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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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integration of IBM SevOne with Storage Insights

Integration of IBM SevOne with Storage Insights (This is specifically for IP network traffic monitoring). Since Industry move forward to TCP traffic this will important feature This helps for observability for TCP traffic kindly work with developm...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

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...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

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...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Allow Storage Insights to recieve and pass on notifications from other tools such as CSM

The idea is to make SI the single pain of glass for the entire storage environment. An example would be for it to log notification from CSM when replicated volumes go out of sync. This would reduce the number of IBM tools the customer has to setup...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

ALL volume view

As a spectrum control user there's the option to view ALL volumes without drilling to individual storage systems, This would be a very useful addition so Storage insights
7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Track data collector upgrade attempts (successful and failed)

Storage Insights records the time of the last data collector upgrade and upgrade version on the data collectors panel, but it does not record task activity or audit log entries for attempts to upgrade the data collectors. This activity should be r...
9 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

SIPro to trigger SGCs on FlashSystem when malware is detected

To have a fast SGC triggered when malware is detected, we should enable SIPro to trigger such without Defender DRS. Now this can be done with webhooks- that requires no out-of-the-box solution and a lot of customization.
10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Collect SAN portnames/labels of FC ports

we have lots of customers using insights for SAN monitoring and it would be very helpful to collect portnames, all customers label the ports with the device connected and that label/portname tell us what is wrong when using alert policies, not jus...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Add Applications to REST API

I would like applications to be added to the REST API. That way I can get metrics for Applications I setup in Storage Insights Pro. In particular, I want to be able to create dashboards in Grafana for Applications.
10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration