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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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Create custom table or view object without db config

We can enable(create) audit tables without needing a db config outage. If that's the case, then why do we need db config to create a custom table/view? Aren't the two scenarios similar? I would think a custom table/view would be low risk. It seems...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Create custom dialogs via Application Designer UI

Rumor has it that Control Desk has a way to create custom dialogs from the UI in Application Designer. Can we get that functionality in core Maximo too? It would be a lot easier to create dialogs in Application Designer, compared to doing it in XM...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Delete custom dialog via Application Designer UI

I have a custom dialog in the Classifications application that I created manually in ASSETCAT.XML (via XML export-->Notepad-->XML import). Screenshot: https://i.stack.imgur.com/67plY.png As mentioned, I did need to create that dialog via XML...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Not under consideration

Conditional lookup in Advanced Search

I have two custom fields in ASSET: - ZONE (1, 2, 3, 4) - SUBZONE (1-1, 1-2, 1-3, 2-1, ...) In the Asset Advanced Search window, I want the SUBZONE field to have a conditional lookup: - If ZONE = 1 , then lookup = 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, ... Currently, it's...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Not under consideration

more than one mail SMTP server to send notifications and ability to choose the configured server in communication templates

Some customers require using different SMTP servers with different access configuration and credentials for different proposes. It would be nice to have more than one SMTP servers and choose them in Communication Templates.
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Condition on actions in action groups

Could IBM add a condition field to actions in action groups? That would give us greater control over if/when an action is used in an escalation.
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Not under consideration

Suddenly we are seeing ROUTE STOP order is changed

Hi Team, We are suddenly seeing issue that route stop order is changed, earlier it used to be below order When this Route is applied to a Work Order, the Route Stops will become: Child Work Orders Entries in the Work Order's Multi Asset, Location ...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration

Action to delete records

It would be helpful if there were a Maximo Action that could be used to delete records. Would honor Maximo business rules. Would be used by an escalation; the condition in the escalation would be used to determine what records to delete. Would be ...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Option to not close / comp workorders when assignments are complete

RIght now if all the Assignments for a workorders are changed to COMP, the workorder also automatically changes to COMP or CLOSED depending on which option you set. This is very undesirable because just because the assignments are done doesn't mea...
over 9 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

Allow administrators to enter free-form expressions in ad-hoc reports

Currently, there are limitations regarding ad-hoc report expressions: Expressions (SQL functions) are limited to the functions in the Expression Library (configurable). The fields that are available to expressions can only by number fields, not te...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration