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PINNED Enable inventory reservation automatic cron task for specific site
Advantage : Enable the cron for specific site which is necessary. Summary: In Maximo, we have more than 50 Active sites. When we try to enable inventory reservation automatic cron task for specific site, There is no Cron Parameters are available....

IBM MAS - Manage (Base)

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Pre-build index on KPI kpimainid, recordedon and kpivalue

We have identified that the most frequently used query in our environment is: select kh.kpivalue, kh.recordedon from kpimain k, kpihistory kh where k.kpimainid = kh.kpimainid and k.kpiname =? order by recordedon desc This query is running very slo...
about 7 hours ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Service Desk 0 Under review

Move the List view button into Application Tab itself instead of keeping it under Side Section

Move the list view button from side section to Tab itself similar to how it was in Maximo 7.6. In Maximo 7.6 when you Minimize the section the List View button would not get hidden and will be still visible.However, in MAS 8 when you Minimize / hi...
about 9 hours ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Under review

Move the next / previous page button back up to the top of the page from the bottom to eliminate scrolling

Moving the next / previous page button back up to the top of the page from the bottom will eliminate the scrolling to bottom of the page. Previously in Maximo 7.6 version this ability was present at the top of the Screen (In Tab Header), and user ...
about 10 hours ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Under review

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...
18 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Under review

Add/Modify button image file extension change

When using the Add/Modify Image button in Item Master it states that the only acceptable file type is .jpg or .gif.. We are looking if we can incorporate jpeg option too. Please find the word document for the steps(Stepstoreproduce) and also the E...
3 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Under review

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...
20 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Under review

Request Number on Planned Materials not set to Null when Reservation for Item deleted.

When a reservation is created for an Item on WO through WO approval , a requestnum gets generated which then reflects in WPITEM and WPMATERIAL .Reservation can be deleted by using Add/Modify Reservation option. On deleting reservation, the WPITEM....
4 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Under review

Add an option to modify white space between table columns to prevent horizontal scrolling

With the new skin of MAS Manage the whitespace between columns is greater than the columns in Maximo 7.6.1.3. With the new skin in MAS Managere many customers complain about the horizontal space needed for tables. If there was an option to change ...
7 days ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 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...
about 1 month ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 0 Future consideration

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 2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Reporting 1 Future consideration