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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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Spare Part Auto Add should not add a part when the issue type is 'RETURN'

Spare Part Auto Add function appears to add parts even when the issue type is 'RETURN' and it should not. When issue is errant and someone goes to fix the asset spare part manually, but someone else later returns the part, the RETURN transaction w...
12 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Future consideration

Manage Inspection Forms - The system should allow you to create a checklist type form to perform walk through inspections

There are many scenarios where a checklist (table) format inspection can be utilized. Housekeeping uses a Check list to mark if specific tasks were done in a particular day of the week.
12 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Deactivate classifications for new work order records

We would like to deactivate some deprecated classifications used on either workorder, asset, locations, etc and avoid reporting new records using those classfications. I mean these classifications need to be available for searching but will not be...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

Ability to 'unobsolete' an item status at both 'INVENTORY' and 'ITEM' level

Occasionally we have obsoleted items because of low usage, historical reasons or whatever. Then the inventory team get a request to change the status back from OBSOLETE back to ACTIVE. Currently this does not work but wanting to know if its possib...
9 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration

Count Books - Selection Items when Selection Type is ITEM should have a Go To Menu to navigate to Inventory and Stocked Tools

Finding the correct item sometimes requires you to navigate to the core application (Inventory or Stocked Tools), find the item using the Advanced Search and returning with the value back to the originating application. The Selection Items field o...
6 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Future consideration

Count Books - Select Value on Selection Items when Selection Type is ITEM should show Inventory Description

Select Value shows Item and Storeroom. The Item, Description, Commodity Group and Commodity Code should be shown, similar to trying to find an item elsewhere in Maximo, for example Work Order Tracking - Plans - Materials. The Storeroom column is n...
6 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Future consideration

Count Books - You should be able to navigate from Count Book Lines back to the Inventory application so that you can review the inventory item.

The Item field in the Count Book Lines tab and the table window and table window details should have a Go To menu with navigation back to the Inventory application so that you can review the item or make changes that would affect future Count Book...
6 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Future consideration

Email notification format for automatic PM generation

When the mxe.wogen.FormatCronTaskEmail system property is set to true, the e-mail notifications for the automatic PM generation appear with the messages grouped in two groups: "PMs with problems" and "PMs that generated successfully". However, inc...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Future consideration

User Facing Audit Trail Visibility

A common request from management is to be able to view audit trail data for inventory and purchasing within the Maximo UI. This would essentially be a human-readable, easily accessible view of data contained in Maximo audit tables, including when ...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

Provide attachment anti-virus scanning functionality for non-IBM SaaS implementations

IBM have implemented functionality that allows Maximo to pass attachments to a 3rd party server for scanning for viruses. This functionality is controlled via the mxe.doclink.isVirusScanEnabled system property. This request is for the functionalit...
over 7 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Future consideration