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Maximo 7.6.x - Record Hover - Should Always Display Information Even If Related Record Is No Longer Valid For Entry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

Integrate M365 SharePoint document links as valid web page attachments for Direct Print in Work Order Tracking

Internal business processes leverage M365 SharePoint libraries for policy and procedure documentation. We'd like to incorporate these attachments (.pdf) as printable web page attachments in the Direct Print function in Work Order Tracking.
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 2 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

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

Re-open the Quick Find Field

This field is now hidden, and far to the right, and requires the users to do multiple clicks to do a fast find on a single record. This makes it more difficult and less intuitive to users to do a query for a record. Often the proximity of this fie...
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 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

Incorrect recalculation of PO Cost if we change the currency more than one time into the Purchase Order application.

Steps to replicate: 1. Create a PO from Purchase Order application. System will automatically bring the currency defined in the Companies Master application. 2. Change the currency to USD and add a line with line cost as 100. System displays the T...
8 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under 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