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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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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

PM Seasonal Dates - Holiday Days

When generating work orders many organizations will not want work orders to be generated on public holidays. This could be handled with a reference to a calendar (without shift) where the dates have been provided by the action Define/Apply Non-Wor...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration

Job Plan Work Assets to reference an Asset Template

Job Plan Work Assets are used to filter Job Plans on the Work Order Tracking application. Currently this is by Asset, Location or Item, the Item here is referring to rotating items and will pull in to the filtered list of job plans assets (or loca...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 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

Develop a way to secure service integration bus in Websphere to work with the MAXIMO Integration Framework

According to the IBM WebSphere Traditional V9.x Security Technical Implementation Guide rule id : SV-95915r1_rule to be DOD compliant the service integration bus in the WebSphere Application Server must be secured. In the setting up of the maximo ...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under 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

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

Email report based on condition? (i.e. record count)

I want to schedule a report so that it only emails the recipients if a condition is met (i.e. based on record count) For example, if a certain report returns records, then email me the report. I don't need the report to be emailed out if the repor...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Future consideration

Determine if a user session is Anywhere or Desktop (MAM/MAS)

We need a way to determine if a user session is Anywhere or Desktop. Reasons: Managing licensing Security Troubleshooting Related: Determine what users are connected to Anywhere?
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Future consideration

Create custom dialogs via Application Designer UI

Rumor has it that Control Desk has a way to create custom dialogs from the UI in Application Designer. Can we get that functionality in core Maximo too? It would be a lot easier to create dialogs in Application Designer, compared to doing it in XM...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration