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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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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

Text entry fields in Inspection Forms and Results should support text wrapping.

This feature would allow text to automatically move to the next line when it reaches the end of the text box, making it easier to read and manage longer entries.
4 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Custom servernames in MAS

The mxserver names are the same for all the Manage servers by default. Unfortunately, it is not possible to set mxe.servername to the hostname of the pod. If mxe.servername is specified for the bundle, the servers within a bundle have the same nam...
4 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under 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

Provide a status field to indicate old values not available to select by users

Sometimes an organisation wishes to update the domain values. Existing (old) domain values against work orders should be retained for historical and referential purposes, but they should not be available for new work orders etc. A status field wou...
2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Add a status field to failure codes

Sometimes an organisation wishes to update the failure codes (problem, cause and remedy) values. Existing (old) failure codes against work orders should be retained for historical and referential purposes, but they should not be available for new ...
2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Add a Workflow Assignment card to the Operational Dashboard

If you create a new Operational Dashboard there is no ability to add a Workflow Assignment card to it; there is no workflow assignment card in the card gallery. This is an issue as if the Maintenance Manager operational dashboard is deleted you ca...

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

In the Service Request application, filter out history records by default as in Work Order Tracking

In the Service Request application, when a user goes into the application and presses the Enter key, all SRs in the system are retrieved, both active and closed/historical. This application has a History? flag in the More Search Fields, but it is ...
4 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Service Desk 0 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