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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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Populating Target Start Date for Meter Based PM Work Orders

The Target Start and Finish dates on a Work Order does not incorporate lead time on work order creation from a meter based PM.
over 9 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 3 Future consideration

Type Ahead hardcoded limit of 10000 should be configurable

Currently the Type Ahead limit is hard coded to 10000 records so we cannot use it effectively on the Locations and Asset fields as we have more than 10000 records. At times users don't find the record in the type ahead thus loosing confidence in t...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 3 Not under consideration

Need the ability to purge mbos and related objects

To keep performance within acceptable parameters and to meet data retention requirements we need the ability to easily remove unneeded tickets (workorders, changes, incidents, problems, etc...) and all associated records (relationships, attachment...
almost 12 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 3 Not under consideration

Work planning/scheduling should consider technician qualification

When trying to select the resource to do a job, this needs to be done at a qualifications level. For example, a Technician may have completed/obtained some of the training and qualifications of a high er level and that person should ultimately be ...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Planned for future release

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.
about 12 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 3 Future consideration

Combine Take Ownership and Stop Workflow Actions

Combine the 'Take Ownership' and 'Stop Workflow' actions into either a new action or in the Take Ownership action for Work Orders in the Work Order Tracking app.
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 2 Not under consideration

Ability to minimize or maximize a section as per user’s preference

As per standard Maximo functionality, option is available to minimize a section within an application by a user to hide the fields that they may not use. Currently users can minimize or maximize the sections and continue working within the applica...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration

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...
over 7 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future 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

Keeping DB Backup for extended period of time (beyond 1 month) automatically.

This is an Ask from our client. It is useful for the below reason: 1. Investigate any data issue by restoring the older backup, if it is not traceable when it was introduced. 2. Restore lower environment with older backup (say 6 month old). 3. Bui...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Future consideration