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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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Trend Analysis where we can identify sites that continue to have lag time issues

This request came from CSP case = TS008545343 via client We have a business need to provide trend analysis on approximately 20 sites like SOCMGM that use replication to their respective DR sites. Below is a sample of what we run daily but this is ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Have an API to communicate with Storage Insights

We want to integrate Storage Insights alerts into our monitoring tool. Should be able to communicate with Storage Insights through an API to receive alerts etc. and have them processed by our monitoring tool.
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Not under consideration

Allow more than 1 IBM Storage Insights instance to monitor IBM Storage devices using Call Home with Cloud services

There are companies that provide data hosting services that manage IBM storage devices for other companies, and there are times both companies want to monitor the device using IBM Storage Insights. If both the company that use the device and the c...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Detection of unbalanced metrics for spectrum virtualize machine

example 1In spectrum virtualize family , IO group is made of two nodes.Usually the metrics of those two nodes should be about similar, if two nodes (of the same IO group) are showing very different value for same metric this may be the sign for a ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Reporting capacity in a clustered environment is challenge.

Today we have an option to select several hosts and click merge host but this is a timing consuming, manual process in a large shop. We need a better option to recognize hosts that are in a clustered relationship. Looking at hosts that can see the...
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Storage Insights Ability to Import a list of Departments and applications by CSV

Our customer is requesting the ability to import Departments and applications via a CSV import mechanism
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

SI to Show Expert Care Capacity Licensing in Portal in Addition to Existing Previous Subscription Models

With the change to SI capacity for DS8's being included as part of Expert Care entitlements instead of as a separate subscription, the Storage Insights portal currently will only still show just the licensed capacity for the older style subscripti...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Create alerting's for any of the CPU core

Alerting on one CPU core % utilization can be very useful to detect possible issues the system As SpecV device can have up to 32 CPU core this means that user need to select and configure one alert for each of the core. As the threshold will be th...
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Storage Insights to Allow CSV Reporting for Consumer and Chargeback Reports

Please add the ability to send CSV attachments of the Consumer and Chargeback reports, as have been added for the other reports available in Storage Insights. Also if there can be an option to add a line with totals at the bottom of each report th...
over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Additional Filter Option for Storage Insights under RC Relationships.

When creating a automated report within SI, the section under remote copy / Remote Copy Relationships, I need a filter option to show and report on only RC Relationships that is not part of any RC Groups. The aim of this report is to report on RC ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration