IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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    Support for SI and SI PRO entitled storage sytsems in ONE instance - with SI PRO capabilities switched on / off according to system entitlement

    As of today, we cannot have a mixture of SI and SI PRO entitled storage systems in one environment. SI and SI PRO entitled storage systems can reside in one SI instance, but to exploit SI PRO capabilities, a second SI instance for SI PRO entitled ...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Not under consideration

    Alerts notifications by mail should include all details for the alert and not only the link to the Aler in the SI instance

    SI alert notifications by mail should include the full description/details of the alert and not only the link to the alert in the SI instance. With this you will have at good overview of the "problem" with all details and no need to go to SI insta...
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Support request for Tx and Rx power metrics on SAN switches to monitor possibly faulty SFP transceivers

    One of my customers wants to monitor the SFP transceivers' power levels, both transmit and receive, on their SAN switches, because they have had link failure issues caused by faulty transceivers in the past. I know it is hard to diagnose those iss...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Assign an alias right at instance creation

    When customers set up an SI instance and invite IBMers, the tiles in the dashboard all look alike. If an IBMer has been invited to more than one instance it's impossible to tell which one belongs to which customer. While there is a way for an admi...
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Needs more information

    Storage Insights to report power supply issues in FlashSystem

    Currently Storage Insights health status for a FlashSystem doesn't raise any alerts for power supply failure or power input issue. Everything shows green until the customer is notified via call-home or SNMP alerts set at the system level. The cust...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Populate contact info for ticket creation from Storage Insights

    Current ticket creation workflow from SI relies on the user entering name, email, phone number for each ticket. This data is used to find a matching support contact to use for the case. The user might get confused when the support ticket ends up o...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

    For tickets that are showing on Storage Insights have a hyperlink to the IBM ticket

    This will eliminate the need to copy and paste the ticket number into the IBM support site. The hyperlink will take you there eliminating the copy paste process as well as saving time
    2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    Add observability and alerting for queue full conditions on IBM Flashsytem arrays

    Problem statement. Pool response times reach up to 100ms but there is no insight as to the cause. IBM support were engaged and identified the cause to be queue full condition on the front-end per TS019735977.It is a frustration to know there is a ...
    19 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    Enhance REST API for adding new devices or update settings

    We have approx 200 FlashSystems and 300 Switches in our SI instance. We do have fully automate the initial configuration for SAN Switches and FlashSystems in our environment. As well as updating any system settings is fully automated. We would lik...
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Future consideration

    Add the ability to accept a callhome Flash system block device via Rest API

    We are trying to automate tasks across nearly 80 systems, and this number grows with each release. Currently, accepting each system manually through the SI UI is time-consuming. We aim to automate this process using the REST API and validate the i...
    2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Submitted

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