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IBM Sustainability Software - Ideas Portal


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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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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Developer workspace/environment

Background:With Maximo 7.6.1.x, developers were able to create a local VM on their laptops. This allowed them to work independantly & remotely. In MAS (specifically Manage), the direction is more of working either on a shared instance or each ...
about 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Documentation & Help 3 Delivered

Add support for Azure SQL Managed Instance

Customers using EAM with investments in SQL Server (sort of Microsoft shop) and Azure as preferred cloud are more likely to prefer MAS Manage on Azure with managed database offering during migration. At present, two of the managed database offerin...
11 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 2 Delivered

Request for BIRT 4.8 support in Maximo

Currently Birt version 4.3.1 is the only supported version by Maximo and it uses Java 1.7. This is an ISSO security issue. Java 1.7 is out of date, so using the Report Designer itself in Version 4.3.1 is also a security issue. As of this article h...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 5 Delivered

Create E-Mail Listener integration ability using OAuth that does not require a refresh token

Since Microsoft has declared the legacy Exchange integration capability out of support everyone was forced to move to OAuth technology. Within Maximo IBM has provided a new ability to support this OAuth connection protocol within the E-Mail Listen...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Delivered

MAS Manage - To identify attachments availability in all applications without opening the attachments

The enhancement request is to identify on any application in Maximo Manage, if there are attachments or not by viewing the attachments icon on the screen. Further, can the number of the attachments be displayed just beside the attachment icon so t...
3 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Delivered

Use SQL Server Sequences

Maximo 7.6+ should use SQL Server sequences like Maximo does for Oracle and DB2. Maximo 7.6+ only supports SQL Server 2012 and above, and starting in SQL Server 2012, SQL Server supports sequences (see: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/s...
almost 7 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Delivered

Work Orders (RBA) - The Status ribbon along the top when viewing a work order should finish at Closed status

The status bar seems to indicate that the last status is Comp (completed) when we all know that moving work orders to closed state can be something which tends to lag behind and where maintenance supervisors need constant reminding to close their ...
about 2 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Delivered

Support Automation Scripts as System Actions in REST API

The REST API has the concept of system actions (actions stored in the restsysaction table) that can enable useful functionality that can be used on any object structure. For example, duplicating a record. We find some common use cases (such as sen...
about 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Integration 1 Delivered

add implicit "log" variable to autoscripts, initialized from script or launch point record

Automation Scripts should be passed an implicit "log" variable. A Developer or Administrator should be able to specify on the script record, and override on the launch point record, the key for which logger would be passed into the script. The dom...
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Delivered

Enable getLookupName for Attribute Automation Script

Automation scripts in Maximo have a lot of functionality, especially in relation to attributes. We can add our own custom logic to most of the common methods/functions (validate, action, getList(), etc.), and make changes to this custom logic (inc...
about 7 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 2 Delivered