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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

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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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Ideas

Report outdated disk firmware

The document "Supported Drive Types and Firmware Levels for IBM Storage Virtualize Family of Products" lists the minimum disk firmware level for each model used by IBM storages. SI has the model and firmware information about all the disks in the ...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Submitted

Download storage system CSVs

Being able to download CSVs for individual tables such as hosts, volumes, etc. is great. It would be nice to be able to have an option at the storage system level to export/download a .zip file that contains full table CSVs for all child objects i...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Support for SI and SI PRO entitled storage sytsems in ONE instance - with SI PRO capabilities switched on / off according to system entitlement

As of today, we cannot have a mixture of SI and SI PRO entitled storage systems in one environment. SI and SI PRO entitled storage systems can reside in one SI instance, but to exploit SI PRO capabilities, a second SI instance for SI PRO entitled ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Not under consideration

Storage Insights Reports refresh

There are many predefined reports, which seem to be from the generation 1 of Storage Insights. Compared to the really sleek UX desgn now, the reports are not really useful. It would be great to have a A4/Letter formatted report as PDF, aligning a ...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Storage Insights additional role and naming clarification

SI offers currently two user roles - "Administrator" and "Licensed User". The first is essentially a Security Admin who can add and remove Storage Insights user additionally to fully use Storage Insights. The Licensed User can log on to the instan...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Alerts notifications by mail should include all details for the alert and not only the link to the Aler in the SI instance

SI alert notifications by mail should include the full description/details of the alert and not only the link to the alert in the SI instance. With this you will have at good overview of the "problem" with all details and no need to go to SI insta...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

zHyperlink health status needs to be monitored and reported by Storage Insights

zHyperlink ports are not monitored or reported by Insights. The main advantage of Insights is the ability to see the status of all our boxes from one screen. Except that in this case, we still need to go back to all individual DS8K GUI's to double...
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Planned for future release

Storage Insights subscription alias and tenant name should be identical

When creating a new SI tenant, one has to specify a name. Later on, you may add/change the alias for each tenant in "My IBM --> My products". Unfortunately, this alias has no effect to the tenant name (shown in the SI dashboard). Thus, for the ...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

REST API to get performance metrics (including RPO) for volume groups

Need a REST API to get the performance metrics for volume groups that are displayed in Storage Insights. This includes the RPO metrics.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Future consideration

Assign an alias right at instance creation

When customers set up an SI instance and invite IBMers, the tiles in the dashboard all look alike. If an IBMer has been invited to more than one instance it's impossible to tell which one belongs to which customer. While there is a way for an admi...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Needs more information