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IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM System Storage products. 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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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IBM Storage Insights

Feature to create alert policy via CSV import

Some Storage Insights customers manage multiple SI tenants. Currently, custom alert policies exported from one tenant cannot be imported into another tenant. Provide the capability to import custom alert policies into a tenant using a CSV exported...
11 days ago in IBM Storage Insights Submitted

No follow up email after a data collector upgrade issue gets autofixed

Clients have notified me that that they are confused, when they receive an email for a failed data collector upgrade and they start investigating why this has happened. At the same time, it appears that the issue is autoxed and the collected ...
19 days ago in IBM Storage Insights Submitted

Add Openstack KVM Support

Add OpenStack KVM support similar to vCenter support. The most important need here is mapping storage volumes to their KVM Instance/host(VM). KVM creates unique volumes on the back-end storage for each volume but all volumes are mapped to the KVM ...
27 days ago in IBM Storage Insights Submitted

include the reclaimable capacity in FlashSystem GUI or add a new column in SI to show the actual used capacity (without reclaimable capacity)

Used capacity is not reported the same way wen you look at Storage Insight and FlashSystem GUI. SI include used capacity + reclaimable capacity. GUI shows Used capacity (without reclaimable). and Capacity details (Used Capacity with reclaimable) b...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights Submitted

Application Dependency Impact Analysis and Change-Risk Assessment for IBM Storage Insights

I propose adding an Application Dependency Impact Analysis and Change-Risk Assessment capability to IBM Storage Insights to help organizations better understand the potential operational impact of storage-related changes on critical applications a...
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights Submitted

Allow access to Reporting feature for support users(RTS)

Remote Technical Support(RTS) teams have access to SI instances to help clients with performance and capacity issues. We occasionally also get requests related to the Reporting feature in SI, but we don't have access to this feature. Additionally,...
2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights Submitted

SFP metrics of ports should not triggers alerts for ports which are already down or not plugged in.

SFP metrics of ports continues to generate alert for ports which are already down. This is misleading and creates a confusion in customers mind. If the ports are down or not plugged it then the minute power it has should trigger an low power alert...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights Submitted

Storage Insights Reports refresh

There are many predefined reports, which seem to be from the generation 1 of Storage Insights. Compared to the really sleek UX desgn now, the reports are not really useful. It would be great to have a A4/Letter formatted report as PDF, aligning a ...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights Submitted

Storage Insights additional role and naming clarification

SI offers currently two user roles - "Administrator" and "Licensed User". The first is essentially a Security Admin who can add and remove Storage Insights user additionally to fully use Storage Insights. The Licensed User can log on to the instan...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights Submitted

Let admin define scopes of systems that users can see

Ease of use. Let different teams see relevant information only.
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights Submitted