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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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Easier way to run cron task on demand

It would be helpful if there were an easier way to run a cron task on demand. Currently, we can edit the scheduled time of a cron task so that it runs in a couple of minutes from now. But that isn't ideal, because we need to write down the real sc...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Object Structures: Exclude Attributes Mode should work for Report Object Structures too

In the Object Structures application: Currently, Exclude Attributes Mode isn't designed to work for Report Object Structures (Consumed By = REPORTING). Exclude Attributes Mode is only is designed to work where Consumed By = INTEGRATION. See case #...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Configurable message format and compression scheme for Maximo's kafka client

Allowing configuration for outbound Kafka messages would benefit users that want to use Maximo's kafka client to publish messages to a kafka broker, which will be then consumed directly by other applications. As far as I understand, Maximo's pre...
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 0 Planned for future release

Ad-hoc report text fields: Align-left instead of align-right (optional setting)

Maximo aligns ad-hoc report text fields to the right, instead of to the left. Screenshot: https://i.stack.imgur.com/KrbtZ.png That's different from most software platforms. Other programs like Excel, MS Access, and SQL clients align text to the le...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Not under consideration

Importing a view: Don't make the attribute fields be read-only

When importing a view: (not to be confused with creating a view in Maximo directly via the UI) With imported views, there is a limitation in the DB Config application —> Attributes tab where the attribute fields become arbitrarily read-only, de...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Future consideration

BIRT Support for converting base64 images pasted into Task LD field to print to pdf

Maximo allows images to be pasted into Job Plan Task Long Description field, but when you attempt to print to pdf, the images aren't output. The IBM method is to Attach the images using the "Insert Image" URL link feature. While this works, it def...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Please add a pod anti-affinity preferredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution constraint to the build configs that get generated by Manage

When Manage is deployed with separate cron, mea, report and ui bundles the cron-build, mea-build, report-build and ui-build are started concurrently after the admin build. Our observation is that in OCP 4.12 these 4 builds usually get scheduled on...
12 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

Application XML: List of possible XML properties

It would be helpful if IBM could publish a list of properties that are available for application XML. For example, how would we find out about table control properties like "collapsewhenempty"? There doesn't seem to be any documentation on the pro...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Create view without an outage

Related: Audit tables don't require outage, but custom table does? It's possible to create audit tables without needing admin mode. If that's the case, then why would we need admin mode to create a custom view? The two scenarios seem similar. I wo...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 3 Not under consideration

Allow Searching of Question Numbers for Inspection Form Condition Creatiion

Currently for adding conditions on Inspection Form Questions in Work Centers, you can only search by description. This is inconvenient since in our case, we have over 600 questions to look through.
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration