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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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Populating Target Start Date for Meter Based PM Work Orders

The Target Start and Finish dates on a Work Order does not incorporate lead time on work order creation from a meter based PM.
over 9 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 3 Future consideration

Eliminate the requirement to press the route workflow button again after an Interaction Node to end the WF

After routing a WF whenever an Interaction Node is encountered (i.e. Select Owner) the WF stops and the user has to to press the route workflow button again to finish the WF.
about 12 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 3 Future consideration

Allow common asset meter history across sites

System allows assets to be moved between the sites, but asset meter history remains in the original site. This created a problem for preventive maintenance as there is no meter history in the new site and preventive maintenance is skipped. In addi...
over 7 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

Keeping DB Backup for extended period of time (beyond 1 month) automatically.

This is an Ask from our client. It is useful for the below reason: 1. Investigate any data issue by restoring the older backup, if it is not traceable when it was introduced. 2. Restore lower environment with older backup (say 6 month old). 3. Bui...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Future consideration

PlusCDueDate calcluation to be corrected

Current calculation for PlusCDueDate is 1. Retrieves all WOs where WorkOrder.AssetNum = ToolTrans.RotAssetNum (note: NOT ToolTrans.AssetNum) WorkOrder.Status != ‘CLOSED', 'COMPLETED', or ‘CANCELED' WorkOrder.WorkType = ‘CAL' or a synonym of ‘CA...
over 6 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration

Master PMs - should be able to standardize all the fields in a PM

We create a master template to be able to standardize and speed up the process. However, not all the fields in a PM are available on the Master PM, so each PM still requires a fair amount of editing before making active. For example, the 3 frequen...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Add as Spare Part to Asset Template

There's currently a checkbox in Item Master to add a part to the Asset's Spare Parts list when issued to a Work Order w/ an Asset. However, we are trying to manage our Assets' Spare Parts list via Asset Templates. It would make more sense that whe...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Inventory Re-ordering enhancement

Recently our business users approached us that they'd like to exclude certain inventory condition codes from total inventory balance calculations so re-ordering can be triggered earlier. It will be nice if Maximo Re-ordering Cron task can provide ...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Future consideration

How to register Problem-Cause-Remedy on a WO having multiple Assets

Being the contractor's technician or the Asset Operation Manager, I need to be able to report different sets of Problem-Cause-Remedy on assets on my multi-asset WOs, so that I can ensure that later defect analysis will be based on valid data and d...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Enhancement to the workflow admin tool

Enhancement to the workflow admin tool in Maximo, so that MaxAdmin better can support end users As an MaxAdmin, I need to have some extra functionality added into the Workflow Admin app, so that I can see which user a workflow is assigned to as we...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Workflow 0 Future consideration