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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Ideas

    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

    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...
    10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Sample RTD payload generation from web console to webhook

    It would be beneficial to have the option to send a sample Ransomware Threat Detection Anomaly event alert from the console. Our SIEM can only build rules from data schema collected through the webhook. Having to run a simulation to get an alert t...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    SIPro to trigger SGCs on FlashSystem when malware is detected

    To have a fast SGC triggered when malware is detected, we should enable SIPro to trigger such without Defender DRS. Now this can be done with webhooks- that requires no out-of-the-box solution and a lot of customization.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    Planning - Maintenance information- add the export button option

    Nice I can display when the storage is expiring but it would be nice to export the findings
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Submitted

    Display the "IOPs limit" parameter in Storage Insights.

    The lsvdisk command gives the information # svcinfo lsvdisk -delim , -gui -bytes 12 Tue Apr 15 11:22:05 PDT 2025id,12name,xxxxxxxxxxxIO_group_id,0IO_group_name,io_grp0status,onlinemdisk_grp_id,0mdisk_grp_name,XXXXXXXPoolcapacity,75161927680....com...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Needs more information

    "Snapshot Written Capacity (GiB)" metric available for reports

    Currently the metric "Snapshot Written Capacity (GiB)" is available to chart under Volume Group->Capacity, but it's not possible to include this metric in a report. This is essential to understand what each VM etc consumes in snapshots, for exa...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

    SIP CVE Tracking

    One singular location where we can track announced CVE's on the DS8000 product line, would help us track and report on exceptions to CVEs across all subsystems in our environment. This seems like a good addition to the new SIP Security Posture rep...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    Storage Scale integration with Storage Insights

    To have fully overview on what is goning on on the ESS/SCALE cluster in a daily operation: And hopfully lead to a single pane of glass for day to day operations File Activity Tracking File Age Distribution File Count and Size Breakdown Snapshots O...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Not under consideration

    Storage Insight Product update

    Pure Storage new products are not reflected in existing IBM Storage insight. This is limiting the monitoring other vendor products. New Model: Pure FlashBlade//E to be added in Storage Insight
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

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