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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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Work order description to come from the job plan when it's generated from a PM

Whenever a work order is generated from a PM there are two scenarios from where the resulting work order description will come from. 1. From the PM, if the PM has a description 2. From the Job Plan, if the PM has no description. The problem is tha...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 3 Planned for future release

PostgreSQL as Database for Maximo

We would like IBM to certify/support Maximo 7.6.1.x on PostgreSQL database. Considering the advancement in technology and organizations moving towards open-source databases like MongoDB and PostgreSQL, we would like to have Maximo also to be supp...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 3 Future consideration

Create purchase order by picking several PR lines with contract

We would like to have the possibility to use the action copy PRLINES to PO even if the PRLINES contains CONTRACTREFNUM with Blanket type.
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration

Life Sciences requirement: Ability to retrieve electronic audit data for a given Maximo Manage record in an easy to interpret format

An auditor needs to review Maximo Manage records, including all iterations of the record (and the approvals of any changes to the record), so that they can understand that the company they are auditing is within compliance.
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Future consideration

Create possibility to skip messages from Kafka topic

There is no option to clear the integration messages in the Kafka topic like traditional JMS queues. Kafka's proposal is to keep the message alive until the expiration date. So today the only option to clear the message from the topic is to set...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 2 Planned for future release

Asset auto-populates from Location entry when the location has a single asset

Add the option to turn off the Asset auto-populates from Location entry when the location has a single asset feature.
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 4 Planned for future release

Allow user to sort the queries alphabetically.

Currently, for each application Maximo shows a list of queries on left side under Available Queries section, based on the value set for system property -mxe.webclient.maxNavbarQueryLimit. These queries displayed do not have any sort applied, also,...
over 5 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 4 Planned for future release

meter entry - value validation

We have meters set up for our equipment, operators enter meter readings into Work orders for the equipment. The meter have condition monitoring set up ( high and low value warning and action limits). Followup work orders can be automatically gener...
about 9 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 3 Planned for future release

Add ability to update ABC Type, Reorder Point and Economic Order Quantity from the results of running Inventory Reports

There used to be 6 reports which updated the database, and these were removed for 7.6.1.3 and MAS Manage 8.3 when updating to BIRT 4.8 - a security risk with Database Access is given as the reason. A pair of reports each updated ABC Type, ROP and ...
10 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Planned for future release

Hierarchical Query support for DB2

Many hierarchies are created in Maximo. Asset, locations, classifications, item assembly structure, etc. It is useful and efficient to be able to generate hierarchical queries in the database.
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration