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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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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

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

Improve Workflow Designer to all allow disablement of out of data processes

Workflow designer is very inconsistent with allowing process to be disabled, even when the main process revision that they are attached to is disabled. This was reported to IBM on the referenced case as a problem with Application Designer, and the...
almost 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration

Custom bind variables

It would be helpful if we could define custom bind variables in Maximo. Examples: &FIRSTNAME& &ISINTERACTIVE& &ENVNAME& (i.e. the Maximo environment name; not the same thing as the existing :&HOSTNAME& variable). Us...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 3 Future consideration

PM Forecast Prompt on Closing Work Orders

For a PM using the completion date of the last work order to generate the next work order "Use Last Work Order's Start Date to Calculate Next Due Date?" is Unchecked. When the work order is completed the old forecasts remains. The user closing the...
8 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

Enhancing Material Allocation/Deallocation automation

The material reservation function in Maximo utilizes a ‘first come first served' approach to allocate material for work. Reallocation of material for work orders takes a considerable amount of manual effort by Supply Chain in order to align the pr...
almost 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

Add the ability to be able to go to the last, first or a specific page

The table control should allow the ability to the users to go to the first page or the last page directly even if the user is in the middle of the selection. Also, add the ability to go to a specific page. See the screenshot in attachment
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 2 Functionality already exists

StartCenter query on a duplicate database

We are facing a big problem of slowness on certain start centers associated with specific accounts. Requests made on these start centers can take up to 1 minute given the pool of data we have (~20 million lines). As long as this request from the s...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

Ability to manage Attached document folder in S3 storage

Need ability to manage Attached document folder in S3 storage.
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Batch BIRT Reports Need Option So They Are Not Sent If No Records Returned

We need Maximo BIRT reporting to support not sending out a report if no data is returned. Currently the report is sent out regardless if any records are returned. This results in extra space being taken up on the server or email server to hold a r...
almost 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration