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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

Maximo Manage System Property to set the log level to be used during the startup of Maximo Manage

When there is an issue during application startup you cannot change the log level in order to determine the root cause. It should be possible to set the log level to be used during application startup. If the startup failed completely, you could s...
3 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Under review

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

Deactivate classifications for new work order records

We would like to deactivate some deprecated classifications used on either workorder, asset, locations, etc and avoid reporting new records using those classfications. I mean these classifications need to be available for searching but will not be...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

Add Ability to Invoke Automation Script During Admin Mode Processing

Maximo has always had limited Admin Mode support when dealing with clusters. IBM Support even recommends to shut down all JVMs but one. In 7.6.1.1 this was enhanced a step further where Maximo can even stop and start the other JVMs inside of WebSp...
about 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Planned for future release

Optimization of EAR rebuild & redeploy to reduce Maximo production Downtime

The objective is to find a way to externalize custom java code and specific properties (contained in the maximo/applications/maximo/properties folder) to have in the EAR file only the Maximo standard code and in the second part only properties and...
over 8 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under 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

Allow MAXADMIN users to edit all saved queries

Allow users in the MAXADMIN security group to be able to change queries in Maximo/Tivoli regardless of the owner/creator of the query.
almost 9 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 6

Add a "Cancel" status for Inspection results.

If for some reason an Inspection is not able to be completed, it remains in In Progress forever. The only way for an Inspection result to go from In Progress to Completed is if all the required questions are answered. If that is not possible, the ...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Functionality already exists

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...
9 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration