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IBM Sustainability Software - Ideas Portal


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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Replace the MAXDEMO database

It would be helpful if IBM could invest in a new MAXDEMO database where the data has actually passed through the MBO business logic and dates are not 30 years old. The existing MAXDEMO data isn't very useful because the data is messy. The demo dat...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 5 Future consideration

Ability to print the pdf copy of the completed Inspection form

Ability to generate PDF report of the Inspection form and results which can be attached to the Work Order as a linked document.Would like to have the same look and feel like the inspection form, also would like to trigger the pdf report from the W...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 6 Future consideration

Export report to XLSX as single table/sheet

Currently, when exporting a report to XLSX, the data gets split into multiple sheets. It would be helpful if there were an option to export to XLSX where the data is all in a single table/sheet. We understand why .pdf format was designed to retain...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Future consideration

Queue SMTP Emails when SMTP Server is Unavailable

There are various scenarios in Maximo where email is sent explicitly from the various MXServer.sendEmail() methods. For example, the PM WOGEN cron task. If the email fails to send to the SMTP server (such as the SMTP server is down) it's gone fore...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Planned for future release

Currently Role Base Inspection "Enter Time" on the inspection form only pops up widget on mobile and not desktop

We have users performing inspections on desktops, IE material receiving, however if you create an inspection form and add a time field, you cannot select a time. I was told this is not a bug by IBM, however "Role-Based" is more designed for mobile...
about 1 month ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Under review

Printing Calibration Decals / Inventory Barcodes

Maximo out of box functionality needed to support label printing for Asset Calibration expiration dates / inventory information for cycle counting/issuing etc.
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Planned for future release

Object Structures should allow a Source Object multiple times

Object Structures need to allow a given Object to appear as a Source Object multiple times. For example, we may want to include the full name, department, primary email address and primary phone number for the Lead, Owner and Supervisor of a Work ...
over 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 0 Future consideration

Start Center Color Alert Expressions need more flexibility

We have many requests for color alerts in the Start Center Portlets across our enterprise Maximo Asset Management. We are currently in Maximo 7.6.1.2. In the Start Center Configuration Tool, Color Alert tab, users would like to be able to use a ca...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Dark Mode for Maximo

Helpful to avoid eye strain. Improve productivity.
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Need ability to ORDER BY in the KPI List portlet

Most every portlet in the start centers offers an order by column. KPI List does not. This forces the users to add numbers to their queries to make it sort right.
8 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Under review