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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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Open Filter on System Properties Application by default

Opening the System Properties starts with focus and selction of the first description in the list. I always have to open the fileter pane to start finding the propery that i want to check or change.
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under 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

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

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

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

BIM Projects - Import IFC File

Currently the "BIM Projects" application supports the import of COBie (Construction-Operations Building Information Exchange) data in csv and xls file format. Since COBie is only a subset of IFC (Industry Foundation Classes), the idea would be tha...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 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.
about 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...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration