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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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Storage Insights to report power supply issues in FlashSystem

Currently Storage Insights health status for a FlashSystem doesn't raise any alerts for power supply failure or power input issue. Everything shows green until the customer is notified via call-home or SNMP alerts set at the system level. The cust...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Add performance statistics for IP Ports for iSCSI/Host workload

Storage Insights has good performance reporting capabilities for individual fibre channel ports, but there currently is no capability to look at the performance of IP ports that are performing host workloads (iSCSI/RDMA/NVMe). With the wide adapti...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Planned for future release

zHyperlink health status needs to be monitored and reported by Storage Insights

zHyperlink ports are not monitored or reported by Insights. The main advantage of Insights is the ability to see the status of all our boxes from one screen. Except that in this case, we still need to go back to all individual DS8K GUI's to double...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Planned for future release

Search for the node serial number

When we see a CSP ticket with a link to storage insights, the link points to the machine park, not the specific device for which the ticket is open. There is no search option to check for the node serial number. The node serial number is listed in...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Planned for future release

Performance data exported from SI should be in customer timezone

Performance data exported from SI are always provided in CST timezone, not in customer timezone. this is a concert for the user
over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Planned for future release

Storage Insights needs end-to-end topology view

To investigate issues with performance or connectivity, end-to-end views are needed. These would show the server/host fibre connections to the SAN and to the SVC, likewise from SVC to the SAN to the backend storage. Possibly also show SVC host clu...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

SI Should Include FC Ports Current Speed as a Column

SI should include the Current Speed for FC Ports in the table. The table currently only lists the maximum possible speed of a port. The CurrentSpeed of the port is available from lsioport -metrics
almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

LSS Display capability in Internal Resources page per Storage Array

It would be nice to have the ability to report on LSS on a DS8K. It would be nice if we could report on LSS and the Device Type, getting the counts per model type with an LSS device quantity Total - perhaps with a Capacity Total by model and summary.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 5 Planned for future release

Display more detailed information in the Storage Insights Ticket dashboard

SI is a great pan of glass to Monitor, Manage and track issue on storage environment.When using the Device Ticket Dashboard, user see only the ticket number ( RCMS, RETAIN , Salesforce) but detailed information are missing.
over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Ticket overview in Storage Insights

We would like to have the possibility to view all tickets, open ongoing tickets and closed aswell in the same window. As for now we have no overview to see all tickets but we have to manually open the "Tickets" tab under each system.
over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release