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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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OSLC Object Passback Token

When creating new records (in particular child records) using autokeys, if multiple children are difficult to identify after creation. For example: POST /maximo/oslc/os/someOS { "description":"a Root object", "child":[{"description":"child 1"},{"d...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 1 Future consideration

Standard application for making REST API calls to external applications like SAP

Currently making API Calls to Maximo is very simple. You set up an object structure and you can immediately make API calls to Max However the opposite is not so simple. If you want to make an API call to an outside application like SAP, there is n...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 1 Not under consideration

Provide an XLSX export for BIRT reports that does not break into multiple tabs.

Many customers want to export BIRT reports to XLSX. Unfortunately the current xlsx export option places the output across multiple tabs. Please provide a mechanism to turn this off.
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration

Work Orders (RBA) - Log Notes on a work order should show the class and record that created the log note and to be able to filter by that record.

A work order can be created from an originating service request, the log notes from the SR can be seen from the work order. A work order can create multiple follow-up work orders, the log notes from those follow-up work orders are also visible on ...
4 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Under review

Work Orders (RBA) - When a work order has an owner group, the selection of an owner should be filtered for the current owner group but with the ability to change to an owner belonging to a different owner group

On the Work Orders role-based application the changing of owner and owner group should align with the way it works in Work Order and Ticket based applications. If the current owner group is SECURITY, then when you look to select an Owner for the w...
4 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Not under consideration

Classification status (inactive/active)

I like to set INACTIV and ACTIVE status for different classifications.
over 5 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Planned for future release

Include whereclause and parameters in report usage log table

Trackng down the cause of long running reports is one of the most painful tasks in Maximo. It would be extremely helpful if the whereclause being passed into the report was documented in the reportusage log. (It's currently captured temporarily in...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Reporting 0 Future consideration

The group and users to be case adherent in Manage

By default Security groups from LDAP/Active Directory are added as lowercase group name in MAS is by design. Due to this, it will always be passed to Manage in lowercase even though they are in uppercase in LDAP/Active Directory. Which is causing ...
12 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Planned for future release

Harmonization of asset template and rotating item functionality for asset creation

At the moment with partial overlapping functionality associated with assets created from Rotating Items and Asset Template. With the current design of the system, we will be Creating assets from rotating items and applying asset templates to apply...
12 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Work Order (RBA) - Signature setting to be able to modify custom public views including changing the owner

Custom Public Views can only be modified by the person who created the view. When someone leaves, you want to be able to review custom public views and check that the person leaving doesn't own any, if they do then to be able to change the ownersh...
4 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration