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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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Selectable location for Cloud instance (compliancy with regulations - showstopper to use SI)

Banking customer requires their Storage Insights instance to be hosted in Europe. If not, they are not allowed to use Storage Insights. Customer would therefore also have to be able to select the location for their instance.
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Please sign Insights with an IBM certificate - security apps block Insights binaries

Security software like Bit9 block Insights binaries. Insights binaries are blocked even after whitelisted by security admins because Insights files are copied to different folder than the installation folder. Also, automatic updates are not possib...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Future consideration

Add DA pair column to DS8000 drives listing

Please add a DA pair column to DS8000 drives (DDM) listings. Within a DS8000, spare drives are restricted to the device adapters they are connected to. And each device adapter pair has a number of available spares, usually 4. It is threrefore impo...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Trend Analysis where we can identify sites that continue to have lag time issues

This request came from CSP case = TS008545343 via client We have a business need to provide trend analysis on approximately 20 sites like SOCMGM that use replication to their respective DR sites. Below is a sample of what we run daily but this is ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Additional Filter Option for Storage Insights under RC Relationships.

When creating a automated report within SI, the section under remote copy / Remote Copy Relationships, I need a filter option to show and report on only RC Relationships that is not part of any RC Groups. The aim of this report is to report on RC ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

e-mail notification when "Data collector interruption " is resolved

User can chose to receive a notification when "Data collector interruption for IBM Storage Insights" is resolved
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

SC/SI don't offer more OS options for hosts

Host objects in SI and SC have some default options for OS type and a catchall for "Other."
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

SI no longer shows data collection logs

Recent versions of SI have removed the ability to view data collection logs.
over 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Global Mirror volume write throughput

Need an ability to see the Global Mirror Volumes listed on "Copy Data Screen" under General Tab. Also, need a total value of Global Mirror auxiliary volume write throughput as mentioned in the following webpage: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectru...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Need to add the total number of nodes and enclosures column to the array tabular view

Today its a common ask in a large environment how many total enclosures or nodes are in a cluster and the only option is to drill into each cluster. Under internal resources we actually have total nodes and enclosures displayed. But this can take ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration