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My votes: IBM MAS - Manage (Base)

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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...

Enable a way to set non-persistent attributes in outbound processing classes only when they're requested

In a lot of the outbound definition classes, additional MboSets are established to set a non-persistent field. These should ideally be done via attribute field classes on the non-persistent attribute(s) instead of depending on the outbound definit...
about 22 hours ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 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 ...
21 days 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...
about 1 month ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 0 Under review

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 1 month ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 2 Not under consideration

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.
8 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 3 Planned for future release

Inspection Templates - A dynamic framework for inspection forms

Our client is implementing MAS Manage8 and we've customized the inspection solution (using automation scripts) as per the client's requirement. They have 'templates' for inspections, they are generalized for some asset types and the questions are ...
4 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 3 Planned for future release

Maximo Reports and Schedule pop up window should show an entry after Report is scheduled. Currently you need to close the dialog box and reopen it to see the new schedule.

If you close and reopen the dialog box then Schedule does show up, but it causes additional clicks and duplicate entry. Business is looking for an auto refresh function or at least the refresh icon (like the one we have on List tab of Applications)
20 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 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 ...
25 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Under review

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...
6 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Submitted