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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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Ability to monitor Tape devices

Customer would like the ability to monitor Tape devices in Storage Insights
2 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Ability to monitor Amazon s3 object storage

Customer would like the ability to monitor Amazon s3 object storage in Storage Insights
2 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

List each zone name, not just the zone sets

It would be very helpful to list each of the zone names, not just the number of zones in a zone set.
2 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Performance tables to have a Totals row at bottom to sum the values

On all of the performance tables, it would be nice to have a "Totals" row at bottom to sum the values of each column.
2 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Storage Scale integration with Storage Insights

To have fully overview on what is goning on on the ESS/SCALE cluster in a daily operation: And hopfully lead to a single pane of glass for day to day operations File Activity Tracking File Age Distribution File Count and Size Breakdown Snapshots O...
15 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Enhance REST API for adding new devices or update settings

We have approx 200 FlashSystems and 300 Switches in our SI instance. We do have fully automate the initial configuration for SAN Switches and FlashSystems in our environment. As well as updating any system settings is fully automated. We would lik...
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Add Functionalities for Storage Scale

Storage Scale functionality is needed in Storage Insights. This will give customers a Single Pane of Glass in administering and monitoring their Scale Clusters. Currently, The Storage Insights account needs root privileges in order to operate with...
21 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Add ability to schedule the capacity growth forecast report

The capacity growth forecast report is currently a manually generated report which cannot be scheduled to be generated and delivered on a monthly basis for example.
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Enable TS7700 monitoring, alerting, and reporting from Storage Insights

For a more complete view of overall storage asset health, capacity, and utilization status from a single source, including the capability for TS7700 and TS4500 tape storage assets to take advantage of the same reporting, alerting, and automation S...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

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 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release