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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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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

Switch to make Script accessible via API

This is mainly a security benefit. At the moment you can invoke every Script via /maximo/oslc/script/<ScriptName> as long as you are authorized. After years of development in our system, we are not sure every script knows about this possibil...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 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

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.
over 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...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 3 Functionality already exists

"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

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

Custom bind variables

It would be helpful if we could define custom bind variables in Maximo. Examples: &FIRSTNAME& &ISINTERACTIVE& &ENVNAME& (i.e. the Maximo environment name; not the same thing as the existing :&HOSTNAME& variable). Us...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 3 Future consideration

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

Bulletin Board during Package Manager

Currently Maximo 7613 create BB for every time Maximo Package Migration with subject "Migration Manager package deployment is in progress.". It could for 1 minute or longer. Suggestion: Add a system property to indicate if a bulletin board message...
7 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Not under consideration