This has been this way since it was implemented. I'll be honest, I haven't opened a support ticket to get a defect on it. IBM never documented this feature publicly. I only learned of it because I was at IBM and did this presentation (MSUG - Automation Scripts in Maximo Application Suite | Maximo Open Forum) to share to a wider audience. Since then, people covered it even further including my now colleague Andrzej (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ibm-mas-manage-ui-bean-scripting-andrzej-wieclaw-4vtbf/ )
Undocumented features are a little bit trickier to get defects approved because it has never been documented how you are supposed to be able to utilize it. But in this scenario, I imagine if someone opened the support ticket, they would get IBM to approve it.
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Steven Shull
Naviam
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