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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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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.

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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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In Service Requests Role-Based application of Maximo 7.6.1.2, when an attachment present in a service Request is canceled the UNDO popup option comes for a couple of seconds and then vanishes, and the attachment gets deleted without any confirmation.

The undo confirmation popup is only visible for a couple of seconds, as a result there are high chances of it getting missed by the user. If a user clicks on the delete icon by mistake and misses on clicking the undo button the attachment is autom...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Add Topology Viewer in Maximo AM

Volkswagen / Germany needs the Topology Viewer functionality back again, It was available under previous Maximo versions (<= 7.6.0.5), but is gone with higher FPs.
over 6 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Not able to receive remaining items againt the PO line having GL account expired and not able to approve the PO

We are not able to receive remaining item quantity against PO after the GL account on that particular line was expired/deactivated .Some of the items were received when the GL was active.Maximo does not allow to approve PO if it has some other lin...
over 6 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 2 Not under consideration

Communication Templates for Work Centers

There is a need for a communication template to be created in the Workcenter's module to provide notifications /emails /documents to users and service contractors when Workcenter forms have been completed. Having a communication template developed...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration

Ability to automatically refresh startcenter resultset and kpi portlets

Multiple customers have requested the functionality to automatically refresh certain startcenter resultset and kpi portlets. This allows them to use the startcenter as a dashboard. A workaround for a general refresh of the page is available but th...
about 12 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

list download issue

When downloading a list from the work order application, HTML tags appear in excel. Hopefully the HTML tag doesn't appear.
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Add a property or control to constrain/control the upload of large image files in Maximo rich text fields

It is possible to break the ability of the Maximo / TPAE front-end to realistically display an image in a rich text long description field if the image is too large. For example, download file https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/tiff/PIA23867.tif Op...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Not under consideration

Update Service Requests (SR) tickets Resolution Date

When utilizing a Service Request (SR) ticket and setting the record to the 'RESOLVED' status, Maximo will automatically set the ACTUALFINISH to the date/time the record status is changed to 'RESOLVED'. If the ticket is re-activated, for example th...
over 5 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Service Desk 3 Not under consideration

Warehouse Inventory Item to Item Transfer

Often in Asset Intensive operations, materials may be duplicated within the item catalog accidentally in 2 specific scenarios: 1) Accidentally be mis-identified at receipt and received as the incorrect item and not identified until a cycle count s...
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

Validate Return transactions from workorder

Users that can return inventory from workorders are able to drastically impact the value and the balances of our store by returning items from a workorder that were never actually added and can well exceed the actual cost of the workorder. Validat...
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration