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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

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

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

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

E-mail Listeners - Separate Email Notifications Content vs Connection Issues

When an e-mail listener is setup all errors that occur go to the defined administrator e-mail address. This idea is to separate out how connection errors are handled vs errors created due to the content of an email. If an email's content causes an...
7 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Caching of Sequences for Maximo tables to void performance issue.

Caching of Sequences for Maximo tables to void performance issue. Maximo / Manage installation should set the Sequence caching for all the Maximo/Manage table to avoid the performance issue. Currently we have to set the sequence caching for all th...
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future 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

Make the relationship between Conditional UI and security optional

If we want to use the Conditional UI, we are required to use security (a custom sig option) whether our configuration is related to security or not. This is often a waste of effort. It would be helpful if the relationship between the Conditional U...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 4 Not under consideration