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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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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

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

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

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

Need ability to ORDER BY in the KPI List portlet - Operational Dashboard

Most every portlet in the start centers offers an order by column. KPI List does not. This forces the users to add numbers to their queries to make it sort right.
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 3 Future 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

Add the Asset.FailureClass (Failure Code) to the Asset Template Application

Failure code is used extensionally in Asset Managment, it needs to be added to the Asset Template application for data efficiency.
4 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

SERVICEABILITY - Filter Synchronous Message tracking ability (monitoring in MAS)

Asyncrhonous Message tracking can be activated indepenendly via Publish Channel/ Enterprise Services. For Synchronous Message tracking specifically rest, there is no filtering and all is done via the System property mxe.int.trackrestrequests. In M...
4 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 1 Under review

Update attachments DocLinks on the Manage database.

As part of the database update when migrating data from Maximo 7.6 to Mas 8,Update the doclinks table/urls column to match the new MAS 8 architecture.
6 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

Warning on Job Plans and Work Order Tracking that Planned Labor has mixed references to both tasks and work order

When planning labor on a work order you should either plan against the work order by leaving the task field blank, or you should plan at the task level by always entering a task. Having a mix of the two on the same work order is still valid but mo...
2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration