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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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Ideas

Ability to open a case for Storage Insights via Storage Insights

Request to allow a user to open a support case for Storage Insights using Storage Insights. Storage Insights is able to open support cases for the IBM block storage systems but it does not have an option to open a support case for itself. As a res...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Functionality already exists

IBM Storage Insights - Support for TLS 1.3

Currently the highest version of TLS supported is TLS 1.2 only. This is to request TLS 1.3 support for the collector. Disabling the collection of metadata for devices that use TLS 1.0 or 1.1 - IBM Documentation only mentions TLS1.2 which will be u...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Enhance REST API for adding new devices or update settings

We have approx 200 FlashSystems and 300 Switches in our SI instance. We do have fully automate the initial configuration for SAN Switches and FlashSystems in our environment. As well as updating any system settings is fully automated. We would lik...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Future consideration

Display data collection permission information in Storage system table for support role

Support role can see data collection permission information only when going to System actions > Get logs. It would be great if permission information could be seen in Storage system table or under Log access in settings.
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Tape Library Support

Add support for IBM tape libraries in Spectrum Control and Storage Insights to monitor code levels, performance of robotics, performance of tape drives and capacity of the library.
over 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 5 Planned for future release

Populate contact info for ticket creation from Storage Insights

Current ticket creation workflow from SI relies on the user entering name, email, phone number for each ticket. This data is used to find a matching support contact to use for the case. The user might get confused when the support ticket ends up o...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0

Storage Capacity Units (SCU) count for SVC in Storage Insights Pro

Clients get more detail on the actual storage capacity units they consume in SAN Volume Controller to overcome non-compliancy
8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Let admin define scopes of systems that users can see

Ease of use. Let different teams see relevant information only.
3 months 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.)
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

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...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Planned for future release