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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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Enhancement to the workflow admin tool

Enhancement to the workflow admin tool in Maximo, so that MaxAdmin better can support end users As an MaxAdmin, I need to have some extra functionality added into the Workflow Admin app, so that I can see which user a workflow is assigned to as we...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Workflow 0 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.
over 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration

Option to not close / comp workorders when assignments are complete

RIght now if all the Assignments for a workorders are changed to COMP, the workorder also automatically changes to COMP or CLOSED depending on which option you set. This is very undesirable because just because the assignments are done doesn't mea...
almost 10 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Future consideration

Use Ticket or Work Order Calendar for Calculating Escalation Point Condition

In Organizations application the SLA Options setting Use Calendar for Calculating Escalation Point Condition doesn't appear to work and it is believed to have never been implemented. The idea behind this seems to be that when creating an escalatio...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Use the calendar on the work order or ticket as the SLA calculation calendar

When an SLA is applied to a ticket or workorder the calculation calendar should be optionally derived from the ticket or work order using the existing fields CALCORGID, CALCCALENDAR, CALCSHIFT. If all three fields have a value then use these inste...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Inventory Re-ordering enhancement

Recently our business users approached us that they'd like to exclude certain inventory condition codes from total inventory balance calculations so re-ordering can be triggered earlier. It will be nice if Maximo Re-ordering Cron task can provide ...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Future consideration

Improve performance on adding job plans with a high number of tasks to workorders

I have a customer who has multiple jobplans that have a high number of tasks (>100 tasks). Whenever such a task is added to a workorder the user will need to wait for the system to have processed all these tasks until she/he can continue workin...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Future consideration

Better control and management of ongoing workorders in case of any delays.

To get better control and management on ongoing work orders in cases when works stop for some reason and to create a way to analyze WHY works stop at field. Currently WO tracking application does not have suitable functionalities for this purpose....
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration