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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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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

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

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

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

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

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 ...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Object launch point default event should be "Save"

Object launch points: The default event should be "Save", not "Initialize Value". Reason: "Save" is most commonly used. https://i.stack.imgur.com/m0nUC.png
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 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

MAM Integration with Version Control

Just an idea flew into my mind so thought of sharing with you. So far in all versions of Maximo, I have not seen any module or interface which allows user or automates Configuration files backup and verson. I have seen Clients using 3rd party tool...
over 12 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

Duplicating an ad-hoc report: Need to enable the Share/Public field

Scenario: I have a shared/public ad-hoc report that I've duplicated via the Duplicate action in the Report Administration application.When I look at the ad-hoc report configuration by editing the report, I see that the report isn't flagged as Shar...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Future consideration