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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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Preventative Maintenance should inherit Active status' for PM's that are inactive and tied to an asset that has been made active again.

Reactivating PM's after an asset was made active again is currently a manual process and runs the risk of a PM not getting set to active. Thus causing a missed PM or CAL on an asset.
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 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...
almost 9 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

Maximo - work order tracking>Actuals>Labor approval from work order tracking screen via an approval button/Selection by individual line or all on actuals >Labor tab in work order tracking and/or a link to labor reporting to approve the work orders labor then return to work order tracking screen.

Maximo - work order tracking>Actuals>Labor approval from work order tracking screen via an approval button/Selection by individual line or all on actuals >Labor tab in work order tracking and/or a link to labor reporting to approve the wo...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Enabling the Object Structure authentication for all Object structures instead of granting an access to individual object structure

This idea is proposing with regards to the existing SRE case : TS013640568 Mahammad Usman Shaik (Customer) Jul 26, 2023, 13:39 we had the Map loading issue(Error 400) in Maximo 7.6.1.3 environment. However issue has been fixed in UAT environment w...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Not under consideration

Would like a way to move a set of locations and assets from one site to another

We are finding at times a location may change its maximo site designation. In these instances we would like a way to move/transfer the location and assets to another site. It, would be nice if the routine gave options to move the metadata(WOs etc)...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 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...
over 6 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 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 ...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Planned for future release

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).
almost 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 3 Not under consideration

Master PMs - should be able to standardize all the fields in a PM

We create a master template to be able to standardize and speed up the process. However, not all the fields in a PM are available on the Master PM, so each PM still requires a fair amount of editing before making active. For example, the 3 frequen...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration