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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...
1 day 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 ...
23 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
21 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 ...
4 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...
14 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

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...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 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...
8 months 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...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Enable Zooming on Performance Graph

In Storage Insights when looking at Performance or Capacity, give the ability to click-select an area of the graph to adjust the Start/End time of the displayed graph to the area you select.
8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted