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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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Move Parent Asset to new Location but Leave Children that have other Location

It is allowed to change location on Child Assets in an Asset Assembly.This can be usefull to have more detailed location information for these (grand)children.However when moving the Top Asset all Children will inherit the new Location. Organizati...
9 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future 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...
3 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Extended drilldown – add possibilty to configure classstructure into it / show tree of assets

Problem The extended drilldown is a good tool to get a hierarchical overview about data. But it has limited options to show information in tree do easily navigate & identify different data. Additionally, when extended drilldown is opened in ap...
6 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 2 Not under consideration

Allow user to sort the queries alphabetically.

Currently, for each application Maximo shows a list of queries on left side under Available Queries section, based on the value set for system property -mxe.webclient.maxNavbarQueryLimit. These queries displayed do not have any sort applied, also,...
about 6 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 4 Planned for future release

7.6.0.9 - WC 7.6.0.3 - Picture size in Inpection Forms

We would like to have an option to set "default" sizes on the attachments on inspection app. We would like to set one of the option from (Actual Size , Large , Medium and Small) list.
almost 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

Integrating BIM with Maximo

We have a solution for one of our projects to integrate Maximo with BIM model. So, the normal way is to use Revit Model with COBie sheet to achieve custom implementation but unfortunately our client doesn't need to work with COBie sheet. Why we do...
3 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Needs more information

Receiving - Add the ability during receiving to attach the packing slip document to the receipt (MATRECTRANS) record - It should also be added to the Maximo Mobile Inventory Receiving

When receiving a set of items, it should be possible to scan a document and associate it with the receipt records and to then to view those attachments from the appropriate MATRECTRANS records. This is best achieved by attaching the packing slip t...
3 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Future consideration

Ability to 'unobsolete' an item status at both 'INVENTORY' and 'ITEM' level

Occasionally we have obsoleted items because of low usage, historical reasons or whatever. Then the inventory team get a request to change the status back from OBSOLETE back to ACTIVE. Currently this does not work but wanting to know if its possib...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration

Allow length control of multi-part text boxes

When configuring an application, the multi-part textbox if often the most useful tool to show a related value from a field. However, often one or both of these values are longer than the field. Please add 2 length attributes to the multi-part text...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Support Alternate Storage Locations for Message Tracking

Message tracking has existed for a while to support tracking SOAP based requests. In newer versions options were provided for tracking REST based requests. For troubleshooting API requests, this data can be extremely useful in determining what was...
almost 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 0 Future consideration