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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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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

Delete custom dialog via Application Designer UI

I have a custom dialog in the Classifications application that I created manually in ASSETCAT.XML (via XML export-->Notepad-->XML import). Screenshot: https://i.stack.imgur.com/67plY.png As mentioned, I did need to create that dialog via XML...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Not under consideration

Conditional lookup in Advanced Search

I have two custom fields in ASSET: - ZONE (1, 2, 3, 4) - SUBZONE (1-1, 1-2, 1-3, 2-1, ...) In the Asset Advanced Search window, I want the SUBZONE field to have a conditional lookup: - If ZONE = 1 , then lookup = 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, ... Currently, it's...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Not under 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

Add a WORKTYPE field to JOBPLAN

It would be helpful if there were a Work Type field in Job Plans. Scenario: I apply a pothole JP directly to WOs. That pothole JP always has the same work type: Corrective Maintenance . So it would make sense to put the work type in the JP. I've n...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Future consideration

DB join fields: Improve the ALT+F1 field help

There are fields in Maximo applications that are related to joins. It would be helpful if the ALT+F1 help for those fields could be improved so that it's clearer what the purpose of those fields is (the joins in question are INNER JOINs): Object S...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 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