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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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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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Change capacity limit for file storage systems

The new capacity planning report functionality tracks against a capacity limit of 100%. However, customers may have a threshold for implementing administrative controls on growth, data migration, or initiating new purchases. It would be helpful to...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Display freeze time for remote copy remote copy relationships in Storage Insights

Customer has requested to be able to view Freeze Time for remote copy relationships within the Storage Insights GUI.Other remote copy information is viewed through navigating to: Resources - Block Storage Systems - Click the storage device - Click...
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Not under consideration

Please sign Insights with an IBM certificate - security apps block Insights binaries

Security software like Bit9 block Insights binaries. Insights binaries are blocked even after whitelisted by security admins because Insights files are copied to different folder than the installation folder. Also, automatic updates are not possib...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Future consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Needs more information

Port time blocked percentage metric

Request to get the metric "Port time blocked percentage" added into Storage Insights available metrics to monitor. This metric is a calculated value available in regular iostats and L3/dev indicate this value is calculated as :Time Blocked Percent...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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.
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Needs more information

Add DA pair column to DS8000 drives listing

Please add a DA pair column to DS8000 drives (DDM) listings. Within a DS8000, spare drives are restricted to the device adapters they are connected to. And each device adapter pair has a number of available spares, usually 4. It is threrefore impo...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Allow global Filter/search across entire SI Instance

When I have multiple devices in my environment, I need a quick way to drill down to what device is of immediate concern. If I get CRC errors from a WWPN, I need to search my SI instance for which array is presenting that WWPN. If I need to grow a ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

The customer request Storage Insights to have a Safe Guarded Copy capacity planning tool similar to StorM

The customer would like to use Safe Guarded Copy but wants to understand the capacity requirements using Storage Insights
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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...
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration