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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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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

Connect to database using OLEDB provider

Hello, we are in the process of upgrading from 7612 to MAS. Our BI platform connects to the database using BD2 with OLE DB provider. Currently that option is not supported by MAS. This is a serious/critical compatibility requirement. Best regards,
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Testing Maximo in Japanese environment after applying fixes

Maximo Administrator has to update the data of MAXOBJECT to Japanese each time because the resource file is not translated to Japanese.This untranslated data always causes the Manage module to fail to start after the fixes are applied. Users canno...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

In Count Books there should be an option to exclude items where you have specified that they are not to be counted from a cycle counting perspective

Maximo has an ABC Type for Cycle Counting with options A, B, C and N - with N it means that the item is excluded from Cycle Counting. Items which are excluded are those where you would only perform a physical count once per year as part of the yea...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Future consideration

Add Ability to Select 23:59:59 on the Date/Time Popup Dialog

Users often have a requirement to search using dates and times based on the end of a day and want to be able to easily choose the time 23:59:59 on the date/time popup. This is also useful when entering date/time parameters for reports. Is it possi...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 9 Not under consideration

Order of the XML output of the PRESENTATION field on SCTEMPLATE object changes every time we export after making any change.

The order of the XML output of the PRESENTATION field changes whenever any change (if a field is added on the portlet or if a portlet is added or removed itself) is done. Note that this is due to the type of field this is CLOB and so how it is sto...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration

MAS Manage - Report Data availability in single sheet for xlsx format on download

For any BIRT Report having multiple pages in Maximo Manage, the data is also being split into Multiple Sheets in the excel if we are downloading using XLSX format after executing the Report in browser. Since many of the Users are using the xlsx ve...
11 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Inspection Form Question Grouping - Delete should not remove Inspection Questions

When inspection questions need to be removed from Inspection Question Groups the only current option is to drag and drop the inspection question out of the group and then delete the group. In the situation where I want to remove a group which has ...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Planned for future release

in workflow, generally allow Action Lines to be positive or negative

The goal of this RFE is to show that workflow should allow negative Action Lines anywhere that positive Action Lines are used, with the noted exception that Subprocess and Condition nodes should still require one positive and one negative Action L...
over 7 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

Restore capability to read logs from all Appenders in MAS

There is no way to get access to logs Appenders (Rolling and any custom appender). MAS allows reading only the Console appender (System.out) via S3 buckets. The option to read all appenders existed in Maximo 7.6.x. Please restore capability to rea...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration