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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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Open Filter on System Properties Application by default

Opening the System Properties starts with focus and selction of the first description in the list. I always have to open the fileter pane to start finding the propery that i want to check or change.
6 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Make Rich Text fields' font by default bigger

All users report that they cant read whats written in any rich text field. We understand that it can be changed by the user, however, by default, it should be at least the same size as other fields.
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Provide PM Option to Calculate Next Due Date from Last Completion Date of a Different PM

Currently, Maximo provides the option to calculate the PM next due date based on the frequency criteria and either the last completion date or last start date of the same PM. We have a common requirement to set the due date of one PM based on the ...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 3 Not under consideration

Mass Update all Item Spec values when the ALN or NUM Value for the Classification/Attribute is updated

Mass Update all Item Spec values when the ALN or NUM Value for the Classification/Attribute is updated. This is similar in concept to having a default value associated to a field OR similiar to Master PMs where an update to the Master PM can be pu...
almost 11 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 4 Not under consideration

Allow asynchroneous processing for publish channels

When there are publish channels attached to an object in Maximo, system would run all logic in relevant user exists / filters / processing classes in the same thread where save() on the object was called. If outbound processing is complex, this ca...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 1 Not under consideration

Automatically Generate the "Current Schedule" when Loading Depreciation and Depreciation Schedules using MIF

When creating depreciation for an asset manually in Maximo, the current depreciation schedule generates automatically after entering the pertinent depreciation and depreciation schedule information. Subsequently the value of the asset is reflected...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Email header overrides

We have users in our Maximo environment with external email addresses. When sent via our internal mail server these fail DMARC validation and get rejected as spam. We are requesting the ability to override the outbound email headers to avoid email...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

Connect to database using OLEDB provider

Hello, we are in the process of upgrading from 7612 to MAS. Our BI platform connects to the database using BD2 with OLE DB provider. Currently that option is not supported by MAS. This is a serious/critical compatibility requirement. Best regards,
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Add Ability to Select 23:59:59 on the Date/Time Popup Dialog

Users often have a requirement to search using dates and times based on the end of a day and want to be able to easily choose the time 23:59:59 on the date/time popup. This is also useful when entering date/time parameters for reports. Is it possi...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 9 Not under consideration

Stop auto-approving material, tools and services cost transactions

Currently, Maximo auto-approves a transaction when material, tools or services are entered. If a user makes a mistake when entering a cost, there's no way to fix the error before the transaction is approved. The only way to rectify this is to put ...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration