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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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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

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

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 7.6.x - Record Hover - Should Always Display Information Even If Related Record Is No Longer Valid For Entry

The Hover Feature introduced in Maximo 7.6 is useful because users can see most relevant fields in a related record by hovering over the Key field of the related record without having to "Go To" the related application. However, the Hover pop-up i...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration

Change Object structure related warning message (BMXAA6077E) so logged as WARN instead of INFO

Maximo is logging important warnings as INFO messages when they should be logged as WARN messages [5/16/14 9:22:26:680 BST] 00000014 SystemOut O 16 May 2014 09:22:26:680 [INFO] [MXUI1] [] Column REPORTOBJECT in source object MAXAPPS for the MOBILE...
over 10 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

E-mail Listener Attachment Descriptions

E-mail listener allows for and processes attachments of inbound emails. I believe this particular aspect is handled by the pre-processor (psdi.common.emailstner.Preprocessor). All attachments are given a generic description of 'E-mail listener att...
over 5 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 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...
8 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Highlight error message in system generated email for Auto PM Work Order generation

Auto PM Work Order Generation process as per desired frequency is a standard Maximo functionality. Users receive an email message after the completion of PM Generation process that contains confirmatory message for work order generation and also e...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Allow Adding TextArea to Work Center Inspections Forms for Comments Greater Than 255 Characters

The option to add a multiline text field or a textarea would be helpful for true comments functionality in work center inspection forms since the existing Text response field is limited to 255 characters. When creating new or revising existing ins...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration