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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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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

Warning on Job Plans and Work Order Tracking that Planned Labor has mixed references to both tasks and work order

When planning labor on a work order you should either plan against the work order by leaving the task field blank, or you should plan at the task level by always entering a task. Having a mix of the two on the same work order is still valid but mo...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration

Work Order synonym statuses to indicate the period of planning and scheduling

Work is planned prior to approval but there is no status to say that the work order is waiting to be planned (WPLAN) or that it has been planned (PLANNED). We also want to know how long it took to be planned, hence work order status changes would ...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Stop or grant option for not Defaulting Asset once a location is selected in Work Order application.

- Request is to either stop or grant an option to choose not to default Asset in Work order when a location is selected in Work Order Application. We understand that this works if multiple assets are associated to a single location but we request ...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Future consideration

Support Tagging/Mentions in Work Log

Users are used to in systems (email, source control, Salesforce, Slack, social media, etc.) being able to tag people to generate simple alerts to the user that they need to review/act on something. This feature should be added to work logs in Maxi...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Service Desk 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

Add a button to manually trigger an escalation

Please add a button to the escalation application to manually trigger an execution of the escalation outside of it's existing schedule. This would allow administrators to efficiently run jobs that are on infrequent schedules, instead of altering t...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Future consideration

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...
almost 8 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

Inspection Form supports folders to store the inspection form by different groups of users

Easy to manage the inspection forms more consistent and locate the inspection forms required
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 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...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 2 Future consideration