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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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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

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

Email header overrides

We have users in our Maximo environment with external email addresses. When sent via our internal mail server these fail DMARC validation and get rejected as spam. We are requesting the ability to override the outbound email headers to avoid email...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

Associate dynamic numeric ranges in the inspection forms.

Currently it is possible to include conditional settings using a numeric range with fixed values, but for business case these values should be dynamic and depend on the asset. Business case: Our client wants to display in the inspection form resul...
6 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Future consideration

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 ...
12 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Future consideration

Mass Update all Item Spec values when the ALN or NUM Value for the Classification/Attribute is updated

Mass Update all Item Spec values when the ALN or NUM Value for the Classification/Attribute is updated. This is similar in concept to having a default value associated to a field OR similiar to Master PMs where an update to the Master PM can be pu...
over 10 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 4 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...
12 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future 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

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