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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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MAS autogenerated userid

Automated userid needed - issue for this particular client is that they have contractors and staff, and also don’t want to user first name, last name or email due to data retention policies, hence the ask for Maximo to generate an ID.
about 2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 3 Planned for future release

Change Field order in Inspection Form

When editing an inspection question it is only possible to add nieuw fields at the end, the sequence is set automaticaly. User then only can delete some questions and regnerate them in right order, losing any Condtions on the field.
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Grid-Based Viewer for Images

There are multiple uses for a grid-based view of images that are either added to imglib or added as attachments to work orders. Images in imglib could be used for visual search to allow users to identify items in inventory or assets that match the...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 2 Future consideration

For Oracle databases, change use_stored_outlines to SQL plan management.

The stored outlines functionality has been deprecated by Oracle, and the recommendation is to move to SQL plan management: https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/19/sqlrf/CREATE-OUTLINE.html

Allow Users to Bookmark Queries

As an adjunct to idea MASM-I-313, users would like to have the ability to bookmark queries to be added to a Favorites list. Currently, users have visibility to all public queries which can include many queries that are irrelevant to the particular...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 2 Not under consideration

Email listener MS GRAPH API support

Maximo currently relies on IMAP for email listeners. IMAP is still supported by Microsoft with OUATH for authentication, but it is a legacy protocol. Few organizations have stopped enabling IMAP for mailboxes. Hence, it would be great if support f...
about 1 month ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Under review

Object Structures - There should be a way of seeing which applications, security templates and security groups use the object structure.

When looking at Security Groups and receiving a message to say that you don't have access to an object, finding the security template to apply is difficult. For example, when you receive message BMXAA0024E - The action READ is not allowed on objec...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

VET Change one line in the WOMaterialStatusUpdateCronTask crontask so problems with the process can be identified much quicker

Modify the code to change the error message that is logged Current code in the IBM crontask /* 174 */ getCronTaskLogger().error( "WOMaterialStatusUpdateCronTask encountered a error." , e ); Requested change. /* 174 */ getCronTaskLogger().error( "W...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Functionality to combine the PMWOGEN instance-based log separation with a daily log rotation

There is a requirement to have separate logs for PM WOGEN cron task instances that generate WOs of various types or for various departments. There is also a requirement to rotate those logs daily. Current Maximo OOB functionality does not allow th...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

Hierarchical Query support for DB2

Many hierarchies are created in Maximo. Asset, locations, classifications, item assembly structure, etc. It is useful and efficient to be able to generate hierarchical queries in the database.
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 2 Not under consideration