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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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Object Structures - There should be a way of seeing which applications, security templates and security groups use the object structure.

When looking at Security Groups and receiving a message to say that you don't have access to an object, finding the security template to apply is difficult. For example, when you receive message BMXAA0024E - The action READ is not allowed on objec...
6 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Allow Count Cycles for Rotating Items to be managed using combination of Count Books and Inventory physical count dates.

Take the most recent (last count date) in the Count Date (COUNTBOOKLINE.PHYSCNTDATE) field from Count Books record for a rotating item and populate this date in the Physical Count Date (INVBALANCES.PHYSCNTDATE) field on the Inventory record for th...
about 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 2 Not under consideration

Next PM indicator - "no data"

1> when there is an exclamation point, message only says "no data" - can we have additional info of why doesn't meet criteria to show?2> the Asset (MA3004) has a PM, but it's a calibration not PM type.
about 1 month ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Needs more information

Inventory Issues and Transfers --> Ability to jump to work order when issuing from the issues RBA.

Currently there is no way to search for or "select" a WO -- user has to know the value
about 1 month ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

PO to NOT default to STD but to be blank and required so user has to choose PO type

Purchase Order Requests --> Would like purchase order type on a manually created PO to NOT default to STD but to be blank and required so user has to choose PO type based on the need of the request.
about 1 month ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

For Oracle databases, change use_stored_outlines to SQL plan management.

The stored outlines functionality has been deprecated by Oracle, and the recommendation is to move to SQL plan management: https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/19/sqlrf/CREATE-OUTLINE.html

Allow One or More Designated Putaway Bins

We would like to have one or more designated putaway bins with the following associated logic: Optionally, automatically create an inventory usage record for transfer to the default bin upon receipt to the putaway bin Streamline transfer to the de...
7 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 0 Future consideration

Option to override the sendEmail function in the MXServer class with an automation script so we can implement secure mail using for instance Microsoft Graph.

Companies are increasingly implementing more stringent security policies and normal smtp mail is getting more and more restricted or even banned. To be able to implement customer specific mechanisms for sending email (or messages to be more genera...
2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Under review

Introduce an organization-level setting to consolidate all material needs into a single inventory usage document for work orders with multiple tasks

Current Behavior: When creating a work order with tasks under the Plans tab and associating materials with these tasks, the system currently handles inventory usage as follows: If materials are not linked to any task, all material needs are consol...
2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Dark Mode for Maximo

Helpful to avoid eye strain. Improve productivity.
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Not under consideration