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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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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...
4 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Under review

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...
6 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 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...
9 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration

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...
over 11 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 4 Not under consideration

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...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 4 Not under consideration

Dynamically adjust the Columns in the Application list tab

Users are requesting to change the columns according to their need in the application list tab. we are having the security restriction to hide and show, but it is not full filling the users need.
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration

Email notification format for automatic PM generation

When the mxe.wogen.FormatCronTaskEmail system property is set to true, the e-mail notifications for the automatic PM generation appear with the messages grouped in two groups: "PMs with problems" and "PMs that generated successfully". However, inc...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Future consideration

Utilise AI technology to help identify duplicate work orders at the start of the process when creating a work order or service request

Companies like ours all have the same issues around duplication of work orders. The current process is that a user has to add lots of data to a work order before then saving at which time the duplication check kicks in. What would be better would ...
about 2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Under review

Life Sciences requirement: Enhance End of Calendar Month Due Date Calculation

Calculating work order due date as an end of calendar month supports business requirements, however a system-wide flag (mxe.pm.enforceMaximumDayOfMonthContinuity) does not provide needed flexibility. Ability to manage this functionality at a site ...
about 2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Under review

Count Books - Selection Items when Selection Type is ITEM should have a Go To Menu to navigate to Inventory and Stocked Tools

Finding the correct item sometimes requires you to navigate to the core application (Inventory or Stocked Tools), find the item using the Advanced Search and returning with the value back to the originating application. The Selection Items field o...
6 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Future consideration