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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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IBM Storage Insights

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Storage Insights Improvements for Support Contract Reporting

We would like to see improvements in how Maintenance Contracts are being reported in Storage Insights in order to better keep an eye on and be proactive about renewals and coverage issues.
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Delivered

Storage Insights Pro Support for HDS Ops Center

Hitachi is advising customers to switch to Ops Center. SI Pro does not support Ops Center, only Command Suite. SI Pro must incorporate Ops Center in order to be compatible with Hitachi devices.
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Delivered

View how much capacity is being used and compression rates

I would like to know the over all amount of capacity that a host is consuming at the backend from Storage Insights. Today with the compresstimator being built into SVC I would to see this functionality also added to to SI Pro where I can monitor t...
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Delivered

Add support for stage/destage metrics in MB/s

Upper cache(Vc) and lower cache(Vcc) read, write, stage, destage and total metrics are currently only displayed in IO/s in Storage Insights. I would like to have the option of seeing this in MB/s as well.
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Delivered

SI doesn't automatically grant permission to support for log collection

SI doesn't have a method of granting support permission to gather logs when a new storage system is added.
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Delivered

Upgrade individual Data Collectors via GUI

Currently the only Data Collector upgrade option in the Storage Insights GUI is the button to upgrade all collectors. We would prefer to roll out the Data Collector upgrade in stages without having to do the upgrade manually. A good option for us ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Delivered

Some Special Characters are not able to be used in the Application Filter

Within the GROUPS > Application Filter settings I am unable to use ## or $$ or even AB???? on VOLSER filter.
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Delivered

Setup/Install process falls into a loop if anything goes wrong

While attempting to set up two new installs for the StorWize v5030 units, the data collector script would fall into a loop just after the download of data collector software resulting in starting over again.
about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Delivered

Public REST API For Storage Insights

Client would like Storage Insights to include a Restful API - similar to the one included in Spectrum Control.
about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 6 Delivered

SI Should Show Useful Information in Data Collection Problem Emails

When we get emails about Data Collection problems there is really no useful/actionable information in the email at all. For example: Dear Storage Insights user, IBM Storage Insights has detected a disruption of data collection for a storage system...
about 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Delivered