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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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Allow existing contracts to be associated to a new Master Contract

Business Requirements Within an organization, as some purchasing and contracts shift from a site or branch to global procurement, it becomes necessary to bring various existing contracts under one master contract that can be managed globally. Use ...
11 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Future consideration

Provide PM Option to Calculate Next Due Date from Last Completion Date of a Different PM

Currently, Maximo provides the option to calculate the PM next due date based on the frequency criteria and either the last completion date or last start date of the same PM. We have a common requirement to set the due date of one PM based on the ...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 3 Not under consideration

Switch to make Script accessible via API

This is mainly a security benefit. At the moment you can invoke every Script via /maximo/oslc/script/<ScriptName> as long as you are authorized. After years of development in our system, we are not sure every script knows about this possibil...
11 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

Volume price contract items to be correctly used when storeroom reorder PR is created (works OK for direct reorder created PR)

Hi Team ,  we would appreciate considering this idea.  In times where majority of stocked items are covered by contracts, this missing functionally makes difficult to use them as the used unitcost on reorder generated PR line could be in...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration

Centralized control of Saved Queries - many corporate policies are in coflict with the design of Saved Queries

Corporate policies do not allow sharing of passwords. A Saved Query is specifically controlled by the User that created it. When a User shares a saved query they are the only one that can edit it. It would be beneficial to have an application wher...
about 10 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 4

"Auto" should be Available and default file type for External System - Enterprise Service - Data Import

In Maximo / MAS Manage, navigate to External Systems > (load one) > Enterprise Service > (select one) > Data Import. The file type options presented are XML, JSON and Flat File. There needs to be an "Auto" option that can look at the e...
11 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Allow asynchroneous processing for publish channels

When there are publish channels attached to an object in Maximo, system would run all logic in relevant user exists / filters / processing classes in the same thread where save() on the object was called. If outbound processing is complex, this ca...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 1 Not under consideration

Stop auto-approving material, tools and services cost transactions

Currently, Maximo auto-approves a transaction when material, tools or services are entered. If a user makes a mistake when entering a cost, there's no way to fix the error before the transaction is approved. The only way to rectify this is to put ...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Automatically Generate the "Current Schedule" when Loading Depreciation and Depreciation Schedules using MIF

When creating depreciation for an asset manually in Maximo, the current depreciation schedule generates automatically after entering the pertinent depreciation and depreciation schedule information. Subsequently the value of the asset is reflected...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Maintain the hyperlinks included in a report when it is sent by email

Our client needs to schedule reports that contain hyperlinks. These hyperlinks are working fine when the report is executed using Immediate option, and let them jump to other report. When the report is scheduled and sent by email they hyperlinks a...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration