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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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Allow existing contracts to be associated to a new Master Contract

Business Requirements Within an organization, as some purchasing and contracts shift from a site or branch to global procurement, it becomes necessary to bring various existing contracts under one master contract that can be managed globally. Use ...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Future consideration

Improve Config DB Performance

We have a Maximo database with approximately 5 million workorder records. CONFIGDB is slow when adding multiple YORN fields to large tables. In order to improve Config DB Performance the process should group the updates, rather than running ...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration

Prevent deleting attributes with launch points, or drop launch points when attributes are dropped

Maximo allows administrators and developers to drop custom attributes which have Automation Script Launch Points registered against them -- without even giving a warning. Thus, Maximo can be left with a referential integrity problem, and Integrity...
over 7 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Future consideration

Allow length control of multi-part text boxes

When configuring an application, the multi-part textbox if often the most useful tool to show a related value from a field. However, often one or both of these values are longer than the field. Please add 2 length attributes to the multi-part text...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

We would like to have the uninvoiced quantity field populated on the PO lines

We want to use the POLINE.UNINVOICEDQUANTITY non-persistent field on the PO lines. Currently, this field is only populated on the invoice lines. It would be useful to see it when we are on the PO lines. Steps to reproduce: Create P.O. Add P.O. lin...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 3 Future consideration

Add ‘Default Table Data’ functionality for ‘To Site’ and ‘To Location’ for Inventory Transfer lines in the Inventory Usage app.

Many times transfers are created for multiple lines and when an Inventory Usage record is created to TRANSFER inventory to another Site, the user is required to enter the TOSITE and TOLOCATION for every line of the record. Adding Default Table Da...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

Revise REORDER Calc for tighter control and take Lead Times into consideration.

There are companies ordering and maintaining stock with extra long lead times, and has considerably increased with the advent of COVID.
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 3 Future consideration

Safety roll down from Parent to child locations

Safety like Hazards/Precautions roll down from Parent Location to child location would be very useful. It would be good to have ‘Safety Roll Down’ to child Locations from Parent Locations. Provides a flexible option for business to roll down the ‘...
11 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Future consideration

Provide an option to combine multiple rows of a craft assignment for the same work order into one row.

Provide an option to combine multiple rows of a craft assignment for the same work order into one row and with additional option to indicate in the assignment boxes the work order description, number of resources, name of assigned resources and th...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

Count Books using the Select Type of CNTFREQ should not select items where the Count Frequency is zero

In the Count Books application when the Select Type is set to CNTFREQ I think it safe to ignore items where the Count Frequency (INVENTORY.CCF) is zero which is the default for items. If it is zero, then the item will always be due a count, when t...
9 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Future consideration