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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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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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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...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future 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.
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration

Allow Condition Expression Manager in Workflow

Currently in Workflow all condition nodes allow a SQL expression to be used.However if used repeatedly across different workflows or frequently changed then revised versions of workflow need to be created and deployed each time.Allow conditions no...
about 7 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

Import Export Tries to Process Excel File

Enhancement request is needed to improve the validation. See also PMR TS010289537 In short term would improving this error message add value (via a defect) BMXAA5804E - Import of data in file BulkInvoiceTesting_NOTCSVFILE.xlsx was unsuccessful....
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

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

Safety roll down from Parent to child locations

Safety like Hazards/Precautions roll down from Parent Location to child location would be very useful. It would be good to have ‘Safety Roll Down’ to child Locations from Parent Locations. Provides a flexible option for business to roll down the ‘...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Future consideration

Maximo Manage System Property to set the log level to be used during the startup of Maximo Manage

When there is an issue during application startup you cannot change the log level in order to determine the root cause. It should be possible to set the log level to be used during application startup. If the startup failed completely, you could s...
9 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

Adding Rich Text to Inspection Questions

The ability to use HTML in inspection questions or the ability to use bullet point lists and superscript/subscript would be a good addition.
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 8 Planned for future release

Work Queue Manager - Maintain Filtering and Sort after you return having navigated to a record

The Work Queue provides a list of records which you can filter and sort. But when you navigate to an application, for example Work Order Tracking and when you use the breadcrumb or return to the work queue, the filtering and sorting is lost, and y...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 2 Future consideration

Support function-based indexes

It would be helpful if Maximo could support function based-indexes. Function based indexes are OOB in databases and are an easy way to pre-compute data for faster performance. https://oracle-base.com/articles/8i/function-based-indexes https://use-...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration