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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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Asset Inventory Moves - Ability to perform mass move of rotating assets between bins within a storeroom or between storerooms and bins.

Why?Today the process of moving assets from bin to bin within in a storeroom or even between storerooms is a 1 by 1 asset process. This is very time consuming. Who benefits?The customers that benefit most are those that use the inventories to mana...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Needs more information

When Asset Costing is used the work/job plan material should have the option of how to derive the unit cost

Currently when asset costing is used the work plan materials unit cost will be zero even if all the rotating assets in the storeroom have the same inventory cost. A unit cost should be added (it can easily be missed by the planner) otherwise you a...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 2 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

Work Queue Manager - a blue Update button should appear as soon as you make a change to an existing work queue

If you have an existing work queue which you are modifying you need to navigate to the last page, Add Actions, before you can see the blue Update button, a bit annoying, it should appear straight away. Example, you would create a work queue and te...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Planned for future release

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

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

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

Add the ability to use an Inspection Form as a way to capture information that can populate other records in Maximo

An inspection form should be able to be set up to capture data. The data captured should be able to update other Maximo objects. New assets are being constructed. There is a form to capture additional details such as serial number, was the as buil...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Planned for future release

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...
10 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration