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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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Testing Maximo in Japanese environment after applying fixes

Maximo Administrator has to update the data of MAXOBJECT to Japanese each time because the resource file is not translated to Japanese.This untranslated data always causes the Manage module to fail to start after the fixes are applied. Users canno...
6 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Disable: Asset gets auto-populated if location has single asset

It would be helpful if there were a system setting that could be used to disable the following functionality: In a WO, the asset gets auto-populated if the location only has a single asset A lot of organizations don't want that functionality. I th...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

PO Accounting changes cannot be made after there are charges (Financial transactions from Receipts / Invoices / etc.) to the PO.

PO Line Accounting Cannot be Revised on a PO if there are Receipts/Actuals. This results in Invoices Not Paid due to Incorrect Accounting that cannot be classified differently than the Distributed PO Line.
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future 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...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Maximo views: Increase SQL FROM clause character limit

When creating a view object in Maximo db config: The view's FROM clause can only have 1000 characters. BMXAA4049E 1000 characters might seem like a lot, but in fact, many queries have more than 1000 characters in the FROM clause, especially if the...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Restore capability to read logs from all Appenders in MAS

There is no way to get access to logs Appenders (Rolling and any custom appender). MAS allows reading only the Console appender (System.out) via S3 buckets. The option to read all appenders existed in Maximo 7.6.x. Please restore capability to rea...
7 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Lease/Rental Contracts - Associated Assets - Addition of a multi-select lookup designed for the contract, replacing Select More Assets

When you select assets, you may have defined contract lines which reference rotating items, you must have authorized sites, therefore the Select More Assets dialog which does not even restrict to the assets of the organization of the contract is i...
7 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Future consideration

Allow SQL expressions in Start Center Result Set Color Options Expressions

We have users that would like to use PR/PO/WO date comparisons in a Start Center Result Set to change Color Options in an Expression. For example, if the current date is greater than a week from a PR required date, color it Green, if less than 1 w...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Display the API Key Expiration Date

On the APIKEYTOKEN table, we track when the API key was created and the expiration (in minutes) that have to be added to the date. That means users need to perform their own calculation (adding the minutes from expiration to creationdate) to deter...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 0

7.6.1.3 - ASSETSPEC DISPLAYSEQUENCE is SMALLINT, but needs to be INT

We have GIS Pipelines that stretch over large distances. As a result, certain Pipeline Assets have thousands of Specs (10 Specs per length of pipe). When we create the Asset Specs through integration, the ASSETSPEC.DISPLAYSEQUENCE field is increme...
7 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Future consideration