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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

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...
1 day ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 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,...
12 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 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...
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

On-prem Storage Insights

Last week, I met with a PSU BFSI client and presented IBM Storage Insights (SaaS). We requested them to integrate their storage systems with the Storage Insights SaaS offering. We conducted a detailed technical discussion and whiteboarding session...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 7 Submitted

SI option to change GUI language (browser independent)

There's no way to change SI's GUI language but to set one's browsers language accordingly. We can't change our browser language from German to English as that would break many of our workflows (time, date and number formats), still we would like t...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Add Iogrp Memory (FlashCopy, Replication, Mirror) as a Capacity item, tracked over time

The Iogrp memory is a limited resource on the flash system (I understand it will continue to be even once memory paging is added), that impacts the system's ability to do basic functions, like taking a snapshot. We should track this over time, so ...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

'Storage System Maintenance Information' view: show more service details in 'Earliest Service Expiration' column to get a quicker overview.

We discussed this esp in context of Expert Care Support - show 'Expert Care Basic - Active' , 'Expert Care Advanced - Active' or 'Expert Care Premium - Active' instead of just 'Expert Care - Active'. This would help clients with a large SI instanc...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Report outdated disk firmware

The document "Supported Drive Types and Firmware Levels for IBM Storage Virtualize Family of Products" lists the minimum disk firmware level for each model used by IBM storages. SI has the model and firmware information about all the disks in the ...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Submitted

Hyper-V Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) Performance Metrics

Hyper-V Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) Performance Metrics I have discussions with the clients who have high-density Microsoft Hyper-V environments. The Hyper-V leverages Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) to optimize storage performance. While we can c...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Submitted

Download storage system CSVs

Being able to download CSVs for individual tables such as hosts, volumes, etc. is great. It would be nice to be able to have an option at the storage system level to export/download a .zip file that contains full table CSVs for all child objects i...
2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted