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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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Track Bin Size and Physical Location in Storeroom

Inventory plays a critical role in Maximo operations. Today it's not possible to visualize where bins are located in the storeroom. It's also not possible to track the dimensions of the bins or of the items so a storeroom clerk has to know where t...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

Ability to search on more than one attribute

Our users are asking for better ways for them to get information out of Maximo without having to request reports from our admin team. While documenting and training the users on the Attribute Search query in Work Order Tracking I noted you cannot ...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

Connect to database using OLEDB provider

Hello, we are in the process of upgrading from 7612 to MAS. Our BI platform connects to the database using BD2 with OLE DB provider. Currently that option is not supported by MAS. This is a serious/critical compatibility requirement. Best regards,
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Add Ability to Select 23:59:59 on the Date/Time Popup Dialog

Users often have a requirement to search using dates and times based on the end of a day and want to be able to easily choose the time 23:59:59 on the date/time popup. This is also useful when entering date/time parameters for reports. Is it possi...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 9 Not under consideration

MAS Manage - Report Data availability in single sheet for xlsx format on download

For any BIRT Report having multiple pages in Maximo Manage, the data is also being split into Multiple Sheets in the excel if we are downloading using XLSX format after executing the Report in browser. Since many of the Users are using the xlsx ve...
11 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Restore capability to read logs from all Appenders in MAS

There is no way to get access to logs Appenders (Rolling and any custom appender). MAS allows reading only the Console appender (System.out) via S3 buckets. The option to read all appenders existed in Maximo 7.6.x. Please restore capability to rea...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

in workflow, generally allow Action Lines to be positive or negative

The goal of this RFE is to show that workflow should allow negative Action Lines anywhere that positive Action Lines are used, with the noted exception that Subprocess and Condition nodes should still require one positive and one negative Action L...
over 7 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

Provide PM Option to Calculate Next Due Date from Last Completion Date of a Different PM

Currently, Maximo provides the option to calculate the PM next due date based on the frequency criteria and either the last completion date or last start date of the same PM. We have a common requirement to set the due date of one PM based on the ...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 3 Not under consideration

Allow asynchroneous processing for publish channels

When there are publish channels attached to an object in Maximo, system would run all logic in relevant user exists / filters / processing classes in the same thread where save() on the object was called. If outbound processing is complex, this ca...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 1 Not under consideration

Stop auto-approving material, tools and services cost transactions

Currently, Maximo auto-approves a transaction when material, tools or services are entered. If a user makes a mistake when entering a cost, there's no way to fix the error before the transaction is approved. The only way to rectify this is to put ...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration