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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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Maximo - work order tracking>Actuals>Labor approval from work order tracking screen via an approval button/Selection by individual line or all on actuals >Labor tab in work order tracking and/or a link to labor reporting to approve the work orders labor then return to work order tracking screen.

Maximo - work order tracking>Actuals>Labor approval from work order tracking screen via an approval button/Selection by individual line or all on actuals >Labor tab in work order tracking and/or a link to labor reporting to approve the wo...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Master PMs - should be able to standardize all the fields in a PM

We create a master template to be able to standardize and speed up the process. However, not all the fields in a PM are available on the Master PM, so each PM still requires a fair amount of editing before making active. For example, the 3 frequen...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Add as Spare Part to Asset Template

There's currently a checkbox in Item Master to add a part to the Asset's Spare Parts list when issued to a Work Order w/ an Asset. However, we are trying to manage our Assets' Spare Parts list via Asset Templates. It would make more sense that whe...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

How to register Problem-Cause-Remedy on a WO having multiple Assets

Being the contractor's technician or the Asset Operation Manager, I need to be able to report different sets of Problem-Cause-Remedy on assets on my multi-asset WOs, so that I can ensure that later defect analysis will be based on valid data and d...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Enhancement to the workflow admin tool

Enhancement to the workflow admin tool in Maximo, so that MaxAdmin better can support end users As an MaxAdmin, I need to have some extra functionality added into the Workflow Admin app, so that I can see which user a workflow is assigned to as we...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Workflow 0 Future consideration

Keeping DB Backup for extended period of time (beyond 1 month) automatically.

This is an Ask from our client. It is useful for the below reason: 1. Investigate any data issue by restoring the older backup, if it is not traceable when it was introduced. 2. Restore lower environment with older backup (say 6 month old). 3. Bui...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Future consideration

Use Ticket or Work Order Calendar for Calculating Escalation Point Condition

In Organizations application the SLA Options setting Use Calendar for Calculating Escalation Point Condition doesn't appear to work and it is believed to have never been implemented. The idea behind this seems to be that when creating an escalatio...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Use the calendar on the work order or ticket as the SLA calculation calendar

When an SLA is applied to a ticket or workorder the calculation calendar should be optionally derived from the ticket or work order using the existing fields CALCORGID, CALCCALENDAR, CALCSHIFT. If all three fields have a value then use these inste...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Inventory Re-ordering enhancement

Recently our business users approached us that they'd like to exclude certain inventory condition codes from total inventory balance calculations so re-ordering can be triggered earlier. It will be nice if Maximo Re-ordering Cron task can provide ...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Future consideration

Improve performance on adding job plans with a high number of tasks to workorders

I have a customer who has multiple jobplans that have a high number of tasks (>100 tasks). Whenever such a task is added to a workorder the user will need to wait for the system to have processed all these tasks until she/he can continue workin...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Future consideration