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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM MAS - Manage (Base)
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 3, 2021

RELATED IDEAS

Add CHANGEDATE field to all Maximo tables

It would be helpful if we had a field in Maximo tables to indicate the last time the record was changed. This would be useful for troubleshooting technical issues and investigating data integrity problems.


While it is possible to enable Maximo audit tables or add custom fields for this purpose, it's not practical to do that for dozens or hundreds of Maximo tables.

That would take too much time and audit tables would put an unnecessary load on the system. It would be better if this functionality were available OOB as a simple field in the object table.

Additionally, for scenarios when CHANGEDATE information is needed, it's often too late to retroactively enable audit tables or add custom date fields. We need to look back, not forward.


Most enterprise systems have a date field in tables. It's unusual that Maximo doesn't. Having a simple CHAGEDATE field in tables would be really helpful when it comes to managing Maximo data.

Idea priority Medium
Needed By Month
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  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Dec 20, 2023

    This idea should be revisited.

    When someone changes the application XML, a very skinny table MAXPRESENTATION gets updated, and there is no record of that CLOB getting altered at all.

    If you enable auditing, you get... a copy of the CLOB and finally the username and date. However, we really don't need the CLOB data, just the name and date.

    The value of knowing who last touched a record should not even need justification, and I submit that any IBM employee could provide those justifications for all existing tables today. Where, then is the justification for not extending this to all persistent tables that are direcvtly modifiable by a user (regardless of permissions)?

  • Admin
    Kim Woodbury
    Reply
    |     Jan 4, 2023

    Thank you for your submission. There are no plans in the next 18-24 months to introduce this change.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Mar 17, 2022

    Yes, both ChangeDate and ChangeBy are needed together

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 16, 2021

    Agree with the idea of adding both ChangeDate and ChangeBy to all Maximo tables.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Aug 9, 2021

    If a ChangeDate is added, a corresponding ChangeBy should be added as well.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Aug 4, 2021

    if this is implemented then the changeby field needs to be added so support staff can use it to identify who modified the record

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