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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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IBM Storage Insights

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SI Data Collector Status Provides Misleading Information

The SI Data Collector Configuration page provides various pieces of status information, including the number of candidates and monitored nodes. It also as a column that reads "unreachable." I opened a support case (TS007958840) to find out why the...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Planned for future release

Storage Insights Pro Support for HDS Ops Center

Hitachi is advising customers to switch to Ops Center. SI Pro does not support Ops Center, only Command Suite. SI Pro must incorporate Ops Center in order to be compatible with Hitachi devices.
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Storage Insights to display PPRCPATH Pairing Information from the DS8000

We already have Copy Data statistics that pull in a wide range of information with regard to copy pairs, etc. Would it be possible to include PPRC Paths and their pairings at the LCU level, just like we can retrieve from DSCLI and the GUI? This wo...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Planned for future release

Run all binaries in the installation folder to prevent security software blocking

Security software like Bit9 block Insights binaries. Insights binaries are blocked even after whitelisted by security admins because Insights files are copied to a different folder than the installation folder while running. Binaries we have seen ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 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...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Future consideration

Need to add the total number of nodes and enclosures column to the array tabular view

Today its a common ask in a large environment how many total enclosures or nodes are in a cluster and the only option is to drill into each cluster. Under internal resources we actually have total nodes and enclosures displayed. But this can take ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Flash/SSDs Wear & Endurance GUI Monitoring

Urgently requested for Spectrum Storage Insight and Spectrum Virtualize GUI feature enhancement, to include tracking and monitoring of the Flash/SSDs devices on their wear and endurance. Competitors already having such features on their GUI dashbo...
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Make synchronizing passwords easier on data collectors

Change the way updating passwords for the data collectors works. Basically by adding a item under the block devices/connection tab to stop using the userid/password while you are resetting the data collector userid/password on your disk array. We ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under consideration

SC/SI don't offer more OS options for hosts

Host objects in SI and SC have some default options for OS type and a catchall for "Other."
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Add log collection as a one time action for custom alerts

There are many problems the support teams work on that require detail log collection at a time very close to an given performance event. It is difficult for customer operations teams to be able to accomplish this. Support currently supplies script...
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration