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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    Background Processes not visible in SVC-GUI (Code Level 8.7.0.1)

    Hello Team. A few weeks ago we upgraded one of our SVC's from code level 8.6.0.3 to 8.7.0.1. Since we are on 8.7.0.1 (also happened with code level 8.6.0.3) we are wondering why no background processes (such like vdisk mirroring, volume formatting...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Virtualize / FlashSystem 5 Needs more information

    Show Buffer-Credit configured per Switch-Port

    Provide a column on the switch port page with the configured buffer credits. This would help to prove a virtualize configuration or to identify a possible congerstion source.
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Needs more information

    SFP warning and info alerts should be elevated to higher status in system monitoring

    We have had 2 SEV1 incidents at our org due to SFP's malfunctioning but not failing. When SFP's begin showing lower voltage or abnormal TX or RX specs, these need to be elevated to be a system health issue for IBM Brocade Storage switches. This is...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Needs more information

    Use proxy server for accessing IBM updates

    To enhance security, and keep access to internet to a minimum, a proxy server should be used to obtain fixes and updates. This will allow for automatic updates for systems that are more locked down than usual.
    over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 2 Needs more information

    Add a link to "view details" of a system directly from the dashboard (without having to choose a component).

    The dashboards in Storage Insights are nice; however, it feels cumbersome to be looking at a storage system in the dashboard and then have to navigate to Resources --> Block Storage Systems to then select the same system to view the details. I ...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Needs more information

    hardware inventory report in Storage Insights

    Kindly build mechanism to have one click hardware inventory report for assets configured for Storage Insights. No tool available in IBM portfolio to pull inventory of all assets configured.
    12 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Needs more information

    Interval of "compressionThreshold"

    In CVC 375851, DS8k CLI Development had asked to address these 3 requests from the customer via RFE ----------------------------------------------------------------1.) The command of "chextpool -compressionThreshold nn Px" is already included in t...
    about 1 month ago in IBM DS8000 0 Needs more information

    IBM INsights : volume level capacity metrics for an array and a specific volume in the array

    we is looking for volume level capacity metrics, especially, for an array and a specific volume in the array , how is the volume capacity changes over a week / month etc this is very important feature to be available in metrics during the performa...
    3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Needs more information

    Please notify the IBM storage End of Availability (EOA) and End of Support (EOS) service dates through the Storage Insight Manager.

    Currently, we are managing multiple IBM storage systems of different models located at various sites. These devices were purchased from different business partners. Often, we are unaware of the exact EOA (End of Availability) and EOS (End of Suppo...
    4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Needs more information

    Concurrent upgrade with Ds8k and 21st Century software VSE

    Concurrent upgrade with Ds8k as a storage for 21st Century software VSE ZOS
    4 months ago in IBM DS8000 1 Needs more information

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