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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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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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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...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Re-implement Workflow Designer

The current state of the Workflow designer could be improved in several dimensions. The flow charting design tool is erratic and difficult to use, arbitrarily redrawing the canvas (and not in a particularly usable manner). The actual objects do no...
about 6 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration

"Select more Work Orders" should provide a reduced scope in the 1st step and return only workorders from the same hierarchy / planning

When working in WO Tracking, the action "select more Work Orders" can take over 1 minute to respond on a system with a high Work Order load. Additionally, the output will list millions of work orders. This kind of excessive output is of no use. To...
7 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Workorders Generated From PMs Written Against a Location (Which Only Has One Asset) Should Only List the Location

Maximo currently adds the asset to any workorder generated by a PM associated with a location if the location only has one asset. This make no sense for our company for we want any work done associated with the location and not the asset. If we wa...
about 10 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 6 Not under consideration

Maximo Work Centers support for split screen in Safari on iPadOS

When using the iPadOS split screen functionality on an Apple iPad, Work Center forms (i.e. inspection forms) do not scale correctly and are essentially zoomed out. To workaround the issue, a user must use the Safari zoom functions to manually zoom...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 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...
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

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...
7 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 2 Not under consideration

Maximo Field Site Id issue

The Home Depot Maximo Implementation does not require a storeroom. However, if you did not put the item/service item in a storeroom the reorder will not get it. In order to complete the reorder process we are required to set up a storeroom. It is ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Future consideration

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