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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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IBM Storage Insights

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Additional Filter Option for Storage Insights under RC Relationships.

When creating a automated report within SI, the section under remote copy / Remote Copy Relationships, I need a filter option to show and report on only RC Relationships that is not part of any RC Groups. The aim of this report is to report on RC ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

e-mail notification when "Data collector interruption " is resolved

User can chose to receive a notification when "Data collector interruption for IBM Storage Insights" is resolved
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future 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 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

"Totals" option for adding up how Volumes and Utilization per Application

When certain reports are selected, the ability to SUM certain fields that are selected into a "Total Summary" at the top of a report would very helpful. In the reports lets say we select Volume Report and then select the columns we want to see. Be...
about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

SI no longer shows data collection logs

Recent versions of SI have removed the ability to view data collection logs.
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Add a link to "view details" of a system directly from the dashboard (without having to choose a component).

The dashboards in Storage Insights are nice; however, it feels cumbersome to be looking at a storage system in the dashboard and then have to navigate to Resources --> Block Storage Systems to then select the same system to view the details. I ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Needs more information

SI "Get support" doesn't display address of hardware requiring service

When opening a hardware ticket in SI, the address tied to the serial number is not displayed,
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Planned for future release

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 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Global Mirror volume write throughput

Need an ability to see the Global Mirror Volumes listed on "Copy Data Screen" under General Tab. Also, need a total value of Global Mirror auxiliary volume write throughput as mentioned in the following webpage: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectru...
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 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 ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration