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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....
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...

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Associate Ownership of a Stream with a Team Area

At the moment, any user who creates a change set that is linked to an approved work item can deliver changes to a critical stream that should not be touched by anyone except for a small group of people. We've had users not pay attention to what st...
about 6 years ago in IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next / Feature 3 Not under consideration

Prevent tasks from being converted to WOs (optional setting)

This RFE was recently declined: Converting task to child WO: WOCLASS remains as 'ACTIVITY' (incorrect) It's my understanding that the devs at IBM agree that Maximo is designed incorrectly, but that it would take too much effort/change/risk to impl...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Not under consideration

Unable to set sections as mandatory for the Test Plan, Test Case and Test Suite

1) Without adding Test Env in Test Environment section to the Test Plan, user can not save Test Plan. validation message would be displayed. 2) If user enters any text into Precondition section then he/she may able to save Test case, other wise va...
about 6 years ago in IBM Engineering - Test Management / Usability 6 Not under consideration

Instead of hiding invalid statuses, make them available, but pop up an error/explanation

There is OOB functionality and configurable functionality in Maximo where certain statuses are hidden from the change status picklist. Example: If a WO has unapproved actuals, then the CLOSE status is hidden from the change status picklist. The fa...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 3 Not under consideration

Use classification drilldown/tree on custom persistent fields

It would be helpful if we could use the classification drilldown/tree on custom persistent fields. Currently, that's not possible because the Java class is hard-coded to only work in specific parts of Maximo (like the Advanced Search). We want to ...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

WOs filtered in the list view: select their child WOs too

Scenario: A user has filtered for some WOs in the WOTRACK list view. Some of the WOs are parent WOs, so the user wants to select any children of the WOs too. Currently, there isn't a way to "select the child WOs too" in WOTRACK. Could IBM consider...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Report Administration list view: Intuitive way to filter for ad-hoc reports

Report Administration: We need an intuitive way to filter for ad-hoc reports in the list view. Currently, there isn't a field in any of the report tables that clearly tells us if a report is ad-hoc or not. So we don't have any good options for con...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

TS006945294: Crew Type standard rate is not getting updated post the crew type creation and the craft standard rate is changing

Crew Type standard rate is not getting updated post the crew type creation and the craft standard rate is changing. Steps to replicate: 1-> Create a crew type and add more than one craft. 2-> Save the crew type and the standard rate populate...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 3 Not under consideration

Add a OOB default value to WORKORDER.ANYWHEREUNDO

When creating a non-imported view on WORKORDER via the Maximo UI (Database Configuration application): We get an error - BMXAA8772E - The Default Value field for object TESTWOVIEW attribute ANYWHEREUNDO requires a value. To avoid getting that erro...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Need to add Location field in the User Profile dialog of the Work Center

The environment NA TEST is upgraded to 7.6.1.2 . The environment NA QAT version is 7.6.1.1 is having the Location in the dialog which will display when we click on My Profile link from the Work Center page. Problem:- The environment NA TEST versio...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration