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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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PINNED Power BI capability alignment between Desktop vs embedded solution
Requesting Customer: Fraser Property but this would benefit all customers using Envizi Power BI capability Business Impact: The Frasers Property Team have recently explored the use of the embeded PowerBI functionality and have found that there are...
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....

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Possible to acquire lock on element in Rhapsody before changes shown in EWM

EWM was not automatically showing incoming changes before the lock in Rhapsody was released. Therefore a second user could acquire a lock on an element before changes were displayed in EWM. This could leading to a merge issue. Request is to allow ...
8 months ago in IBM Engineering - Systems Design Rhapsody/RMM / Rhapsody Client 2 Planned for future release

Migration Manager - how to identify who deployed the package

We are using Migration Manager to deploy packages. However, the same developer cannot deploy the package in Production. The deployment has to done by another developer. In the Maximo DB Table, DMPACKAGE, DMPACKAGEDEF and DMPKGSTATUS, there are no ...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

In Graphical Work Week, it would be useful if the hovering on the assignment bar displayed other data in addition the full WO or Task description.

In the Gantt View, hovering over an assignment bar displays the full Work Order or Task description. It would be useful have a hover dialog similar to fields such as WORKORDER.ASSETNUM or WORKORDER.PARENT that have a small circle i on the Work Ord...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Scheduler 1 Future consideration

Status Changes not to use web method to allow customisations

Currently a status change in Mobile utilises a web method to perform the change status in Maximo. This does not allow for any integration automation scripts to be utilised for any customisations. Examples of customisations would be to ignore statu...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Mobile 1 Not under consideration

Add Capability to Create and Manage Access Groups for Permissions Management in DOORS Next

Managing individual users in the tool can be quite cumbersome for large organizations and teams.
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Administration 2 Future consideration

In Asset/Location Applications, display what Inspections forms are currently associated to Asset in 'Associate Inspection Form' dialog

Assets and/or Locations may have multiple inspection forms associated to them. To manage an individual asset/location - it would be very helpful to see what Inspection Forms are currently associated with that asset/location. The existing dialog ...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

DOORS Server badly needs a rollback / undo feature for failed transactions beyond the backup/current/new data file concept currently in use

The connection between DOORS Client and DOORS Server is prone to outages by the nature of its design. DOORS Clients contain most of the application logic, DOORS server has the storage abilities. The transfer of new / edited / processed data betwee...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Server 0 Future consideration

Add means to update / modify baseline access controls in limited scenarios.

Static / frozen Access Control Lists block baselines from being accessed on different - or same but evolved, databases, where users and groups differ / have changed. This is especially an issue when a module with baselines is restored from an arch...
about 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS/DOORS Web Access / Baselines 0 Future consideration

To address multi site user bases working on DOORS data, add a feature that allows for multisite database provision, data replication and caching.

Multi Site user bases can sometimes be brought closer to their DOORS server by using Terminal Server or Citrix. In some cases connections may be even unsuitable for those approaches (latency, HOPS). Since it is increasingly not the case, that peop...

Add a facility to restart the DOORS database server Windows service from within the admin tools (dbadmin / dbsadmin).

Currently only a 'killserver' command is available. Restarting the windows service for doorsd.exe / the DOORS DB server still requires (manual) access to Windows Server admin tools. Such access is increasingly blocked / restricted and typically no...