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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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IBM Storage Insights

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Assign an alias right at instance creation

When customers set up an SI instance and invite IBMers, the tiles in the dashboard all look alike. If an IBMer has been invited to more than one instance it's impossible to tell which one belongs to which customer. While there is a way for an admi...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Needs more information

Display the "IOPs limit" parameter in Storage Insights.

The lsvdisk command gives the information # svcinfo lsvdisk -delim , -gui -bytes 12 Tue Apr 15 11:22:05 PDT 2025id,12name,xxxxxxxxxxxIO_group_id,0IO_group_name,io_grp0status,onlinemdisk_grp_id,0mdisk_grp_name,XXXXXXXPoolcapacity,75161927680....com...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Needs more information

There is a need for the Call Home functionality to be managed from Storage Insights.

Customers are reporting a need (due to security teams) for Call Home requests to be fully handled by Storage Insight, not by FlashSystem arrays
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Needs more information

Add basic Hardware Monitoring to Storage Insight for b-type SAN Switches

I would like to see the feature implemented into the Cloud Version of Storage Insights. We have added all our Storage, SVCs and SAN Switches to have a single pane of glass for our storage networking. We believed that hardware error events would sh...
9 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Needs more information

Add Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager support to Storage Insights and Spectrum Control

Add Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager support to Storage Insights, and Spectrum Control Also there are multiple KVM offerings available, which can be evaluated to add support in Storage Insights.
12 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Needs more information

Host cluster view option

It would be useful to have an option that shows host clusters in the overview panel where hosts are shown. I have attached a drawing of what it could look like. Thanks
5 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Needs more information

Show Buffer-Credit configured per Switch-Port

Provide a column on the switch port page with the configured buffer credits. This would help to prove a virtualize configuration or to identify a possible congerstion source.
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Needs more information

SFP warning and info alerts should be elevated to higher status in system monitoring

We have had 2 SEV1 incidents at our org due to SFP's malfunctioning but not failing. When SFP's begin showing lower voltage or abnormal TX or RX specs, these need to be elevated to be a system health issue for IBM Brocade Storage switches. This is...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Needs more information

Add a link to "view details" of a system directly from the dashboard (without having to choose a component).

The dashboards in Storage Insights are nice; however, it feels cumbersome to be looking at a storage system in the dashboard and then have to navigate to Resources --> Block Storage Systems to then select the same system to view the details. I ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Needs more information