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SI/SC don't show NPIV ports on SpecVirt devices

Today, neither SI nor SC show NPIV ports on SpecVirt devices, only the physical WWPN. Since the direction is to use NPIV only for host attachment, this prevents important information related to host connectivity being visible.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 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 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Add option to send added 'semi-preformated' text with an emailed alert.

We want to send some alerts to our ticketing system. We've put in a separate idea for that integration. In the meantime, we'd like the ability to provide semi-preformated text to alerts. If we could do that, then we can send alerts to the ticketin...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under 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 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

e-mail notification when "Data collector interruption " is resolved

User can chose to receive a notification when "Data collector interruption for IBM Storage Insights" is resolved
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 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 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

SI no longer shows data collection logs

Recent versions of SI have removed the ability to view data collection logs.
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Option to turn off sending report attachments as a zip file

Currently when you create a report in SI and chose to have it emailed, attachments are always sent as a zip file. Clients that block file attachment extensions at the domain level are unable to receive these reports.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Display grace period of 30 minutes between 2 log collections in task failure message

When attempting to collect logs from a storage subsystem, a user can received the following message when the task fails: " Uploading system logs for system XXX to ticket TS0123456789. The log package for the device with serial number YYY for ticke...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

"Totals" option for adding up how Volumes and Utilization per Application

When certain reports are selected, the ability to SUM certain fields that are selected into a "Total Summary" at the top of a report would very helpful. In the reports lets say we select Volume Report and then select the columns we want to see. Be...
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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