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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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Include whereclause and parameters in report usage log table

Trackng down the cause of long running reports is one of the most painful tasks in Maximo. It would be extremely helpful if the whereclause being passed into the report was documented in the reportusage log. (It's currently captured temporarily in...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Reporting 0 Future consideration

OSLC Object Passback Token

When creating new records (in particular child records) using autokeys, if multiple children are difficult to identify after creation. For example: POST /maximo/oslc/os/someOS { "description":"a Root object", "child":[{"description":"child 1"},{"d...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 1 Future consideration

Tiered Price Purchase Contract

Add the ability in Purchase Contracts to have tiered pricing for the same item on contract lines. Move this functionality from Maximo for Aviation to core Maximo. This isn't industry specific functionality.
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Future consideration

Volume price contract items to be correctly used when storeroom reorder PR is created (works OK for direct reorder created PR)

Hi Team ,  we would appreciate considering this idea.  In times where majority of stocked items are covered by contracts, this missing functionally makes difficult to use them as the used unitcost on reorder generated PR line could be incorrect. F...
11 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration

Support for Amazon RDS Oracle as a datastore for MAS Manage

Many of the customers are migrating into AWS cloud and would like to take advantage of the AWS Cloud native databases with HA/DR capabilities with High RTO/RPO.
11 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Provide an XLSX export for BIRT reports that does not break into multiple tabs.

Many customers want to export BIRT reports to XLSX. Unfortunately the current xlsx export option places the output across multiple tabs. Please provide a mechanism to turn this off.
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration

Routes should be revision controlled

Request for having revision control on Routes Working with rail or high-power electrical systems, authority audits will be conducted on a regular basis. This is to ensure that Sund & Bælt performs the necessary maintenance by correctly skille...
11 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Future consideration

Support function-based indexes

It would be helpful if Maximo could support function based-indexes. Function based indexes are OOB in databases and are an easy way to pre-compute data for faster performance. https://oracle-base.com/articles/8i/function-based-indexes https://use-...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Allow user to select a Fit To property for PDF when scheduling a report so that reports with many columns will not be cut off on the right side

emailed PDFs will be cut off if the report contains a lot of columns, preventing users from seeing all of their data. We have users experiencing this issue in Maximo 7.6.1
8 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

Allow SQL expressions in Start Center Result Set Color Options Expressions

We have users that would like to use PR/PO/WO date comparisons in a Start Center Result Set to change Color Options in an Expression. For example, if the current date is greater than a week from a PR required date, color it Green, if less than 1 w...
12 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Reporting 0 Future consideration