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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

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  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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IBM Storage Insights

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...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 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...
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 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...
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 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 ...
14 days ago in IBM Storage Insights Submitted

Storage Insights subscription alias and tenant name should be identical

When creating a new SI tenant, one has to specify a name. Later on, you may add/change the alias for each tenant in "My IBM --> My products". Unfortunately, this alias has no effect to the tenant name (shown in the SI dashboard). Thus, for the ...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights Submitted

Storage Capacity Units (SCU) count for SVC in Storage Insights Pro

Clients get more detail on the actual storage capacity units they consume in SAN Volume Controller to overcome non-compliancy
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights Submitted

To schedule performance reports and to send by mail

As recomendded by @jeff.sanc in case TS019586672, I am submitting this idea because I was a user of the Cognos and Spectrum Control. I used to receive scheduled report by mail everyday with performance report of the storages. In the Storage Insigh...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights Submitted

SI Data Collector in Windows should not relay on WMIC due to deprecation

The Windows data collector service relies on the WMIC command which has been deprecated since 2016 and it is recommended to replace its use with powershell functions. On newer Windows versions (eg 11 and 2025), WMIC is not installed by default, an...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights Submitted

IBM Storage Insights - Support for TLS 1.3

Currently the highest version of TLS supported is TLS 1.2 only. This is to request TLS 1.3 support for the collector. Disabling the collection of metadata for devices that use TLS 1.0 or 1.1 - IBM Documentation only mentions TLS1.2 which will be u...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights Submitted

IBM Storage Insights - Provide the Data Collector as a Docker Image

To simplify the deployment of the collector and run it on the Mainframe offer this software package as a Docker Container so it can be simply deployed to zCX or OpenShift (RHOSCP).This keeps the data collector close to the environment where it col...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights Submitted