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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

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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 ...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Not under consideration

Storage Scale integration with Storage Insights

To have fully overview on what is goning on on the ESS/SCALE cluster in a daily operation: And hopfully lead to a single pane of glass for day to day operations File Activity Tracking File Age Distribution File Count and Size Breakdown Snapshots O...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Not under consideration

Add Functionalities for Storage Scale

Storage Scale functionality is needed in Storage Insights. This will give customers a Single Pane of Glass in administering and monitoring their Scale Clusters. Currently, The Storage Insights account needs root privileges in order to operate with...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Not under consideration

List each zone name, not just the zone sets

It would be very helpful to list each of the zone names, not just the number of zones in a zone set.
10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Not under consideration

predefined report

Create a predifined report that can be scheduled to be sent, once a week or once a month, with all the Flashsystems current code level and the recommended code level, plus if they have Advidor alerts, list those too. Very useful for any client, bu...
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under consideration

Add alerting for failed login on storage devices

It would be handy to be able to enable alert policies to send an alert when a user fails to authenticate when attempting to log into a system. I know that can be seen from syslog, but it would be handy to simply trigger an alert in Storage Insight...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Not under consideration

Ability to monitor Amazon s3 object storage

Customer would like the ability to monitor Amazon s3 object storage in Storage Insights
10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under consideration

More functionality for ESS/SCALE

To have fully overview on what is goning on on the ESS/SCALE cluster in a daily operation:And hopfully lead to a single pane of glass for day to day operations File Activity Tracking File Age Distribution File Count and Size Breakdown Snapshots Ov...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard "Volumes" option like On-Prem

In the On-Prem version of Insights (Spectrum Control), we have the "Volumes" option under "Storage" tab on dashboard panel which displays all the volumes from multiple IBM SVC clusters but can't find that on the cloud version. Can you please have ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Not under consideration

Ability to monitor Tape devices

Customer would like the ability to monitor Tape devices in Storage Insights
10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Not under consideration