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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against the products and services belonging to IBM Sustainability Software. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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IBM MAS - Manage (Base)

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Work Queues should be able to reference attributes from child objects in the object structure

Start Center Results Sets can reference attributes through a relationship. Work Queues cannot be a replacement for a Result Set until the same functionality is provided. Example, a work order work queue cannot reference the description of the loca...
about 14 hours ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Submitted

Relocate or Optimize Popup Messages Blocking User Actions

We are facing an issue where certain popup messages, such as "Record saved" or similar notifications, appear on the screen in green. The problem is that the placement of these messages overlaps with critical action buttons. This prevents users fro...
3 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Submitted

Email listener MS GRAPH API support

Maximo currently relies on IMAP for email listeners. IMAP is still supported by Microsoft with OUATH for authentication, but it is a legacy protocol. Few organizations have stopped enabling IMAP for mailboxes. Hence, it would be great if support f...
2 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Submitted

Dark Mode Theme

Implementing a dark mode would be very useful for this new Maximo platform. I'm sure a good amount are used to it not being so bright. Would be nice to have a toggle added for anyone with sensitive eyes.
12 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Calibration 1 Not under consideration

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...
18 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

Enable Self Service Portal for backflows for MAS environments

Please update the Self Service Portal so that customers can manage their backflows for MAS environments. Opening a ticket for SRE takes 12+ hours before it is eventually run.
3 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Workflow 0 Submitted

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 ...
about 1 month ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Reporting 1 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...
2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 0 Under review

Support printing of attachments that require user authentication

Viewing and printing of Attachments are a very important feature for Corning. Viewing and printing of attachments are used in many of the MAS Manage applications - Assets, Work Order Tracking, Job Plans etc. Several end users make use of the print...
4 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Planned for future release

Default Long Description Fonts to Sans-Serif to Match All Other Default Fonts

All the text boxes in Maximo are using a sans-serif font by default but the long description boxes on new records defaults to serif. This is inconsistent with the rest of Maximo and a change between 7.6.1 and 8.11. One font should be used across t...
about 2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 2 Not under consideration