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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IBM Storage Insights

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Easy way open IBM case for IBM Brocade SAN switch via Insight manager

Currently, we have different models of Brocade SAN switches and FCIP routers purchased from IBM. The challenge is that when we need to open a case for hardware or software issues, it must be done through the IBM PMR portal. If this process could b...
2 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Please notify the IBM storage End of Availability (EOA) and End of Support (EOS) service dates through the Storage Insight Manager.

Currently, we are managing multiple IBM storage systems of different models located at various sites. These devices were purchased from different business partners. Often, we are unaware of the exact EOA (End of Availability) and EOS (End of Suppo...
2 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Add the ability to use more"custom tag" fields with a tag manager

We are all familiar with the Custom Tag1, Custom Tag2, and Custom Tag3 fields but many of us find ourselves needing more tags for advanced filtering or for an ideal place to keep up with common attributes. The new GUI seems to have this as a place...
8 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Add "IBM Ransomware Threat Detection (RTD) Patches" in the Resources pages of Storage Insights

I don't just want to be able to see the code level on the storage, or whether it has ransomware threat detection. I want to be able to see the ransom threat detection code level on the clusters. If something needs to be updated, I want to know.
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

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...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Submitted

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
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

make tags avaiable on the storwize that could be used to add volumes to applications groups in insight

we are separating volumes on storwize/fs systems. we are putting them in application groups by os, so we can monitor performance. groups are vmware aix ibmi the problem is adding new volumes on the array, does not add them to the application group...
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

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...
2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Proactive/Predictive Alerting or Analysis Before a Port goes Bad

Wondering if there could be some proactive alerting or analysis in storage insights based on different metrics that are collected for all the ports(FICON, FCP, ZHL) to predict a port going bad before it actually does go bad on DS8K. Currently, the...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

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...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

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