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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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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

Move public Saved Query object to org/site level rather then global level

Add Org and Siteid to the query object to enable auto-filtering of public queries to the site level: at least workorder tracking, service request applications.
over 11 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Start Center auto refresh

We would like to have an auto refresh functionality in Maximo's start centers
almost 12 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 3 Not under 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

Make public queries tied to SiteID

Currently when a custom query is saved as 'Public' (QUERY.ISPUBLIC = 1), it is viewable by users from any Site or Org. The requested change is when a user saves a custom query in any application, the default insert SiteID (MAXUSER.DEFSITE) should ...
almost 12 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

Mail communication don't trigger if $ symbol is there in ticket long description. BMXAA0259E - The email cannot be sent. null

PROBLEM :Mail communication don't trigger if $ symbol is there in ticket long description.BMXAA0259E - The email cannot be sent. null. STEPS TO REPLICATE :1- Open Maximo as maxadmin2- Go to Service Requests application3- Ensure you have a SR recor...
over 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 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

Safety cross over from Locations to PM/WO

If a Location/ Asset is having safety associated (Hazards), they should be crossed over to transactional applications where the Location/Asset would be associated to. Ex: Location associated to PM, Location associated to Workorder.-- safety shoul...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration

Inspection form sort order

When I specify condition of questionnaire in Inspection form, at answer field selection displayed answer fields is not sorted by questionnaire orders which displayed inspection form definition. Please refer CASE Ticket #TS012408620
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 2 Not under consideration

Ignore mandatory fields when revising job plan

Scenario: I've added a new field to JOBPLAN called WORKTYPE. I've made the field be mandatory in Application designer: https://i.stack.imgur.com/K7Wij.png Problem: When I go to revise an existing job plan, I get an error: "BMXAA4195E - A value is ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration