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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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Maximo Print Attachments from WO containing secure https links from Content Server

If you select an WO and try to direct print with attachment(s) linked to https or http sharepoint sites, such as Content Server, that require credential authentication, direct print will fail due to credential are null. "Error:SERRORReport failed ...
2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Reporting 6 Future consideration

Support for text search on description fields

We are currently in process of upgrading our Maximo application from 7.6.1.3 to MAS 9 (IBM DB2) and we thought the below could be an issue for end users: Text searches produce faster search responses than wildcard searches. Fields that are text-se...
about 1 month ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

New Action/Dialog - Swap Asset added to Work Order Tracking

You can swap an asset in Work Order Tracking using the Move/Swap/Modify action, but it is a very complex dialog, perhaps the most complex one in Maximo. The ability to swap the current asset with another and identify the location where the old ass...
about 1 month ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Reports in Cognos continue to function even if the user in Maximo is inactive.

When a user is deactivated in Maximo Flota 7.6, the scheduled reports that the user has continue to run. Ideally, when deactivating a user, the Cognos reports and scheduled reports should also be deactivated, so that the operation does not have to...
about 2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration

Let us return response code with Custom Script Handlers

Maximo supports api calls to a custom script handler as described https://ibm-maximo-dev.github.io/maximo-autoscript-documentation/rest/scripthandler While we can give custom response body, we cannot change the response code.Adding this will great...
6 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 0 Future consideration

MAS Manage - Automatic Authentication to Cognos Analytics

Nowadays is required the user to connect first into Cognos Analytics application, keep the Cognos Analytics tab opened to run any Cognos report from any application. The idea is to Cognos works the same as Maximo 7.6.1.x where there is no need to ...
5 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Enhance multi-language settings for the Description field on SR classification

Context: We are a bilingual institution where our users work both in English (EN) and in French (FR). In our system, the base language is EN and the secondary language is FR – please note a descent part of our users will have default language set ...
2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Set or modify e-signature key cannot be removed from user profile

The client wants to block users from altering their E-Signature Values. Even when the option is disabled in Application Auth we can still see the Menu option.
23 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

LDAP synchronization - option to configure change length of attributes

During LDAP synchronization process we observe error users. We found out the reason and in the future release we would like to have an option to manually set length of attributes. Currently there is no option to modify attributes length to synchro...
about 2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 0 Future consideration

User Impersonation

There are two scenarios we currently face where user impersonation could help greatly. Scenario 1: Maximo Administrator is trying to configure security for a new user. After the maxadmin finishes setting up the security, provide a "View Maximo as ...
8 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 4 Future consideration