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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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Bulletin Board during Package Manager

Currently Maximo 7613 create BB for every time Maximo Package Migration with subject "Migration Manager package deployment is in progress.". It could for 1 minute or longer. Suggestion: Add a system property to indicate if a bulletin board message...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Not under consideration

Ability to batch update of the LOCATION Custodian (like it's enabled on Assets)

Preface Sund & Bælt operates large civil infrastructures like bridges, harbors, rail corridors, road corridors and landworks. Having thousands and thousands of assets and locations, Sund & Bælt has taken this approach to work with assets a...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future 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

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...
almost 10 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 3 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

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

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...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 2 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

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