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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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more than one mail SMTP server to send notifications and ability to choose the configured server in communication templates

Some customers require using different SMTP servers with different access configuration and credentials for different proposes. It would be nice to have more than one SMTP servers and choose them in Communication Templates.
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Ability to automatically refresh startcenter resultset and kpi portlets

Multiple customers have requested the functionality to automatically refresh certain startcenter resultset and kpi portlets. This allows them to use the startcenter as a dashboard. A workaround for a general refresh of the page is available but th...
about 12 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

The Routes Path Selector will show a Route Stop with no descriptions or target location when the Path Selector is used to select a target location

If the Path Selector (Linear) is used to select a target location, you will receive an error message “BMXAA3616E – Select an asset or location for this route stop.”. It seems that the original design did not consider that a target location would b...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Linear 0 Future consideration

In Service Requests Role-Based application of Maximo 7.6.1.2, when an attachment present in a service Request is canceled the UNDO popup option comes for a couple of seconds and then vanishes, and the attachment gets deleted without any confirmation.

The undo confirmation popup is only visible for a couple of seconds, as a result there are high chances of it getting missed by the user. If a user clicks on the delete icon by mistake and misses on clicking the undo button the attachment is autom...
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

list download issue

When downloading a list from the work order application, HTML tags appear in excel. Hopefully the HTML tag doesn't appear.
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Add a property or control to constrain/control the upload of large image files in Maximo rich text fields

It is possible to break the ability of the Maximo / TPAE front-end to realistically display an image in a rich text long description field if the image is too large. For example, download file https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/tiff/PIA23867.tif Op...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Not under consideration

Communication Templates for Work Centers

There is a need for a communication template to be created in the Workcenter's module to provide notifications /emails /documents to users and service contractors when Workcenter forms have been completed. Having a communication template developed...
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration

Update Service Requests (SR) tickets Resolution Date

When utilizing a Service Request (SR) ticket and setting the record to the 'RESOLVED' status, Maximo will automatically set the ACTUALFINISH to the date/time the record status is changed to 'RESOLVED'. If the ticket is re-activated, for example th...
over 5 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Service Desk 3 Not under consideration

Populate MRLINE with INVVENDOR information for Service Items

In application Create Requisition when adding a requisition line of type STDSERVICE and specifying an item number and a vendor, the fields Order unit, Unit Cost, Manufacturer, Model and Catalog# are not populated from the most recent invvendor rec...
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Future consideration

Add 'prefix' to Kafka provider properties

When sharing the same Kafka cluster between multiple environments, it is necessary to provide different (unique) topic names for each environment to ensure they are not consuming another environment's data. This is somewhat problematic for the use...
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration