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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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Disable/Hide "Take a Tour" button on Start Center Header or Option to configure this for own Training Materials.

There should be an Option to Disable/Hide "Take a Tour" button on Start Center Header or an option to configure this for own Training Materials, like short videos or Handcards.
8 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Planned for future release

Work order description to come from the job plan when it's generated from a PM

Whenever a work order is generated from a PM there are two scenarios from where the resulting work order description will come from. 1. From the PM, if the PM has a description 2. From the Job Plan, if the PM has no description. The problem is tha...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 3 Planned for future release

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

Printing Calibration Decals / Inventory Barcodes

Maximo out of box functionality needed to support label printing for Asset Calibration expiration dates / inventory information for cycle counting/issuing etc.
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Planned for future release

Create possibility to skip messages from Kafka topic

There is no option to clear the integration messages in the Kafka topic like traditional JMS queues. Kafka's proposal is to keep the message alive until the expiration date. So today the only option to clear the message from the topic is to set...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 2 Planned for future release

Better visibility needed for MAS User entitlement issues

I created a Self Service user at the MAS level, and granted the user Maxadmin access within Manage. The user is now able to use Manage without consuming any App Points. A warning is made visible to the administrator but only on when looking at the...
6 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Planned for future release

Preserve Meter Based PM Target Date Visibility After WO Generation

We propose preserving the next work order projections after the work order has been generated, and until that work order has been completed. In the PM application, Next Work Order Projections are cleared when meter-based PMs generate work orders. ...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Planned for future release

Alert on existing PMs when status changes on workorder to WAPPR

An alert is supposed to appear when you change the workorder status for which it exists a PM on the same location or asset that will be triggered in the coming days. The problem is that his alert doesn't work when we create the workorder or when w...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 3 Planned for future release

Usability issues between the new role based and classic applications causing key customer dissatisfaction and usability concerns

Support masthead, especially breadcrumbs from classic applications, in the mobile role based applications The Inspections application is a "mobile" application but is also the only way to execute inspections even in the web. When a user launches a...
3 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Planned for future release

Greater debugging capability for automation scripts

Please improve the automation script debugging capability.Currently these scripts can be hard to debug so providing additional information would be very helpful. A great start would be to:- provide the ability to dump the state of the script to a ...
over 7 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Planned for future release