Skip to Main Content
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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

Pinned ideas

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)

Showing 446

Disable: Asset gets auto-populated if location has single asset

It would be helpful if there were a system setting that could be used to disable the following functionality: In a WO, the asset gets auto-populated if the location only has a single asset A lot of organizations don't want that functionality. I th...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Maximo views: Increase SQL FROM clause character limit

When creating a view object in Maximo db config: The view's FROM clause can only have 1000 characters. BMXAA4049E 1000 characters might seem like a lot, but in fact, many queries have more than 1000 characters in the FROM clause, especially if the...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

MAS Manage currently configured and allows to send logs to S3 storage. Many customers choose Azure to host their MAS system. Similar setup and configuration needs to be developed to support Azure based storage.

This will be useful for all customers who choose Azure to host their MAS Mange system.
6 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Implement canApprove() method in purchasing record Status Handlers

When implementing workflow for purchasing records (PR, PO, Invoice) it would be very useful to have a single method that contained all of the logic for verifying that the record is ready for approval. In some record types in Maximo, there is a can...
about 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

Ability to add an image to the inspection form itself (Ex. Provide a picture to person performing inspection) within Manage Inspection Forms

Within new Inspection work center, if added to the form, it could provide useful information to the person actually performing the inspection later.
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Future consideration

Requirement is that the Contract Analyst/Buyer field (PO.PURCHASEAGENT) be editable in all statuses except CAN, CLOSE or REVISE.

Right now, the procurement folks when there is a change in staff, they have to do a formal revision (admin type of amendment) to change one field. Procurement are the owners of the application and should therefore, have the ability to change the u...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration

Add width control to app designer table column

When configuring a table in application designer, often the width of a column needs to be extended to allow full visibility of the data. There is no option on the table column properties for this, however exporting the XML and adding a width="xx" ...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

VET Provide functionality to highlight slow crontasks in real time

Amend the crontask instance definition so it includes:- A new attribute "runtimeThres" which defines how the threshold in milliseconds- Amend the crontask history object so it includes:- A flag to indicate if the crontask took longer than the thre...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

Re-implement Workflow Designer

The current state of the Workflow designer could be improved in several dimensions. The flow charting design tool is erratic and difficult to use, arbitrarily redrawing the canvas (and not in a particularly usable manner). The actual objects do no...
about 6 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration

PMs should have full ROUTE support implemented

PROBLEM:Certain Route based PMs have no History data even though the Work Orders are being generated. This is possibly happening from the Route not passing on any asset or location values to the history table per this IBM KB DOC: https://www.ibm.c...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration