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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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Batch-update custom Maximo tables on a schedule

It would be helpful if there were an OOB mechanism that could be used to batch-update custom Maximo tables on a schedule. For example, update a custom WOCOSTROLLUP table each night. Either truncate and reload all rows each time. Or, only merge/upd...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Approve labor actuals right in WOTRACK

It would be helpful if we could approve labor actuals right in WOTRACK. It's not possible to do that, since the "Approved?" checkbox is read-only in WOTRACK. There isn't a way to make the "Approved?" field editable via Application Designer. Screen...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Button to generate list of IDs from List View resultset

In the List View in any MAM application: Click a button that generates a list of IDs from the List View resultset (max 200 records, or whatever is practical): =WO1000, =WO1001, =WO1002, =WO1003 Possible options: Automatically copy the list to the ...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Make the "Go To Activities and Tasks" button more visible

It would be helpful if IBM could make this button more visible: "WOTRACK-->Task-->Go To Activities and Tasks" Screenshot: https://i.stack.imgur.com/H0UOx.png We didn't know about that button/functionality until recently -- because it was tuc...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration

Asynchronous automation scripts: Provide a Python example

Regarding Asynchronous automation scripts documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/mam/7.6.1.2?topic=tasks-adding-scripts-that-run-as-asynchronous-jobs The example in the docs is an MBR script. It would be helpful if a Python example could be pr...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Start/Stop timer for tasks

In WOTRACK and Quick reporting: It would be helpful if there were a start/stop timer for tasks that workers could use to easily start and stop their task labor actuals (with the click of a button). It would be more efficient to use a timer than ma...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Option to increase undo timeout for work centers

The timeout for a requester to undo a cancellation of a Service Request after submitting a request using Work Center is only about 5 seconds. This is very short for a person to realize they need to click on that undo icon before the timeout is ove...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 3 Not under consideration

Batch-edit custom fields via expression

It would be helpful if we could batch-edit custom fields via an expression from within a Maximo application. The functionality could be like the Change Status action/window (supports bulk edits), but lets administrators choose the custom field and...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Ad-hoc report window: Indicate ROS name via mouseover

It would be helpful if the ROS name could be indicated in the ad-hoc report window -- so that Maximo admins could easily know the ROS name and find that ROS in the Object Structures application. Currently, only the ROS description is indicated in ...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Delete obsolete fields from LOCATIONS table

There are obsolete persistent fields in the LOCATIONS table like: GISPARAM1, GISPARAM2, GISPARAM3 The documentation says: "Unused attributes. Will be removed in a future release." https://bportaluri.com/wp-content/MaximoJavaDocs76/psdi/app/locatio...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Not under consideration