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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 ideas

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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Allow filtering on lists like Conditional UI Properties (non-db lists)

It would be helpful if we could filter on lists like the Conditional UI Properties window: https://i.stack.imgur.com/m8cj5.png I know lists like that aren't stored in database tables. For example, Conditional UI Properties is a non-persistent MBO;...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Classify Automation Scripts

Idea - Disable Automation Scripts in one click. https://ibm-ai-apps.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/MASM-I-942 This idea extends the above to include some classification for Automation Scripts so the client could choose to just disable specific groups dependi...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Disable Automation Scripts/ Launch points in one click

When working on a reproduction of error in Maximo, to be able to ascertain that the error is not produced by any added automation, it is necessary to disable Automation Scripts and Launch Points to ensure that the issue is reproduced with “out of ...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Migration Manager packages and DBC files: Admin mode/restart is required for non-structural changes

For Migration Manager packages and DBC files: Admin mode/restarting is required for non-structural changes. It would be helpful if non-structural changes were easier -- i.e. don't require admin mode and a restart.
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Exporting CSV data from report: Export report labels instead of DB column names

Users export CSV data from reports. When Maximo exports the data to CSV, the DB column names are used as the CSV column headers, instead of the report labels. It would be helpful if there were a way to export the report labels instead: https://i.s...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Make the default SEARCH TYPE for custom attributes be EXACT

When creating a custom object in db config, i.e. an imported view, the Search Type is automatically set to is NONE: https://i.stack.imgur.com/fRIaN.png (imported view; config changes not yet applied) For custom attributes, it would be better if th...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 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...
about 12 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

'Get Value' action type

In an escalation/action: It would be handy if there were a way to get a value (via an autoscript, etc.) and return the value as a variable to the escalation's SQL condition. For example, an action & automation script could be used to get the v...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Future consideration

Add Reservation type to Job plan

It would be useful to add the same reservation type drop down to job plan planned materials. This way, you could nominated items as SOFT so that when it is a work order, the planned SOFT materials are available as a reference but do not force item...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Future consideration

Create custom table or view object without db config

We can enable(create) audit tables without needing a db config outage. If that's the case, then why do we need db config to create a custom table/view? Aren't the two scenarios similar? I would think a custom table/view would be low risk. It seems...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration