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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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Exclude records from Report Object Structure

Need a way to exclude records from object structures for the purpose of ad-hoc reports. For example, exclude tasks from a WO ad-hoc report. More info here: Exclude rows from object structures via WHERE clause
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

installing Mas Manage with SQL Server on one Openshift Cluster using Ansible collection

We are using this documentation for our installation of MAS8 and Maximo Manage https://ibm-mas.github.io/ansible-devops/ We need to deploy MAS Manage with SQL Server Database for our open shift cluster (hosted on azure cloud) The automated manner ...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

IntelliSense for automation scripts

It would be helpful if IBM could implement IntelliSense-like functionality for automation scripts. - Even if it could just provide a pick-list of the methods that are available in an mbo or in a service. That would go a long way. - Or alternativel...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Environment name bind variable (&ENVNAME&)

It would be helpful if IBM could add a new &ENVNAME& bind variable. - i.e. the Maximo environment name -- like PRD, TST, TRN, etc. - Not the same thing as the existing &HOSTNAME& variable. Example use case: Use an environment name ...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Use object formula as "dynamic non­-persistent attribute" in Application Designer

We should be able to use object formulas as "dynamic non­-persistent attributes" in Application Designer. Just like we can do with the REST API – use an object formula directly, without the need to create a persistent or non-persistent field (requ...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Not under consideration

Authorize Group Reassignment: Add a system property to disable

Regarding the Authorize Group Reassignment functionality in Maximo: Organizations that only allow a few admins to make changes in the Security Groups application don't benefit from from this functionality. Instead, it just becomes a nuisance. Coul...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Add the ability to duplicate Inventory Usage

When Maximo is used in used for Supply Chain management to support repeating and similar exercises and activities, that utilize repeating shipments with only minor variations, there is a need to be able to duplicate Inventory Usage in the same man...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 2 Future consideration

Allow drag-and-drop to add multiple attachments

Our users attach many files to invoices, defects, work orders, etc. The latest update applied allows the user to do a multi-select from the file system which has been very well received. An additional piece of functionality has been requested for ...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Ability to open record in a ‘New Tab’ in the browser (right click the record > Open in New Tab).

This is extremely useful in order to open multiple records at the same time and work on them concurrently. It is available in other competitor products, thus, users know what they are missing.
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future 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...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration