and Invoices etc. for approvals/Rejections without getting them logged into application....
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration

Add a refresh button to Maximo applications

Scenario: A WO has been modified, so the user wants to refresh it in the browser to see the latest data. The refresh button in Chrome doesn't work as we might expect -- it doesn't refresh the record. Instead, the user needs to drag the WONUM from ...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Not under consideration

In Maximo Application Suite, the start center portlet does not auto refresh automatically.

Hello Team,In Maximo Application Suite, the start center portlet does not auto refresh in MAS. Client needs to manually update the start center whenever there is an update.Could you please help us in adding the auto refresh feature for the start c...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Ability configure Rich Text Box Control

Unlike other controls within the Maximo Application Designer, the Rich Text Box Control does not allow any configuration of its properties i.e default font, default font size, width etc.
over 5 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

Speeding Up Report List Loading Time

We have over 10,000 BIRT reports in our database and if someone has updated any of those or created a new adhoc report, then all those reports need to be reloaded in the screen report cache the next time someone goes to run a report on that JVM. T...
over 7 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

When Maximo is hosted in IBM cloud and user authentication is configured to use SAML it is not allowed to synchronize users including security groups with LDAPsync. The response from the IDP provider (ex Azure) includes the user information and security group. Why can't Maximo SAML integration use this information to create and update users in Maximo.

This will solve the issue with missing users and wrong securitygroups in Manage based on manual maintenenace. Today we spend lot of time to create new users and add securitygroups based on email information. Is there any other solution available t...
10 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Disassociate an asset from an asset template

We accidentally associated an existing asset with an asset template using the "Apply to Existing Assets" option in the Asset Templates application in Maximo. It would be useful to be able to disassociate the asset from the asset template in front-...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration