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IBM MAS - Configuration

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Changes in security settings when doing deployments

Being the Maximo Administrator, my experience tells me that each time I do an upgrade of my Maximo environment, new features and functions come with changes to security settings. This is part of the packages. That's understandable. I need to have ...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Configuration 0 Future consideration

Remove time portion of datetime field in comm templates

Would like comm templates to support DATE conversion functions. I was told on Case TS008555377 that communication templates do not support DATE conversion functions and the only way to modify the format of datetime fields on comm templates is via ...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Easy administration of data and actions to be done when trusted coworkers leave the company

Easy administration of data and actions to be done when trusted coworkers leave the company Being the MaxAdmin, I need to have an extra tab in the Person app, so that I easily can see where a specific user has links into data, so that I would know...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Configuration 0 Future consideration

Load mechanism for Vendors’ Hours, Material, Services and Tools costs​

Load mechanism for Vendors’ Hours, Material, Services and Tools costs​ - specification files describing amount of hours (person, skill level, craft rate) + which Services, Materials or Tools have been used on a specific WO​ - should eliminate typi...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Configuration 0 Future consideration

Change the color scheme in Manage

Many customers are requesting/looking for a way to change colors and add links to Manage UI in order to align with business requirements and other applications that are used across organization. Manage should provide a way in the configuration pag...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Configuration 4

Tools API should provide call to run LATestFixReportWriter.sh

For Manage, at this point, the only way to run this to get into the maxinst pod and run the command the manually. Then, if S3 COS will be configured you can take the reports from the bucket if not you need to manually get it from the pod and provi...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Edit MAXVARS via UI

It would be helpful we could edit the MAXVARS table via the Maximo UI. It's not always possible for Maximo admins to edit tables like MAXVARS via DB/SQL statements.
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Deactivate Classifications

Please make the logic in this technote be available as standard OOB functionality: Hide Inactive Classifications From Users Use Case: We have classifications that were used in WOs that are now closed. Going forward, we want to prevent users from u...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Configuration 2 Future consideration

Improve Formulas Documentation

The information in the Formulas section in the docs is limited: Database configuration formulas Could IBM please expand on the info in the docs? For example, there are fragments of information/PDFs scattered around the web: - Maximo Formula's are ...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Divide list view fields with vertical line or border

In Maximo list views (like the WOTRACK list view): It would be helpful if we could visually group like-fields by adding a vertical line/border between fields. Example: Put standard WO filtering fields on the left hand side of the list view, add a ...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Configuration 2 Not under consideration