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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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Ad-hoc report text fields: Align-left instead of align-right (optional setting)

Maximo aligns ad-hoc report text fields to the right, instead of to the left. Screenshot: https://i.stack.imgur.com/KrbtZ.png That's different from most software platforms. Other programs like Excel, MS Access, and SQL clients align text to the le...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Not under consideration

BIRT Support for converting base64 images pasted into Task LD field to print to pdf

Maximo allows images to be pasted into Job Plan Task Long Description field, but when you attempt to print to pdf, the images aren't output. The IBM method is to Attach the images using the "Insert Image" URL link feature. While this works, it def...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Application XML: List of possible XML properties

It would be helpful if IBM could publish a list of properties that are available for application XML. For example, how would we find out about table control properties like "collapsewhenempty"? There doesn't seem to be any documentation on the pro...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Launch in context - Pass the Maximo where clause value

Currently you can pass a value through the launch in context. Can we add the ability to receive the full where clause as well.
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 3 Not under consideration

Service Receipts does not populate inspection completion time as transaction date

The Service Receipts does not populate inspection completion time as the transaction date. Please find attached document for replication steps.
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Not under consideration

Create view without an outage

Related: Audit tables don't require outage, but custom table does? It's possible to create audit tables without needing admin mode. If that's the case, then why would we need admin mode to create a custom view? The two scenarios seem similar. I wo...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 3 Not under consideration

Easier db config changes in clustered environments

It would be helpful if non-WebShpere admins could make db config changes in clustered environments. In other words, add a field to a table in a clustered environment -- and do it all from within the UI.
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 5 Not under consideration

Add to "Attachments" the date it was attached and also the user ID of the user who attached it. Please, display the attachments in date order - newest first.

Add to "Attachments" the date it was attached and also the user ID of the user who attached it. Please, display the attachments in date order - newest first. Under the "View Attachments" dialog, add 2 columns:1. Date/Time of the attachment 2. User...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Do you offer a normalized METERREADING fact table?

The in situ METERREADING fact table appears to be de-normalized and as such may accidentally trigger data hazards such as: Fluidity; Ageing; Biasing; Falsification /Misinformation; Disassociation; Masking; Volume; and/or Interpretation. (And/or in...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Control the order that automation scripts get fired

Scenario: If there are multiple automation scripts that get triggered by a record save: There is no way to predict/control the order of script execution: The first time you save the WO the scripts could fire like this: Script1, Script2, Script3 ...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Not under consideration