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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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BIRT and Cognos last scheduled report output file execution accessible from ICD

Will be very helpful for the user experience and operations of ICD that scheduled reports have an additional delivery method (besides sending it by email) that could allow left access to the resulting report (the reported all-ready executed) from ...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration

Add downtime reporting to Locations

Users need the ability to track downtime for a functional system in addition to individual assets. The concept of functional locations allows asset management personnel to use Maximo locations to serve as functional nodes in processes, since downt...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration

Enable help text in Bulletin Board only when accessibility mode is on

In every Maximo application, a help text is shown above every table, when system property webclient.accessibilitymode is set to "true" and not shown, when webclient.accessibilitymode is set to "false". But in Bulletin Board portlet and Bulletin Bo...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration

stop/pause the MEA MDB when entering admin mode

Add the capability to automatically switch off the MIF MDB when the administrator puts Maximo servers go into admin mode. WebSphere 7 allows MDBs to be pausedper application programmatically so it appears there is an API that can be used to provid...
almost 13 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 2 Not under consideration

Possible to have Maximo name the PDF of PO report with the PO number

we have received requests if it is possible that the PDF of POs are automatically named with the PO-number? Currently our users create PDFs through the preview function of a report and then either Print report or Export report button to create PDF...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Not under consideration

Display in HH.MM format

IAF wants to review hour based meter readings in HH.MM format. This is not possible in current application. Data storage perspective this value could still be stored in decimals but display should always be (may be an option coulde be given) in HH...
over 10 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

Material being issued to the incorrect GL Account

-Material being issued to the incorrect GL Account, the tasks or child work orders should use the GL Account at approval not the GL when the work order is created. in our case planned materials when they are associated to a planned materials and a...
almost 8 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

Provide warning message during asset location move impacting over 100 asset locations.

All sites using assets with locations (see Abbott Maximo Production Log issue# 486)
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Future consideration

Selecting predecessor in job plan should show all tasks even if filter function was used before

Is:If you are working with a job plan that has for example 65 tasks and then use the filter function, you get a good overview on the related tasks. That's what are filters for and it saves time when you are working with them. But when you then sel...
almost 8 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Request Number gets wiped out from WPITEM when WO is unapproved after issuing material storeroom

Request Number gets wiped out from WPITEM when the WO is unapproved even after the issuance of the material from the storeroom. This should not happen as it breaks the link between INVUSELINE and WPITEM.
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration