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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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VET Improve escalation related error information for support teams

The current escalation system does not give administrators visibility of the number of errors that are encountered when an escalation runs. The lack of visibility means that administrators can create escalations without realising that they are fai...
over 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Future consideration

Track Bin Size and Physical Location in Storeroom

Inventory plays a critical role in Maximo operations. Today it's not possible to visualize where bins are located in the storeroom. It's also not possible to track the dimensions of the bins or of the items so a storeroom clerk has to know where t...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

Ability to search on more than one attribute

Our users are asking for better ways for them to get information out of Maximo without having to request reports from our admin team. While documenting and training the users on the Attribute Search query in Work Order Tracking I noted you cannot ...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

Include whereclause and parameters in report usage log table

Trackng down the cause of long running reports is one of the most painful tasks in Maximo. It would be extremely helpful if the whereclause being passed into the report was documented in the reportusage log. (It's currently captured temporarily in...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Prevent the Cancel of a PO if an un approved invoice exists

Update the IDEA name to align with the Case file how IBM would solve this problem. We have a PO that has been canceled that has an invoice that is approved. We need to reverse the invoice as it was invoiced in error. When we try and approve the RE...
10 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 3 Planned for future release

meter entry - value validation

We have meters set up for our equipment, operators enter meter readings into Work orders for the equipment. The meter have condition monitoring set up ( high and low value warning and action limits). Followup work orders can be automatically gener...
over 9 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 3 Future consideration

Signature Security option to change status on storeroom item from OBSOLETE to ACTIVE if ACTIVE at Item/Org level.

If the Item/Organization status for an item is ACTIVE and a storeroom status is OBSOLETE, then it should be possible to change status on the storeroom item back to ACTIVE if the inventory team decide to restock the item. Currently you cannot chang...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Future consideration

OSLC allow setvaluemode header with BULK

When using POST oslc/os/someOS X-method-override: BULK allow the use of setvaluemode in the meta "_meta":{ "setvaluemode":1 }
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 3 Future consideration

View Item Availability - Location Tab should have Reorder, Status and Site fields

The View Item Availability dialog is used widely. If the item has a quantity available and a current balance of zero, this does not stop a reservation from being created. When you are trying to stop items from being reordered you first unset the r...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Future consideration

Count Books using the Select Type of CNTFREQ should not select items where the Count Frequency is zero

In the Count Books application when the Select Type is set to CNTFREQ I think it safe to ignore items where the Count Frequency (INVENTORY.CCF) is zero which is the default for items. If it is zero, then the item will always be due a count, when t...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Future consideration