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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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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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...
12 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration