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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM MAS - Manage (Base)
Categories System Admin Config/Security
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 7, 2021

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Temporary field/table to avoid immediate outage

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It's frustrating that we can't make small changes to custom fields/tables without needing an admin mode outage.

Is there a way to make things easier?

For example, if I wanted to add a custom field to CLASSSTRUCTURE, could Maximo do the following?

  • Create a temporary table with a ID column and the custom column that I want to add.

  • Maximo would provide a mechanism where we could temporarily use the table as if it were a column in CLASSSTRUCTURE.

  • As mentioned, this would just be a temporary mechanism, but Maximo would still honor the data in the temporary table. At least, at a minimal level -- as in, let us use the custom field in the detail tab in application designer.

  • Then, approx. 2 weeks later, during scheduled maintenance, the temporary mechanism would be migrated to a proper CLASSSTRUCTURE field. And the temporary table/mechanism would be deleted.

Would something like that be possible? Thanks.

Idea priority Medium
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