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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.

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IBM Storage Insights

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Add more options for scheduling performance monitoring

We collect more detailed performance reports on a daily basis using local scripts. When these are running, storage insights performance collection will fail. This is specific to collecting performance data on Hitachi Vantara storage arrays.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Not under consideration

Units of Measurements in Storage Data to be displayed in Base 10

It would be greatly helpful for the Resource Unit Billing teams and IBM user group to see the option of selecting the Storage Metrics display using Base 10, in addition to Base 2 that currently exist.
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 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
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Group View by Location

Having a group view "by Location" would bring quite some releave and push effecientcy. With close to 200 Storage devices plus SAN Switches and 20+ Data Centers it would be beneficial for us to get directly the view of a single data center, rather ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

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...
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Not under consideration

Selectable location for Cloud instance (compliancy with regulations - showstopper to use SI)

Banking customer requires their Storage Insights instance to be hosted in Europe. If not, they are not allowed to use Storage Insights. Customer would therefore also have to be able to select the location for their instance.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

ability to use SSH for Brocade switches

The current way to add brocade switch/fabrics is only by HTTP or HTTPS. Without the ability to use SSH we can not use Insights features since HTTP and HTTPS has been disabled in our environment.
almost 2 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.
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration