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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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Duplicate Work Order function does not pick Job Plan with Status = Active

When user tries to duplicate the work order and if the job plan is revised then Maximo should take the latest version of the job plan which is in ACTIVE for the duplicated work order so that end user no need to go again and update the latest job p...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration

Calibration Forward trace - delivered report

Maximo calibration users at the last McSIG session asked for a Forward Trace Report. A number of the participants at the McSIG session have an interest in being able to trace standards used during a calibration all the way back to NIST. Essentiall...
over 12 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Create Communication option should be available in Request for Quotations application

Create Communication option is a standard option that is available in various Maximo applications (for example Service Requests, Work Order, Purchase Order etc). However, this option is not available in Requests for Quotations application. This is...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Not under consideration

Add downtime reporting to Locations

Users need the ability to track downtime for a functional system in addition to individual assets. The concept of functional locations allows asset management personnel to use Maximo locations to serve as functional nodes in processes, since downt...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration

Possible to have Maximo name the PDF of PO report with the PO number

we have received requests if it is possible that the PDF of POs are automatically named with the PO-number? Currently our users create PDFs through the preview function of a report and then either Print report or Export report button to create PDF...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Not under consideration

Ability to close RFQs that have no been fully awarded

Currently the only way to close RFQs is to award all of the lines to POs. This prevents the closure of RFQs that are not fully awarded and means they don't get put to history. Our client would like the ability to close RFQs that are not fully awar...
almost 9 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 2 Not under consideration

Translations for communication template accessible through ecalation are not reflected.

For all those communication template which are accessible through escalations, translations are not directly reflected through running query into l_commtemplate (language table for communication template) table.
almost 7 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic Dates in Reports

Add dynamic date functionality for scheduled reports or allow the user info for the person scheduling the report to be passed when a report is scheduled so I can use the FROM_TZ command in a scheduled job to determine the scheduler's timezone and ...
over 9 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

Delete Assets to be able to Reuse Asset Numbers

We often receive invoices where the price of the asset is different than what the asset was received at. In version 6, we were able to return the asset, delete it and re-receive it using the same number. In version 7.6.1, we get an error when tryi...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 3 Not under consideration

Updates to Classifications should update existing linked Job Plan records

In the Job Plans application, updates to classification attributes on the related Classification record are not updated on existing Job Plans that utilize that classification. Problem The problem exists with the utilization of Classifications in t...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration