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IBM Sustainability Software - Ideas Portal


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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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

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

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...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 3 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

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.
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 2 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...
about 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

Ability to manage Attached document folder in S3 storage

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

Option to Prevent PR from Returning to APPR Status on Related PO Revision

On PO revisions to remove lines or cancel the PO, Maximo returns the related PR from ORDER status to APPR status to allow the user to complete the same revisions on the PR. Due to separation of duties requirements, the user who updates the PO cann...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 4 Not under 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...
8 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 2 Not under 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
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 2 Functionality already exists