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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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Create Followup Work Order from Multiple Assets Locations and CIs table in Work Order applications

When you are performing the same activity across multiple assets and locations as part of a single work order, you may need to create a follow-up work order against the asset or location that exists in the Multiple Assets, Locations and CIs table....
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future 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...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 1 Not under consideration

Work Orders (RBA) - List view should show work type and not the work type description for multiple reasons

Reasons: - The work type description is much wider than five characters and will take up more room- The description is not a unique attribute and may be repeated multiple times as it is in the MAXDEMO database- The description does not exist in th...
6 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Work Orders (RBA) - Workflow Assignments should show the Assigned Person Code

In the Work Orders role-based application, the Workflow Assignments option shows the process and task but not the Assigned Person Code as you would see on any Workflow enabled application in a classic Maximo application. You should be able to easi...
6 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Planned for future release

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...
almost 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future 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...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under 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

Lease/Rental Contracts - Handling of asset rentals for a small number of days

In the current Lease/Rental Contracts the Term is in months. When hiring equipment, from tool hire or plant hire companies, the term may be measured in days with only one payment or a few payments including a refundable deposit. Ideally you would ...
6 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Future consideration

Lease/Rental Contracts - Add the term and number of payments to modifiable fields on the Associated Asset to provide greater flexibility

The term and number of payments are on the lease/rental contract header which means that if the term or number of payments will differ for an asset you need to create another contract. This can lead to many contracts with the same vendor, each wit...
6 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 2 Future consideration