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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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Ability to monitor Tape devices

Customer would like the ability to monitor Tape devices in Storage Insights
16 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Ability to monitor Amazon s3 object storage

Customer would like the ability to monitor Amazon s3 object storage in Storage Insights
16 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

List each zone name, not just the zone sets

It would be very helpful to list each of the zone names, not just the number of zones in a zone set.
16 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Performance tables to have a Totals row at bottom to sum the values

On all of the performance tables, it would be nice to have a "Totals" row at bottom to sum the values of each column.
16 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

add graphs to reports

when creating performance reports and chosing PDF or HTML as the preferred format, it would be very helpful to include a graph of the selected metrics as well. (much like in the upper half of the SI performance view.)
7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Search for the node serial number

When we see a CSP ticket with a link to storage insights, the link points to the machine park, not the specific device for which the ticket is open. There is no search option to check for the node serial number. The node serial number is listed in...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Planned for future release

Alert notification from Storage Insight for RPO violation.

RPO violation notification can be very helpful to customer and MSP to do required action on time.
9 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Under review

Add alerting for failed login on storage devices

It would be handy to be able to enable alert policies to send an alert when a user fails to authenticate when attempting to log into a system. I know that can be seen from syslog, but it would be handy to simply trigger an alert in Storage Insight...
2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

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...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Webhook support for more than ransomware alerts

It could be useful to have Storage Insights able to push events details to third-party URL whenever an alert is raised or when any event is triggered. This would push the integration of Storage Insights further with ticketing or any other event ma...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release