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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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Integrate M365 SharePoint document links as valid web page attachments for Direct Print in Work Order Tracking

Internal business processes leverage M365 SharePoint libraries for policy and procedure documentation. We'd like to incorporate these attachments (.pdf) as printable web page attachments in the Direct Print function in Work Order Tracking.
10 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 2 Not under consideration

Add detail to 'View workflow history' dialog

The current 'View Workflow History' dialog box gives no useful detail to the user of the steps the workflow has followed to its current point. Using existing database relationships, the description of the workflow node and action line and the memo...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Planned for future release

Move MR Business Logic out of Bean Class and into MBO

There seems to be business logic around Material Requisition status that is being executed in bean classes and not within the Maximo Business Object associated with MRs. If a new MR is created in the Maximo UI and there is an active workflow on th...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 2 Future consideration

Requirement is that the Contract Analyst/Buyer field (PO.PURCHASEAGENT) be editable in all statuses except CAN, CLOSE or REVISE.

Right now, the procurement folks when there is a change in staff, they have to do a formal revision (admin type of amendment) to change one field. Procurement are the owners of the application and should therefore, have the ability to change the u...
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration

Ability to Freeze Tab Group on any Application

We have received several requests for the ability to freeze the tab group in place so the Maximo user can access the tab group when scrolling down on the application, without having to scroll back up to access the tab group.
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 2 Functionality already exists

Centralized control of Saved Queries - many corporate policies are in coflict with the design of Saved Queries

Corporate policies do not allow sharing of passwords. A Saved Query is specifically controlled by the User that created it. When a User shares a saved query they are the only one that can edit it. It would be beneficial to have an application wher...
over 9 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 4

Disable: Asset gets auto-populated if location has single asset

It would be helpful if there were a system setting that could be used to disable the following functionality: In a WO, the asset gets auto-populated if the location only has a single asset A lot of organizations don't want that functionality. I th...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Make Rich Text fields' font by default bigger

All users report that they cant read whats written in any rich text field. We understand that it can be changed by the user, however, by default, it should be at least the same size as other fields.
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

When Maximo is hosted in IBM cloud and user authentication is configured to use SAML it is not allowed to synchronize users including security groups with LDAPsync. The response from the IDP provider (ex Azure) includes the user information and security group. Why can't Maximo SAML integration use this information to create and update users in Maximo.

This will solve the issue with missing users and wrong securitygroups in Manage based on manual maintenenace. Today we spend lot of time to create new users and add securitygroups based on email information. Is there any other solution available t...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Under review

Maximo mxe.ltpatoken.timeout needs to be able to retrospectively delete records in the LTPATOKEN table

Currently, the code does not cater for retrospective deletions of the LTPATOKEN table should an event occur that stops the process set via the mxe.ltpatoken.timeout. If data is present before the timeout date is not get deleted. This can lead to a...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration