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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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Eliminate the requirement to press the route workflow button again after an Interaction Node to end the WF

After routing a WF whenever an Interaction Node is encountered (i.e. Select Owner) the WF stops and the user has to to press the route workflow button again to finish the WF.
almost 12 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 3 Planned for future release

Allow common asset meter history across sites

System allows assets to be moved between the sites, but asset meter history remains in the original site. This created a problem for preventive maintenance as there is no meter history in the new site and preventive maintenance is skipped. In addi...
about 7 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

Enhancement/Fix required to prevent duplicate active WF process to avoid creating duplicate assignments for same record.

Enhancement / Fix required to prevent duplicate active workflow process and duplicate workflow assignments for the same record in Maximo workflow(any application).
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 3 Not under consideration

Allow return of rotating asset in Work Order Tracking > Actuals > Materials

Craft is used to using adding materials through work orders regardless of whether it is a Maximo item only or rotating asset. Although we can issue a rotating asset from a storeroom, the reverse is not possible (return rotating back to a storeroom...
over 8 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

PlusCDueDate calcluation to be corrected

Current calculation for PlusCDueDate is 1. Retrieves all WOs where WorkOrder.AssetNum = ToolTrans.RotAssetNum (note: NOT ToolTrans.AssetNum) WorkOrder.Status != ‘CLOSED', 'COMPLETED', or ‘CANCELED' WorkOrder.WorkType = ‘CAL' or a synonym of ‘CA...
about 6 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration

Use Ticket or Work Order Calendar for Calculating Escalation Point Condition

In Organizations application the SLA Options setting Use Calendar for Calculating Escalation Point Condition doesn't appear to work and it is believed to have never been implemented. The idea behind this seems to be that when creating an escalatio...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Use the calendar on the work order or ticket as the SLA calculation calendar

When an SLA is applied to a ticket or workorder the calculation calendar should be optionally derived from the ticket or work order using the existing fields CALCORGID, CALCCALENDAR, CALCSHIFT. If all three fields have a value then use these inste...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Discard auto fill for asset field when newly creating PM work order against location

We are using MAS 8.7 and currently for any Work Order generated from PM, if the PM has only Location associated and that Location has single Asset then that Asset is copied to the Work Order. If the PM has multiple Assets within hierarchy then Par...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Create centralised process to create BINNUM for inventory balances

It would be nice to have a central repository to create and connect BINNUM to storerooms. In most warehouses there is a fixed physicaly rack system so having the BINNUM set up against the storeroom ensures uniformity of structure. If the BINNUM ob...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration

Improve performance on adding job plans with a high number of tasks to workorders

I have a customer who has multiple jobplans that have a high number of tasks (>100 tasks). Whenever such a task is added to a workorder the user will need to wait for the system to have processed all these tasks until she/he can continue workin...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Future consideration