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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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Allow user to select a Fit To property for PDF when scheduling a report so that reports with many columns will not be cut off on the right side

emailed PDFs will be cut off if the report contains a lot of columns, preventing users from seeing all of their data. We have users experiencing this issue in Maximo 7.6.1
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

Create some type of notification that informs the user that a data export limit has been set via the system property [webclient.maxdownloadrows] , so they are aware that there data may get truncated.

Setting the system property property [webclient.maxdownloadrows] helps prevent out of memory errors. However when set, the users are not aware of the limit. This presents a danger for analyzing data or trusting the dataset that is exported . For e...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Automatically Generate the "Current Schedule" when Loading Depreciation and Depreciation Schedules using MIF

When creating depreciation for an asset manually in Maximo, the current depreciation schedule generates automatically after entering the pertinent depreciation and depreciation schedule information. Subsequently the value of the asset is reflected...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

make organisation and site fields editable when duplicating a jobplan

When you duplicate a jobplan, the organisation and site fields are readonly. This prevents super users to easily replicate jobplans throughout the organisations and sites.
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 2 Not under consideration

Error on print of pdf attachments "could not merge all files. on maximo print"

Please provide a technical solution for the limitation of print of these pdf attachments , There is a IBM technote stating as limitation,https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/pdf-attachments-maximo-record-are-not-printed-direct-print-attachments-actio...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Not under consideration

Inactivate user in manage

In Maximo 76 we can deactivate a user from user app -> update status. This functionality is no longer available in Manage 8.x. We have large user base, and group, team, or site leaders manage their team active/inactive user list. Suggest Manage...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration

VET Provide functionality to highlight slow crontasks in real time

Amend the crontask instance definition so it includes:- A new attribute "runtimeThres" which defines how the threshold in milliseconds- Amend the crontask history object so it includes:- A flag to indicate if the crontask took longer than the thre...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

Automatically refresh admin mode status

Database Administration application: When managing admin mode or applying configuration changes, we need to manually refresh the status window to determine when the process is finished. Screenshot: https://i.stack.imgur.com/IlEIw.png It would be b...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

PMs should have full ROUTE support implemented

PROBLEM:Certain Route based PMs have no History data even though the Work Orders are being generated. This is possibly happening from the Route not passing on any asset or location values to the history table per this IBM KB DOC: https://www.ibm.c...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Extend Maximo Formula functionality to include DELETE updates

Maximo Formulas currently update parent objects on INSERT and UPDATE events. However, they are not updated with DELETE events. There is functionality created by my team in the Job Plans application that calculates the “Total Manhours for job” as t...