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IBM Sustainability Software - Ideas Portal


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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Start Center Color Alert Expressions need more flexibility

We have many requests for color alerts in the Start Center Portlets across our enterprise Maximo Asset Management. We are currently in Maximo 7.6.1.2. In the Start Center Configuration Tool, Color Alert tab, users would like to be able to use a ca...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Custom servernames in MAS

The mxserver names are the same for all the Manage servers by default. Unfortunately, it is not possible to set mxe.servername to the hostname of the pod. If mxe.servername is specified for the bundle, the servers within a bundle have the same nam...
3 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Enable Change Status to Work Without Save Permission to support Express Licenses

Staying compliant with licenses is nearly impossible because Express (whose permissions are inherited into the Limited license) entitles users to change status in any application. In order to change status, it requires save permission. There's no ...
over 7 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

Life Sciences requirement: Enhance Standard Deviation Calculation

Metrology users would benefit from an ability to calculate standard deviation for repeatability asset functions to ten decimal places.
8 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

Life Sciences requirement: End of Calendar Month Due Date Calculation

Calculating work order due date as an end of calendar month supports business requirements, however a system-wide flag (mxe.pm.enforceMaximumDayOfMonthContinuity) does not provide needed flexibility. Ability to manage this functionality at a site ...
10 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

All indexes to be added to audit tables through UI

In Maximo 7.x, administrators can set an attribute to have an audit history be enabled the "Audit Enabled" checkbox. When enabled, Maximo will create an audit table to track changes made to that attribute. The table that is created is then part of...
about 7 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

Life Sciences requirement: Ability to Enter Multiple Tolerances on Assets

Metrology users would benefit from an ability to define multiple tolerances for an instrument (asset) record.
9 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Life Sciences requirement: Ability to Enter Multiple Instrument Ranges to Assets

Metrology users would benefit from an ability to define multiple ranges for an instrument (asset) record.
9 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Length of ASSETMETER.NEWREADING to 18 is too short.

The length of ASSETMETER.NEWREADING is 18. Whereas the value to this field for a characteristic meter comes up from ALN domain. And by default when creating a new ALN domain the length comes up as 50(which is again editable and can have value of u...
about 2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Optimization of EAR rebuild & redeploy to reduce Maximo production Downtime

The objective is to find a way to externalize custom java code and specific properties (contained in the maximo/applications/maximo/properties folder) to have in the EAR file only the Maximo standard code and in the second part only properties and...
about 9 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration