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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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PMs should have full ROUTE support implemented

PROBLEM:Certain Route based PMs have no History data even though the Work Orders are being generated. This is possibly happening from the Route not passing on any asset or location values to the history table per this IBM KB DOC: https://www.ibm.c...
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

View Item Availability - Location Tab should have Reorder, Status and Site fields

The View Item Availability dialog is used widely. If the item has a quantity available and a current balance of zero, this does not stop a reservation from being created. When you are trying to stop items from being reordered you first unset the r...
8 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Future consideration

Testing Maximo in Japanese environment after applying fixes

Maximo Administrator has to update the data of MAXOBJECT to Japanese each time because the resource file is not translated to Japanese.This untranslated data always causes the Manage module to fail to start after the fixes are applied. Users canno...
8 months 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...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Restore capability to read logs from all Appenders in MAS

There is no way to get access to logs Appenders (Rolling and any custom appender). MAS allows reading only the Console appender (System.out) via S3 buckets. The option to read all appenders existed in Maximo 7.6.x. Please restore capability to rea...
8 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Lease/Rental Contracts - Associated Assets - Addition of a multi-select lookup designed for the contract, replacing Select More Assets

When you select assets, you may have defined contract lines which reference rotating items, you must have authorized sites, therefore the Select More Assets dialog which does not even restrict to the assets of the organization of the contract is i...
8 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 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...
about 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future 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

7.6.1.3 - ASSETSPEC DISPLAYSEQUENCE is SMALLINT, but needs to be INT

We have GIS Pipelines that stretch over large distances. As a result, certain Pipeline Assets have thousands of Specs (10 Specs per length of pipe). When we create the Asset Specs through integration, the ASSETSPEC.DISPLAYSEQUENCE field is increme...
8 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 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...
about 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration