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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Ideas

    Add Service-Now integration to Storage Insights

    For certain alerts, I don't want it to sent an email. I want it to open a ticket. I want to be able to configure various Service Now fields to allow the severity and group to be assign, along with other fields An example: caller: Storage Insights ...
    about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Future consideration

    Storage Insights doesn't collect performance data often enough

    Storage Insights can collect performance data no more frequently than every minute. Some storage devices, such as Spectrum Virtualize, collect data more frequently than that. Since some performance events take place on the scale of seconds, it is ...
    over 7 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Planned for future release

    Host cluster view option

    It would be useful to have an option that shows host clusters in the overview panel where hosts are shown. I have attached a drawing of what it could look like. Thanks
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Needs more information

    FlashSystem Freeze time delay metric

    When I do my nightly data refresh from my Corporate FlashSystem to my remote Disaster Recovery FlashSystem, the 'Freeze time' in the "Copy Services" - "Remote Copy" - "Consistency Group" - 'Freeze time' falls behind from being current. I would lik...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Not under consideration

    Integration support for ARCOS/ARCON Privileged Access Management (PAM) for Storage Insight tool


    ICICI bank has 90+ IBM Storage arrays being managed by three IBM tools - Spectrum Control (TPC), Storage Insights (SI) and Copy Service manager (CSM). These should integrate with ARCOS for obtaining the password to access/work with storage arrays....
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    Include WWNN as a property for DS8000 Storage Systems for the purpose of building PPRC Scripts

    Storage Insights is so useful to pull data for the purpose of building PPRC scripts; however, when defining PPRC Paths, the WWNN of the remote DS8000 is required in the command. The WWNN can be retrived by issuing either of these DSCLI commands: l...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Submitted

    SI to Include IBM DS8XXX Frames in an Inventory View

    We would like to see a way in Storage Insights Pro to see an inventory list of all DS8 frames.Ideally I would like to see an Inventory table which lists out all frames for all the DS8 devices, but at a minimum we should have an Inventory tab withi...
    over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Storage Insights Ceph integration : To show all meta data

    Full fledged Ceph-SI integration with complete meta data collection of the Ceph cluster including Capacity, Performance metrics. Also to include ticketing, advisories, L2/L3 view features. Samsung / Joyent customer has requested for this.
    about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Add Data Collector Support for IBMi (in addition to AIX, LINUX & Windows)

    Customers operating IBMi only environments (without any Windows, Linux, or AIX supporting systems) require native Data Collector support for monitoring DS8/DSA and B/C‑Type SAN storage components. Without this capability, these customers lack esse...
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    Provides a way to change the instance name, which is visible on the new Carbon-based UI.

    An instance name is assigned when it is created and deployed. While it was not visible on the classic UI, it is clearly visible on the new Carbon-based UI which would surprises most customers; most customers would not remember they had chosen the ...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Is a defect

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