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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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Centralized setting to ensure Maximo reuse existing PO's to the fullest

Centralized setting to ensure Maximo reuse existing PO's to the fullest. I.e. when new costs appear on a WO, Maximo search for an existing PO, does a revision and add the new costs to that PO. Being an (almost) administrative organization having c...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Supply Chain 1 Not under consideration

Introducing WO templates​ to support user's easiness in creating manual work orders

Introducing WO templates​ * Per role / per user​ containing - Operation area​ - GL account from the Asset (based on Operation Area)​ - Vendor​ - Asset Operation Manager​ - Vendor’s responsible​ * Holds most used data (or favorite data) seen f...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Allow the ability to create index's through the front end that have includes

We would like the ability to create index's with includes in them to Example: CREATE INDEX CUSTOMIX_failurelist_1 ON [dbo].[failurelist] ([parent], [type]) INCLUDE ([failurecode]) We can complete this with help from a DBA but creating the base...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

In all variations of Maximo, when calculating non-persistent attribute CONDITION.REFCOUNT please ignore the archive tables.

Attribute CONDITION.REFCOUNT is non-persistent and dynamically calculates where the condition is used/referenced. It is only possible to delete a condition when REFCOUNT is zero. If audit is enabled (EAUDITENABLED=1) on a table where the a condi...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

Enhancement: if you check Payment on Receipt either in the Companies application or on the PO itself when you receive the PO lines it will automatically create a "WAPPR" invoice rather than an "APRR" invoice.

After receiving line Items from a PO and completing it, when generating the invoice from the "Payment on Receipt" checkbox, the status of the invoice is "WAPPR" by default and therefore it allows finance AP to enter "Vendor Invoice Number" or any ...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

Enhancement: display correct invoice line number on material receipts tab in invoice application.

This will make confusion for finance users who using invoice application. It's better only display related material receipt and variance for each invoice line.
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration

Display the date attribute in all apps that display the specification tab

The background is: In 7612, one development group (not core Maximo) created DATE type for attributes. However, the development was limited to Ticket applications only. If you go to SR, Incident, Problems, and Ticket template applications, they wor...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration

[Copy] JSON Mapping application need to have a dynamic array data type

We are integrating Maximo with ARCGIS for the outbound of data where we are having the JSON Mapping and the message is getting generated but on top the message generated we want to add this static JSON array of "geometry".And when we tried it to s...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration

Request to review Maximo URL passing username and password directly

This is in reference to existing capability of Maximo login in following TechNote http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21443945As per technote Maximo allows connecting directly to StartCenter EVEN when SSL https connection is used . We...
almost 13 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 4 Not under consideration

Would like to make the line cost in the invoiceline distribution costs editable

If you create a new invoice and associate a po on the invoice copy the polines in the Invoice Lines tab, click on the Distribute Costs button, expand to show details the percentage field is editable but the line cost is not editable which causes a...
almost 13 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Not under consideration