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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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Make inspection form more robust with conditions

At the moment the conditions will not work correctly when adding a question without a response. By either requiring a response before saving the question or by making the conditions logic more robust this will prevent errors
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 9 Planned for future release

Attachments has to be restricted when Jobplan is Active ,Revised and In active has Job plan is generally locked.

In General scenario for Jobplan creation any changes are to done either in DRAFT and PNDREV status, and once jobplan is Active,The JOBPLAN gets readonly, So now user should not able to do any changes further, But user can add attachments and even ...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration

Allow the Nested Job Plan field on the Job Plan app to be editable when the Job Plan is in DRAFT or REVISD status

Currently the Nested Job Plan field is only editable when adding a New Row to the Job Plan Tasks. Would like for this field to be able to be changed based on the Job Plan status, not only when adding a New Row.
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

"Select more Work Orders" should provide a reduced scope in the 1st step and return only workorders from the same hierarchy / planning

When working in WO Tracking, the action "select more Work Orders" can take over 1 minute to respond on a system with a high Work Order load. Additionally, the output will list millions of work orders. This kind of excessive output is of no use. To...
6 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Implement canApprove() method in purchasing record Status Handlers

When implementing workflow for purchasing records (PR, PO, Invoice) it would be very useful to have a single method that contained all of the logic for verifying that the record is ready for approval. In some record types in Maximo, there is a can...
about 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

Requirement is that the Contract Analyst/Buyer field (PO.PURCHASEAGENT) be editable in all statuses except CAN, CLOSE or REVISE.

Right now, the procurement folks when there is a change in staff, they have to do a formal revision (admin type of amendment) to change one field. Procurement are the owners of the application and should therefore, have the ability to change the u...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration

Ability to add an image to the inspection form itself (Ex. Provide a picture to person performing inspection) within Manage Inspection Forms

Within new Inspection work center, if added to the form, it could provide useful information to the person actually performing the inspection later.
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Future consideration

Create native db views via Maximo db config

For those of us who don't have CREATE VIEW privileges in the database: It would be helpful if there could be a way to create native db views via Maximo. The views would later be imported into Maximo as imported view objects. Related posts: Views D...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 3 Functionality already exists

Add width control to app designer table column

When configuring a table in application designer, often the width of a column needs to be extended to allow full visibility of the data. There is no option on the table column properties for this, however exporting the XML and adding a width="xx" ...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Ability to Freeze Tab Group on any Application

We have received several requests for the ability to freeze the tab group in place so the Maximo user can access the tab group when scrolling down on the application, without having to scroll back up to access the tab group.
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 2 Functionality already exists