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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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Require key auth SSH only for Storage Insights, SpectrumScale

System: IBM Spectrum Control Storage InsightsActor: Organisation needing new auth-method enabled to be able to consume platform UQ has evolved data governance, capacity management and growth metrics as a key import factor in project planning and f...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Add navigation arrows to timeframes in Spectrum Control - Storage Insights

Add navigation arrows to timeframes in Spectrum Control - Storage Insights.
about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 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.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Scale, a grace period can be configured before the quota is enforced

When using quotas on Spectrum Scale, a grace period can be configured before the quota is enforced. Native Scale commands can report on how much grace is left. SI (and presumably SC) doesn't report this.
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Storage Insights Pro on-prem array access credentials protocol requested

RPQ required for Spectrum Storage Insights Pro. The storage system credentials are required for Storage Insights to be able to collect data. These credentials are encrypted before being stored in the Storage Insights database, and the databases it...
over 6 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Allow the customers to use SSO / SAML with their domain

As our company security request, it will be better that we can have the function that support SSO/SAML with our domain to login the IBM Insights.
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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
almost 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...
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration