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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against the products and services belonging to IBM Sustainability Software. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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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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Condition Monitoring Work Order Generation should work the same way as it does for the Cron Task LinearMeasurementWoGenCronTask to eliminate the inconsistency

Maximo Linear allows you to record multiple Gauge or Characteristics meter readings (measurements or observations) taken over a short duration of time. Some of these meter readings may be over the action limits. When using the action Generate Work...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Linear 0 Planned for future release

list download issue

When downloading a list from the work order application, HTML tags appear in excel. Hopefully the HTML tag doesn't appear.
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Add a property or control to constrain/control the upload of large image files in Maximo rich text fields

It is possible to break the ability of the Maximo / TPAE front-end to realistically display an image in a rich text long description field if the image is too large. For example, download file https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/tiff/PIA23867.tif Op...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Not under consideration

Allowed file attachments property for email listener

Email listener to remove attachments that are not listed in the allowedFileExtensions property.We have removed html and xml files from mxe.doclink.doctypes.allowedFileExtensions This now = "pdf,zip,txt,doc,docx,dwg,gif,jpg,csv,xls,xlsx,ppt,xsl,bmp...
about 6 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

Update launch from KPI Portlet/Related KPI Link - Change from KPI Manager to KPI Viewer

A wide variety of roles may have the KPI Portlet(s) on their Start Center. Often - they may need to drill down/launch to a related KPI as they investigate a KPI's performance. Currently, this launch takes the user to the KPI Manager application. T...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Allow filtering by other attributes than CRAFT when assigning Work to Labor in Assignment Manager

Other fields that are on both Labor and Work order need to be available for selection for filtering in Assignment Manager. Not all organizations use Craft, and this woould provide a great deal more flexibility.
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

Add Topology Viewer in Maximo AM

Volkswagen / Germany needs the Topology Viewer functionality back again, It was available under previous Maximo versions (<= 7.6.0.5), but is gone with higher FPs.
about 6 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Not able to receive remaining items againt the PO line having GL account expired and not able to approve the PO

We are not able to receive remaining item quantity against PO after the GL account on that particular line was expired/deactivated .Some of the items were received when the GL was active.Maximo does not allow to approve PO if it has some other lin...
over 6 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 2 Not under consideration

Adding Multiple delegates for single person record

Service requests approvals are triggered to Department managers who are typically EVP, SVP, VP & Sr Directors by designations. So, approvers are requesting delegation of approval to Operations manager/Director at country level/Department lev...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Linear - Create Static Linear Meters

There is currently no control to say that a meter on a linear asset is at a fixed location, meter readings can be taken at any measurement along the linear asset, or the meter reading is associated with a fixed asset. There are cases where you wa...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration