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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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Attributes defined as YORN data type should be allowed utilize crossover domains

While it is understandable that ALN, Numeric and Table Domains are not allowed to be defined on YORN datatype attributes in Maximo database configuration, there is a need for crossing YORN datatype attributes from one object to another. I have a b...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 2 Not under consideration

When Maximo is hosted in IBM cloud and user authentication is configured to use SAML it is not allowed to synchronize users including security groups with LDAPsync. The response from the IDP provider (ex Azure) includes the user information and security group. Why can't Maximo SAML integration use this information to create and update users in Maximo.

This will solve the issue with missing users and wrong securitygroups in Manage based on manual maintenenace. Today we spend lot of time to create new users and add securitygroups based on email information. Is there any other solution available t...
9 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

In Maximo Application Suite, the start center portlet does not auto refresh automatically.

Hello Team,In Maximo Application Suite, the start center portlet does not auto refresh in MAS. Client needs to manually update the start center whenever there is an update.Could you please help us in adding the auto refresh feature for the start c...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Attribute formula comments/description

For attribute formulas: It would be helpful if we could add comments to complex formulas that we’ve written…to describe what the formulas do and how they work. In other words, could IBM please add a DESCRIPTION field to the ATTRFORMULA table.
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Not under consideration

Report list: Information popup

For a given application like WOTRACK —> Run Reports —> Reports window/list: It would be helpful if the report list could also have details about the report. So that the user can know what the report does…prior to running it. Like this: https...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Support in-memory tables

In-memory db tables can provide significant performance improvements for high-transaction tables (like meter readings). In-memory tables are available in all db platforms. The only catch is that the technology is implemented differently between pl...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Bind variable for "Is Interactive?"

It would be helpful if IBM could create a new bind variable for "Is Interactive?" (&INTERACTIVE&) Currently, in order for us to check if a session is interactive or not, we need to use an automation script. But if there were a bind variabl...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Future consideration

Deactivate Classifications

Please make the logic in this technote be available as standard OOB functionality: Hide Inactive Classifications From Users Use Case: We have classifications that were used in WOs that are now closed. Going forward, we want to prevent users from u...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Future consideration

Launch in context - Pass the Maximo where clause value

Currently you can pass a value through the launch in context. Can we add the ability to receive the full where clause as well.
10 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 3 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...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 3 Future consideration