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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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IBM Storage Insights

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Export performance data to any support case

The Export Performance Data action in Storage Insights has 2 options for where the data goes. Upload to a support case Download to the local system If the user chooses Upload, Storage Insights restricts the upload specifically to a case for that s...
9 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Delivered

Customer is asking if storage insights can track in it's log which users are accessing what data.

Required from an audit perspective to determine which employees are accessing SI and reviewing data collected by SI.
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Delivered

Upload DS8000 On-Demand Dumps (ODD) from Storage Insights

Would like to be able to upload DS8000 On-Demand Dumps (ODD) from Storage Insights. These are necessary to investigate issues on DS8000 and require to be generated rapidly (contents are rapidly overwritten). As of today, Storage Insights offers on...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Delivered

Storage Insights Trend Analysis

A simple trendline graph of the "Used Capacity" and how it is expected to grow over the next months/ years/. We are entering data into an Excel sheet right now, this is not a very complicated feature to have. Especially since the Recent Fill Rate ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Delivered

Display both the main (DKC) microcode and the (SVP) microcode on Hitachi storage arrays

Currently, storage insights only displays the svp firmware levels, which is not the firmware level of the array itself. It would be best to display both levels of firmware as they are two separate levels that normally are not the same.
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Delivered

Storage Insights Should Not Consider an Offline Host as an Error Status for an Entire Array

In the most recent update to Storage Insights, the tool started counting any Offline host connections as an Error condition for the entire array. In our environment we have many hosts/connections which for various reasons (eg AIX LPM, DR sites, &a...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Delivered

Create a new column in percentile within Storage Insights for "SafeGuarded Copy SGC Used Capacity"

The SGC reserved capacity is set per volume. This capacity can be set to whatever multiplier of the original CKD volume itself. To be able to monitor this SGC reserved capacity it is imperative to have a column for SGC Used Capacity in percentage ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Delivered

Storage Insights Should List Timestamps Consistently

I noticed that when we are looking on the Performance tab the time selection dropdowns are in 24 hour time but on the axis of the chart which is drawn, they are in 12-hour time. Sometimes the chart axis lists "AM/PM" but other times it does not.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Delivered

Let me select what log I want to upload in Storage Insights

Request for new feature Or if this is already implemented , requesting to open up for general use ( demand is increasing for this … ) Customer created SNAP from SI and in parallel PMR got closed by SSR - so , SNAP never got uploaded to PMR and was...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Delivered

Storage Insights Improvements for Support Contract Reporting

We would like to see improvements in how Maintenance Contracts are being reported in Storage Insights in order to better keep an eye on and be proactive about renewals and coverage issues.
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Delivered