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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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Prevent forward-dating status changes

MAM 7.6.1.2 and Anywhere 7.6.4: In the Change Status window, the Status Date field is editable . Screenshot: https://i.stack.imgur.com/3fhd7.png I understand why status changes might need to be back-dated . But I can't think of any scenarios where...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Not under consideration

WO completed by mistake: Need to cancel

Occasionally, WOs get completed by mistake. The user needs to cancel the WO, since it is invalid. Currently, we can't cancel completed WOs in Maximo. It would be helpful IBM could enhance Maximo so that users can cancel completed WOs. Related post...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

WOTRACK: Batch-assign WOs to a labor (ASSIGNMENT tab/table)

Scenario: We have multiple WOs for the assets in a given area. The WOs are a one-offs, so we don't have a JP or a route for them. We want to batch-assign the WOs to a labor (without doing manual data entry for each WO, and without creating a JP or...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Batch-apply a JP to WOs

I have queried multiple WOs in the WOTRACK list view (where the classification=POTHOLE). I want to batch-apply a job plan to those WOs. The JP contains: Planned Labor: Roads Asphalt Crew Tasks Priority Currently, there isn't an OOB action to batch...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Not under consideration

Anywhere map identify: Disable auto-pan & pulse

In Anywhere Work Technician 7.6.4, if I identify(tap) on a feature in the map, the map will: Automatically pan to the first vertex of the feature (for polygons and lines). Pulse a blue circle at that vertex. Our users are finding this behavi...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Spatial / Spatial 0 Not under consideration

Labor actuals are editable in Maximo desktop, but not in Anywhere

Anywhere Work Technician 7.6.4 (Android): My organization has changed the default labor actuals setting so that inside labor transactions don't get automatically approved: Changing Labor hours in the Actuals > Labor tab in Work Order Tracking R...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Mobile 2 Not under consideration

List View: Clear the WHERE clause & clear the resultset (without selecting records)

Scenario: A user is looking for WOs that meet certain criteria, but their default & saved queries don't fit what the user looking for. So the user runs the 'All Records' query, which selects all columns & rows from the WORKORDER table. The...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Make status field more visible

MAM 7.6.1.2: I've noticed that users often don't realize that records in Maximo have statuses that aren't open/active. This causes a lot of confusion. Would IBM be able to make status fields more visible?
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Not under consideration

Prevent closing WO with open PR (optional setting)

It would be helpful if there were an optional setting that would prevent closing a WO if the WO has an open PR. We have an OOB setting for something similar -- it's for POs (not PRs): Prevent Users From Closing Work Orders With Open PO It would be...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Converting task to child WO: WOCLASS remains as 'ACTIVITY' (incorrect)

Summary:Converting task to child WO: WOCLASS remains as 'ACTIVITY' (incorrect) Details:The IBM docs say: "You can easily convert any task to a child work order with tasks of its own." https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/work-order-operations-are-now...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration