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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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Ability to send a notification before an APIKEY expires

In a recent demonstration of Manage to Siemens Energy the question was asked if an APIKEY in Maximo can be set to expire in, say, 90 days. The answer is yes. The follow up question was how do you notify a sys admin that a key is about to expire. T...
3 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Functionality already exists

Aligning Reorder Notice Email with User's Local Time

The date in the reorder notice email is currently based on the server's time zone (UTC). However, the reorder notice email in Maximo should reflect the user's local time instead of the server's time. This adjustment would ensure better alignment w...
3 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Spare Part Auto Add should not add a part when the issue type is 'RETURN'

Spare Part Auto Add function appears to add parts even when the issue type is 'RETURN' and it should not. When issue is errant and someone goes to fix the asset spare part manually, but someone else later returns the part, the RETURN transaction w...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Future consideration

We are not seeing any option to make the bulk of users Inactive if they are not logged into Maximo for a longer period of time.

Hi Team, We are trying to check on option on how we can Inactivate users who are not logged into the Maximo system for a certain period of time. Please share your thoughts/Inputs if there is any such option. Thanks & regards,Sandeep
3 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Planned for future release

Query admin tool is needed

Query administration can be troublesome when trying to do remote support as well as ensuring decent house cleaning. Hence, having a Query admin tool is a need. As an MaxAdmin, I need to have a Query Admin app, so that I can do administration on us...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Future consideration

Add Setting to have the Reorder process for Direct Material / Services to create separate Purchase Requisitions for different Work Orders

To automate administrative tasks we are leveraging the Reorder process (and the Reorder Cron Task) to generate our Purchase Requisitions. There is a very common use case though where Multiple WOs are being planned, or approved within the same time...
11 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Future consideration

Display users Default Insert Site along Banner

It would be nice if there was a setting, System Property that would display a Users Default Insert Site on the Manage Banner versus having a user to check their Default Information for their profile. Many organizations use Maximo/Manage multi site...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under 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...
about 8 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Future consideration

Attachment Drag n Drop Functionality

In the current IBM MAS/Maximo application, we have quite old attachment function by clicking on Attachment button it’s open new window to locate and add the documents. My idea is to simply drag one or more files from your computer to the applicati...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 4 Not under consideration

"Super" PM Forecast view - ALL PMs for given Assets, Locations / Routes in sequence with costs by categories and detailed rows for required resources

Suggested by Clifton at Gulfstream - would like an easier way to audit and plan future PMs, particularly for Material (and tooling?) requirements planning. Give the option for the user to enter a date range / number of days for given assets / loca...
6 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Reporting 0 Future consideration