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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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Improvement: Bar Charts on Start centre to Drill on Bar and Open Results in Application

On Start Centres when you go to a Portlet. You can change your view to “Set Chart Options” So for example. On the Team Work Tab. Go to “Work Scheduled and Assigned” and Go to “Set Chart Options” And Display the Chart. This then gives you a bar Cha...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration

Remove Non-breaking spaces from Excel downloads for true accuracy

Whenever the download to Excel option is used in Maximo the resulting Excel files contains NON-BREAKING SPACE(U+00A0) instead of the value in the database which is SPACE(U+0020). This means that the values in Excel are not accurate and cause probl...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration

WORKORDER PLAN deletion

System: Maximo work orders work planActor: work orders maintenance usersDescription: Our maintenance users work onto Maximo work orders application using work orders hierarchies and work plan. Sometimes, they want to delete the work plan (just the...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

Dynamic Job Plans should allow to enter job plan duration that is less than 1 minute.

There are some inspections that last only few seconds but overall it takes minutes to complete them all because there is hundreds of them in a batch. If they get one minute each then total time is much longer than real inspection time. For example...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration

manual input node should allow many actions lines to same next node

If I have a Manual Input where the user chooses a description to set the priority or impact level, an Action Line is required for each option to be presented to the user. An action for setting the value is then put on each line, and that makes sen...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Workflow 3 Not under consideration

Inspection form creates 2 forms per Work Order

I have this screen of 26 inspections, this is just me testing and on those 26, 13 are absolutely useless to the end user as they are a double occurrence of another. Now here is what happen in the real life of a train maintenance site; for Eglinton...
over 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 5 Is a defect

VET Provide function to report number of open connections per userid

Request to amend the database connection manager to provide details of the connections and the number of open connections.The best way would be to provide the userid / spid / epoch of when the connection was opened in a data structure. Any other i...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

Need send to reply to values in sched reports

The redhat changes from April 2021 seemed to have caused an issue with mimecast spoofing and emails from scheduled reports do not work as expected and IBM has no Resolution for us at this time; please find a resolution and apply a fix asap. Custom...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Support network drive and non-HTTP URLs for large (>500MB) attachments

Attachments only support URLS for HTTP and HTTPS links only. Some files are so large(i.e. video files) that it is unworkable to upload/download by users. It takes so long to upload the connection times out. It takes equally long to download the fi...
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

new feature for Cost Type FIFO - to Return a Receipt to vendor( after it has been issued and returned from a WO)

Issue: it is not possible to return the line to vendor because when clicking on select items to return Item with quantity receipt (30 units) is not being showed. Item appears with partial QTY to be returned Steps to reproduce the issue: Create ite...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Not under consideration