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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.

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Add Spectrum Virtualize topology property for alert rule creation

Add Spectrum Virtualize topology property for alert rule creation Port to local node response time alerts is a good way to check for issue or potential issueThreshold should be different depending of the topologyTopology can be standard, stretch a...
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Alert for Consistency Group status change

Product: Storage insight PROActor: users want to be alerted for GlobalMirror stoppedDescription: we want to have an alert for monitoring Global mirror status change. In details we want to be alerted when we a consistency group goes to stoppedstauts
about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Storage Insights to retrieve Timezone from DS8 HMC configuration and not from DS8 internal OS

We have found during a problem ticket TS001724631 we had raised to SI support that SI is pulling the timezone for a DS888X system from the internal OS running on the array, and not from what is configured in the HMCs as it should be. Please update...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Resources -> Pools panel displays 100 pools/page and not all the pools on 1 page.

We have more than 300 pools and it needs 4 pages to display all of them.
5 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Report or chart that shows SVC node/IOgroup balance at a glance

To better balance the workload across IOgroups, it's important to see the # of hosts, IOPS, throughput, etc. that each IOgroup is handling. Need a report that shows the IOgroup workload for all 4 IOgroups side-by-side in an SVC cluster. This helps...
7 months 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...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Storage Insights to include DS8 Hostconnect Column on HBA View

For the IBM DS8 systems, on the Related Resources > Hosts > HBAs view, there are columns for name/status/type/WWPN/IQN/Associated Drives, but the column that would be most helpful is to list the associated host that the HBA login is related to.
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration