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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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WOTRACK Advanced Search: Filter by total actuals cost (including task cost)

WOTRACK Advanced Search: It would be helpful if users had a way to filter WOs by total actuals cost (including task cost). Examples: Find WOs where the total cost (incl. tasks) is negative Find WOs where the total cost (incl. tasks) is zero Find W...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Ability to Choose Document Name and Description when Uploading Multiple Attachments

When adding multiple attachments at once, the document names and descriptions cannot be changed before they are uploaded. The document name and description just gets defaulted to the filename. It would be nice to be able to change the document nam...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 4 Not under 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

Prevent Maximo from Allowing Users to Delete PMs that Generated Work Orders

Maximo allows users to delete PMs even if utilized on Work Orders (as long as they are history Work Orders). Enabling this causes referential integrity issues because the PMNUM field is still stored on the history Work Orders and users reviewing t...
about 10 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration

Set default ROS for application (ad-hoc reports)

Could IBM make it so we can set the default Report Object Structure (aka "category") for an application? Example: WOTRACK: Currently, the default ROS is the second one in the list. I want to make the first ROS be the default instead (it's a cus...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 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

Error on print of pdf attachments "could not merge all files. on maximo print"

Please provide a technical solution for the limitation of print of these pdf attachments , There is a IBM technote stating as limitation,https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/pdf-attachments-maximo-record-are-not-printed-direct-print-attachments-actio...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Not under consideration

Inactivate user in manage

In Maximo 76 we can deactivate a user from user app -> update status. This functionality is no longer available in Manage 8.x. We have large user base, and group, team, or site leaders manage their team active/inactive user list. Suggest Manage...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration

Maximo Exchange Rates when Receiving good with different currency

Maximo is setup currently with Base Currency of CAD and a secondary currency of USD. We have a daily exchange rate that is loaded into Maximo through integration. Based on the following IBM technote https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/which-date-exc...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Future consideration