What can be done when decommissioning a location that cannot be done when decommissioning an asset?

When changing the status of a location in IBM Maximo to DECOMMISSIONED, the system presents a dialog box with an option to "Roll New Status down to All Assets in All Changed Locations?". This feature allows an administrator to apply the same decommissioned status to all assets residing within that location and its hierarchy simultaneously. This is a unique function of the location decommissioning process because locations act as containers for assets. This option is not available when decommissioning a single asset, as an asset does not hierarchically contain other assets in the same manner.

B. Remove All Reference to This Location from All Contracts?

Decommissioning does not automatically purge historical or contractual references for either locations or assets; this is a separate data cleanup activity.

C. Remove All References to This Location from All Job Plans?

Changing a location's status does not automatically update or remove references from existing Job Plan records; it only prevents its use on new work orders.

D. Delete Associated Service Addresses That will be made Redundant?

The decommissioning process for a location does not include an option to automatically delete its associated service address record, even if it becomes redundant.

1. IBM Maximo Manage 8.7 Documentation, "Changing the status of locations": This official documentation describes the process of changing a location's status. It explicitly details the dialog box option: "If you want to apply the status change to all assets in the location, select the Roll New Status down to All Assets in All Changed Locations? check box." This confirms the action is specific to the location status change process.

2. IBM Maximo Manage 8.7 Documentation, "Changing the status of an asset": This document outlines the procedure for changing an asset's status. The description of the process and the associated dialog box options do not include any feature to "roll down" a status, as this concept is not applicable to a single asset, thereby highlighting the difference from the location decommissioning process.