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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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Add Data Collector Support for IBMi (in addition to AIX, LINUX & Windows)

Customers operating IBMi only environments (without any Windows, Linux, or AIX supporting systems) require native Data Collector support for monitoring DS8/DSA and B/C‑Type SAN storage components. Without this capability, these customers lack esse...
2 days 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 ...
5 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Allow Federation Authentication with Storage Insights

Allow Federation Authentication with Storage Insights. This is a requirement by our Cyber team to control access to our Storage Insights instance. We had opened TS021203790 to enable this feature, but the responded that the option is not available...
15 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 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
22 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Extend API support for the STaaS service Dashboard.

The IBM STaaS Service comes with an extra dashboard for Storage Insights Pro. Unfortunately, all information displayed via the Dashboard GUI cannot be obtained via the API. Please extend the API functionality so that all information displayed in t...
22 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 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 ...
24 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Storage Insights Global Mirror Average RPO Metric Request

It would provide great value if Storage Insights could capture Consistency Group detail in the “Copy Data” section from the hardware and use that data to provide an Average RPO value by SYSPLEX or Consistency Group. Further, having the ability to ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Planned for future release

Enhance the "Storage system performance monitor status" error message by adding potential causes and recommendations

Today, an error (critical) is raised for "Storage system performance monitor status" without explanations or details. It is difficult for the users to understand the cause, the impact and the possible resolution related to this error. Many other e...
2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Host visualization - based on SI/SC/Prometheus /Flash System in IBM Insights

In IBM insights there in feature to view Host visualization - based on SI/SC/Prometheus /Flash System in IBM InsightsAdding them will be benefit for customer.
2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Needs more information

IBM INsights : volume level capacity metrics for an array and a specific volume in the array

we is looking for volume level capacity metrics, especially, for an array and a specific volume in the array , how is the volume capacity changes over a week / month etc this is very important feature to be available in metrics during the performa...
2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Needs more information