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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 22, 2023

Maximo - Enhanced Auditing

The audit functionality in our version of Maximo (v7.6.1.1) is extremely limited. We have had to build our own custom functionality and feel that this would be a globally-desired auditing solution and would benefit from IBM development into an out-the-box, optimised feature.

Currently the audit functionality appears as the text example below, where fields are individual columns.

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EAUDITTIMESTAMP | EAUDITUSERNAME | field1 | field2 | field3

21 Aug 23 | Kyran Hill | kyran | 25 | pancakes

22 Aug 23 | Waheed Mahmud | waheed | 99 | bread
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To meet our audit needs at Rolls-Royce plc we have enhanced the audit capability to allow for unique records for field changes, see below.

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EAUDITTIMESTAMP  | EAUDITUSERNAME | Field | Old Value | New Value
21 Aug 23 | Kyran Hill | field1 | NULL | kyran
21 Aug 23 | Kyran Hill | field2 | NULL | 25
21 Aug 23 | Kyran Hill | field3 | NULL | pancakes
22 Aug 23 | Waheed Mahmud | field1 | kyran | waheed
22 Aug 23 | Waheed Mahmud | field2 | 25 | 99
22 Aug 23 | Waheed Mahmud | field3 | pancakes | bread

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Is this something IBM would be interested in developing for an upcoming release? We would be happy to share our solutions if desired. We are also on-plan to start upgrading all our instances to v8.10+ at some point in the next 6 months and would be really keen to be active contributors to the growing IBM MAS + Manage solutions as we progress forwards.

Idea priority Medium
Needed By Quarter