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IBM Sustainability Software - Ideas Portal


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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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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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Currently Role Base Inspection "Enter Time" on the inspection form only pops up widget on mobile and not desktop

We have users performing inspections on desktops, IE material receiving, however if you create an inspection form and add a time field, you cannot select a time. I was told this is not a bug by IBM, however "Role-Based" is more designed for mobile...
6 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Needs more information

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

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

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

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

Make Rich Text fields' font by default bigger

All users report that they cant read whats written in any rich text field. We understand that it can be changed by the user, however, by default, it should be at least the same size as other fields.
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Force URL to open on New SR landing page even if user has an existing SR open

We are using 7.6.1.2. We would like to send our users directly to the "Enter a NEW Service Request" screen (https://peacehealth.maximo.com/maximo-x/#/selfservice/new). However, if the user already has at least one open Service Request they are tak...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 3 Not under consideration

E-mail Listeners - Separate Email Notifications Content vs Connection Issues

When an e-mail listener is setup all errors that occur go to the defined administrator e-mail address. This idea is to separate out how connection errors are handled vs errors created due to the content of an email. If an email's content causes an...
7 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 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