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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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IBM Storage Insights

Add ability to schedule the capacity growth forecast report

The capacity growth forecast report is currently a manually generated report which cannot be scheduled to be generated and delivered on a monthly basis for example.
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights Planned for future release

Ability to create Custom Folders to store reports

Would like ability to create custom folders to store created reports other than the default folders provided. We have to scroll through a great number of reports to find those previously created.There is also no filter to help find generated repor...
11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights Planned for future release

The DS8 screens need to account for Journal Date when showing capacity

The current screens do not account for journal data when showing capacity numbers. This can lead to confusion. SI can show a DS8 is only 50% full but if it is doing replication with journal volumes it may spike up to higher at times. Meaning the c...
9 months ago in IBM Storage Insights Planned for future release

Enable TS7700 monitoring, alerting, and reporting from Storage Insights

For a more complete view of overall storage asset health, capacity, and utilization status from a single source, including the capability for TS7700 and TS4500 tape storage assets to take advantage of the same reporting, alerting, and automation S...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights Planned for future release

LSS Display capability in Internal Resources page per Storage Array

It would be nice to have the ability to report on LSS on a DS8K. It would be nice if we could report on LSS and the Device Type, getting the counts per model type with an LSS device quantity Total - perhaps with a Capacity Total by model and summary.
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights Planned for future release

Enhance the "Storage system performance monitor status" error message by adding potential causes and recommendations

Today, an error (critical) is raised for "Storage system performance monitor status" without explanations or details. It is difficult for the users to understand the cause, the impact and the possible resolution related to this error. Many other e...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights Planned for future release

Graphical topology view VM -> datstore -> ESX -> Storage lun -> IBM FS9500 array.

vCenter, Hosts, and Virtual Machines associated can be retrieved from “Resources -> Hosts” menu table. If user clicks on a specific virtual machine, then under “Internal/Virtual Machine/ Related resources” panel it gives details about HBA, Driv...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights Planned for future release

Ability to monitor performance utilization. If a Datastore is performing too much IO, Add a mechanism to drill down to specific VM causing the performance impact within that datastore.

Once vCenter is registered using “Add vCenter” successfully, corresponding hosts and virtual machines are listed (and can be retrieved from “Resources -> Hosts” menu option). If user choose a particular “Virtual Machine “ it gives details , esp...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights Planned for future release

SI "New Experience": add option to export graphs on storage system overview dashboard

customer would like to export a daily graph of the top 10 vols data rate, of the last 24h
11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights Planned for future release

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,
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights Planned for future release