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PINNED Power BI capability alignment between Desktop vs embedded solution
Requesting Customer: Fraser Property but this would benefit all customers using Envizi Power BI capability Business Impact: The Frasers Property Team have recently explored the use of the embeded PowerBI functionality and have found that there are...
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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....
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Labor actuals are editable in Maximo desktop, but not in Anywhere

Anywhere Work Technician 7.6.4 (Android): My organization has changed the default labor actuals setting so that inside labor transactions don't get automatically approved: Changing Labor hours in the Actuals > Labor tab in Work Order Tracking R...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Mobile 2 Not under consideration

List View: Clear the WHERE clause & clear the resultset (without selecting records)

Scenario: A user is looking for WOs that meet certain criteria, but their default & saved queries don't fit what the user looking for. So the user runs the 'All Records' query, which selects all columns & rows from the WORKORDER table. The...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

If pmwogen gets interrupted, child WOs fail to generate (but we have no way of knowing)

If pmwogen gets interrupted for some reason (due to an error in Maximo, a server or DB outage, etc.), then the PM that is currently running stops, and the child WOs stop being generated for that PM. As a result, there are child WOs missing from t...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Future consideration

Temporary field/table to avoid immediate outage

It's frustrating that we can't make small changes to custom fields/tables without needing an admin mode outage. Is there a way to make things easier? For example, if I wanted to add a custom field to CLASSSTRUCTURE, could Maximo do the following? ...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Make status field more visible

MAM 7.6.1.2: I've noticed that users often don't realize that records in Maximo have statuses that aren't open/active. This causes a lot of confusion. Would IBM be able to make status fields more visible?
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Not under consideration

Message Tracking detail tab: View message XML

In the Message Tracking list view, I can use the edit/pencil button to view the XML of a message: https://i.stack.imgur.com/OLrii.png I would have expected to be able to view the message XML when viewing an individual message in the Message Detail...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Escalation: Only send me a single email, regardless of how many records found

For escalations, it would be helpful if there were an OOB way to make Maximo only send me a single email (per run instance), regardless of how many records were returned by the WHERE clause. For example: add a "Run for first record only" checkbo...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Future consideration

Prevent closing WO with open PR (optional setting)

It would be helpful if there were an optional setting that would prevent closing a WO if the WO has an open PR. We have an OOB setting for something similar -- it's for POs (not PRs): Prevent Users From Closing Work Orders With Open PO It would be...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Converting task to child WO: WOCLASS remains as 'ACTIVITY' (incorrect)

Summary:Converting task to child WO: WOCLASS remains as 'ACTIVITY' (incorrect) Details:The IBM docs say: "You can easily convert any task to a child work order with tasks of its own." https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/work-order-operations-are-now...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Anywhere - Priority picklist: Display number as integer, not decimal

Anywhere Work Technician 7.6.4: When I create a new WO, I can set the WO Priority by choosing a value from the pick list: https://i.stack.imgur.com/63p7b.png Could the picklist be improved so that it displays Priority as integers/whole numbers, in...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Mobile 1 Not under consideration

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