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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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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

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

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

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

Password expiration enabled in Manage

Please ignore... added to diff group
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 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

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

Work Order indicator that a lease/rental contract exists for the asset

When you are planning work or about to work on an asset, you should know whether the asset belongs to an active lease/rental contract, or there is a warranty/service contract, there is already a field to indicate that a warranty exists. You can th...
7 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration