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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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variable assignments in autoscripts should logged at the TRACE level

I believe it is good practice for automation scripts to log approximately 1 message at the INFO level per execution -- just enough to give a support person a clue that the script is running and that it did something. In addition to that, a script ...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 4 Future consideration

The Global Binding Value for literal autoscript variables should allow nulls

For automation script variables of Binding Type LITERAL, the Binding Value needs to be permitted to be left blank / null. This will allow developers to make Variables optional and will not require them to craft garbage data, like "N/A", for their ...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Future consideration

Update Oracle Adapter to support receipt of distributed cost POLINEs

Both applications understand distributed costs, but the adapter does not recognize the transaction. It is listed as unsupported by Maximo on page 107 of the current guide. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSLKT6_7.6.0/com.ibm.meaora.doc/pdf_meaora_sag...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

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

Honor crossover domain when creating WO from PM/JP/Route

Currently, Maximo doesn't utilize crossover domains when creating a WO from a PM (the PM includes a JP and a Route). It would be helpful if Maximo could be enhanced so that crossover domains are honored in that scenario.
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 3 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

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

Allow for the deletion of the last remain line on a PO with a revision created by the MIF using IFace tables.

Currently when POs are revised with the MIF, Maximo does not allow the deletion of the last line. Since PO revisions are handled by the MIF as lines in the incoming revision are compared against current lines, it is assumed that if a PO comes in w...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 0 Future consideration

Track the last run time of queries in Maximo

We have hundreds of public and private queries that need to be cleaned up. We'd like maximo to record the last run time of each query so we can easily identify queries that have not been used for an extended period that can be removed.
over 11 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 3 Future consideration