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 468

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...
over 6 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration

Requesting support for AWS Oracle RDS

To reduce Maximo sustainment cost and take benefits from cloud services.
7 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

SERVICEABILITY - Configure/ Disable PodMonitor via Manage application

PodMonitors are created by default in MAS. For Saas the configuration is by default and clients are not able to change the specs for example interval of monitoring Example: podMetricsEndpoints: - interval: 30s scheme: https targetPort: 9444 tlsCon...
7 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 1 Future consideration

Maximo Manage - Attachment and Log properties related to S3 should use credentials defined in ObjectStorageCfg at suite level or have consistency of S3 usage across Apps and adhere to use Secret instead of sensitive properties at CR level

How Maximo Visual Inspection uses ObjectStorageCfg Maximo Visual Inspection lets user defining bucket name and leaves the responsibility of defining access key, secret key, endpoint to ObjectStorageCfg objectStorageBucketNames: myWorkSpace: mvi-in...
7 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Allow existing contracts to be associated to a new Master Contract

Business Requirements Within an organization, as some purchasing and contracts shift from a site or branch to global procurement, it becomes necessary to bring various existing contracts under one master contract that can be managed globally. Use ...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Future consideration

Switch to make Script accessible via API

This is mainly a security benefit. At the moment you can invoke every Script via /maximo/oslc/script/<ScriptName> as long as you are authorized. After years of development in our system, we are not sure every script knows about this possibil...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 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

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...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration

Job Plan Material Costing Logic

When creating job plans, and planned materials are added, we've observed the following:1) If Direct Issue is left unchecked, and storeroom not filled in, the unit cost is zero2) If Storeroom if filled in, then unit cost is populated per the storer...
7 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Prevent Maximo from Allowing Users to Delete PMs that Generated Work Orders

Maximo allows users to delete PMs even if utilized on Work Orders (as long as they are history Work Orders). Enabling this causes referential integrity issues because the PMNUM field is still stored on the history Work Orders and users reviewing t...
over 10 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration