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System Admin Config/Security

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Enable customers to control the 2 digit year used in SimpleDateFormat

There are many date fields in Maximo, each of which go through a process to convert the string value into a date value using Java's SimpleDateFormat. This introduces sometimes undesirable behavior by the platform because the year field is a 2-digi...
9 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Option to override the sendEmail function in the MXServer class with an automation script so we can implement secure mail using for instance Microsoft Graph.

Companies are increasingly implementing more stringent security policies and normal smtp mail is getting more and more restricted or even banned. To be able to implement customer specific mechanisms for sending email (or messages to be more genera...
7 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Submitted

Overhaul QUERY management in Maximo Manage

Hello, This idea will be useful to both Manage users and administrators alike and tries to address several current pain points around the QUERY functionality in Maximo Manage. There is a Community Post about a newly added behavior with MAS Manage ...
about 2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Future consideration

Add server name for the JVMs in MMI application

When servers are bundled in separate bundles they all have the same server name e.g. MXServer. Problems are: 1. In Manage Monitoring Information => we cannot see the difference between the server bundle JVMs, because they are all referenced as ...
about 1 month ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Under review

MAS autogenerated userid

Automated userid needed - issue for this particular client is that they have contractors and staff, and also don’t want to user first name, last name or email due to data retention policies, hence the ask for Maximo to generate an ID.
16 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 3 Planned for future release

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 ...
3 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 3 Future consideration

Git integration for automation scripts

our Java customization is stored and code versioned in git repositories. pushing changes and maintain traceability is standard. when it comes to automation scripts ( IBM new preferred modifications ) we're loosing those capabilities: modify things...
6 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Implement public query validation and approval process

Implement an approval process for public queries. I specialise in troubleshooting performance problems. I have seen user generated public queries dramatically reduce the performance of a system because they are inefficient... And often the user is...
2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Ability to send a notification before an APIKEY expires

In a recent demonstration of Manage to Siemens Energy the question was asked if an APIKEY in Maximo can be set to expire in, say, 90 days. The answer is yes. The follow up question was how do you notify a sys admin that a key is about to expire. T...
14 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Submitted

Data replication solution for remote/offshore customers

The industry in general needs the IBM team to look at a rule-based replication solution for customers with remote/offshore installations. Currently, commercially available solutions are untested for MAS8. Without a proven replication solution, cus...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Future consideration