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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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Allow multiple Start Centers per Security Group

When setting up a security group, only one Start Center is allowed per group. However, sometimes an extra Start Center is needed for a set of users, which then requires an extra security group to be created just for the purpose of giving an additi...
almost 8 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 5 Not under consideration

Updates from Classification are reflected on Asset Templates

Product: Maximo Asset Management Subcomponent: Asset Templates Operating system: All Description: When classifications are updated on the specifications tab the associated asset templates should be updated. For example, when adding an attribute to...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Data replication solution for remote/offshore customers

The industry in general needs the IBM team to look at a rule-based replication solution for customers with remote/offshore installations. Currently, commercially available solutions are untested for MAS8. Without a proven replication solution, cus...
10 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Future consideration

Queue SMTP Emails when SMTP Server is Unavailable

There are various scenarios in Maximo where email is sent explicitly from the various MXServer.sendEmail() methods. For example, the PM WOGEN cron task. If the email fails to send to the SMTP server (such as the SMTP server is down) it's gone fore...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Planned for future release

include server, username, date/time in error dialog/pop-up

When a user gets an error that they can work around but they want to report to administrators, they often include a screenshot of the error in the email or support ticket. The problem is that a lot of questions the administrator will ask during tr...
almost 5 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Planned for future release

Include support for Internet Explorer 10 and 11 for Maximo BIRT reporting

Include support for Internet Explorer 10 and 11 for Maximo BIRT reporting.Currently the Maximo platform compatibility does not indicate that Maximo BIRT is compatible with IE 10 and 11. This creates uncertainty for clients who wish to upgrade thei...
over 10 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 5 Not under consideration

Ability to print the pdf copy of the completed Inspection form

Ability to generate PDF report of the Inspection form and results which can be attached to the Work Order as a linked document.Would like to have the same look and feel like the inspection form, also would like to trigger the pdf report from the W...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 6 Future consideration

Prevent deleting attributes with launch points, or drop launch points when attributes are dropped

Maximo allows administrators and developers to drop custom attributes which have Automation Script Launch Points registered against them -- without even giving a warning. Thus, Maximo can be left with a referential integrity problem, and Integrity...
over 7 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Future consideration

Replace the MAXDEMO database

It would be helpful if IBM could invest in a new MAXDEMO database where the data has actually passed through the MBO business logic and dates are not 30 years old. The existing MAXDEMO data isn't very useful because the data is messy. The demo dat...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 5 Future consideration

Guest Accounts Provisioning in MAS - For external "users" Service Request Creation

Several of our clients are on MAS which does not currently support guest accounts. The reasoning behind it is for them to be able to support the ability to log a Service Request in Maximo for our clients' technicians to inspect or execute work. Th...
7 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Planned for future release