Skip to Main Content
IBM Sustainability Software - Ideas Portal


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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

Pinned ideas

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)

Showing 947

Testing Maximo in Japanese environment after applying fixes

Maximo Administrator has to update the data of MAXOBJECT to Japanese each time because the resource file is not translated to Japanese.This untranslated data always causes the Manage module to fail to start after the fixes are applied. Users canno...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

To be able to create a rotating asset from an asset template

When populating inventory for a rotating item, you need to create the rotating assets. One obvious way of doing this is to use an asset template. After the assets are created, they can be moved into the storeroom.
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 3 Not under consideration

QR code integration with BIRT and Maximo

Customers are looking to generate QR code labels for Item and Assets using BIRT Report tool, as they are bulkily directly printing to printer and ease to get the labels, As OOB Maximo doesn't have QR Code inbuilt logic, customers are procuring 3rd...
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under 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

Visibility Into MAS License Usage Cron Task Results

The MASLICUSAGE cron task does a great job is calculating the license type required based on a user's Manage security. When a user is calculating as requiring a license type different than anticipated there is no visibility into the factors that c...
9 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Planned for future release

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

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...
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 1 Not under consideration

PRLINENUM in PRLINE for Direct Issue Item should remain in Synce with PRLINELINUM on WPITEM

REF: TS014987530 The Business Case would be that the Direct Issue requested item is no longer for the work order but there are other valid items on the same PR that have either already had some other lines procured under a PO or are on an RFQ – in...
9 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

Inspection Form supports folders to store the inspection form by different groups of users

Easy to manage the inspection forms more consistent and locate the inspection forms required
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Restore capability to read logs from all Appenders in MAS

There is no way to get access to logs Appenders (Rolling and any custom appender). MAS allows reading only the Console appender (System.out) via S3 buckets. The option to read all appenders existed in Maximo 7.6.x. Please restore capability to rea...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration