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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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Suppress the rich text content of Rich Text Fields on export

Whenever we export records from a table that has rich text content, our external system may or may not be smart enough to process these rich text elements stored within the field. We need a way to configure this. For instance, to reproduce, export...
about 12 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 4 Not under 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...
over 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

Ability to configure Inspection Forms at Site level as well as at Org Level (Similar to Job Plan)

As we are aware that Inspection forms by design are intended to work in an ORG level only. We have a business requirement to be able to configure at Site level as well as Org level, in line with Job Plan functionality.
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Improve Config DB and UpdateDB Performance

We have a Maximo oracle database with approximately 80 million workorder records. CONFIGDB is slow when adding a custom field with a default value to large tables. For example adding a YORN field new_field to workorder table with default value 0, ...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 4 Future consideration

Life Sciences requirement: Ability to display visual plotting of past calibration readings

Metrology users would benefit from a visual plotting of past calibration readings for a given instrument in relation to upper and lower control limits.
10 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Functionality already exists

Open Source database support for MAS Manage

Since years, the French Government pushes its IT departments to go for Open Source solutions, it now begins to be a mandatory requirements and it starts by databases. https://www.guideinformatique.com/actualites-informatiques/le-gouvernement-franc...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 4 Not under consideration

Maximo Support For Oracle Partitioning

We have a global Oracle instance containing over 70 plants hosting our Maximo data. At times we are having performance issues and our DBAs have recommended that we partition our database to get better performance. Most reporting is still done on a...
over 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Planned for future release

Updating related records when linear asset lenght is changed

The linear asset could be connected to multiple records. For example, could be added on the Route, on the Preventive Maintenance, on the Work Orders ect. When the length of the linear asset (for example ENDMEASURE) is changed, the related record d...
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Linear 1 Not under consideration

Usability issues between the new role based and classic applications causing key customer dissatisfaction and usability concerns

Support masthead, especially breadcrumbs from classic applications, in the mobile role based applications The Inspections application is a "mobile" application but is also the only way to execute inspections even in the web. When a user launches a...
10 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Planned for future release

Remove inspection forms.

Our clients have many inspection forms that they want to remove but there is not option for that. They can Inactivate them, but it is not enough due the information still displaying in the inspection list and these forms are garbage.
6 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Future consideration