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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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 create Custom Folders to store reports

    Would like ability to create custom folders to store created reports other than the default folders provided. We have to scroll through a great number of reports to find those previously created.There is also no filter to help find generated repor...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Allow Storage Insights to recieve and pass on notifications from other tools such as CSM

    The idea is to make SI the single pain of glass for the entire storage environment. An example would be for it to log notification from CSM when replicated volumes go out of sync. This would reduce the number of IBM tools the customer has to setup...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    The DS8 screens need to account for Journal Date when showing capacity

    The current screens do not account for journal data when showing capacity numbers. This can lead to confusion. SI can show a DS8 is only 50% full but if it is doing replication with journal volumes it may spike up to higher at times. Meaning the c...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Planned for future release

    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

    Easy way open IBM case for IBM Brocade SAN switch via Insight manager

    Currently, we have different models of Brocade SAN switches and FCIP routers purchased from IBM. The challenge is that when we need to open a case for hardware or software issues, it must be done through the IBM PMR portal. If this process could b...
    11 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Add ability to schedule the capacity growth forecast report

    The capacity growth forecast report is currently a manually generated report which cannot be scheduled to be generated and delivered on a monthly basis for example.
    over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    Update device password through the REST API

    Per Security policy the passwords on our Brocade switches need to be changed every 90 days. With more than 200 Switches in the environment, its not feasible to change the password through an User Interface, whereby we have automated the password c...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Under review

    IBM Storage Insights - Provide the Data Collector as a Docker Image

    To simplify the deployment of the collector and run it on the Mainframe offer this software package as a Docker Container so it can be simply deployed to zCX or OpenShift (RHOSCP).This keeps the data collector close to the environment where it col...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    Storage Insights Global Mirror Average RPO Metric Request

    It would provide great value if Storage Insights could capture Consistency Group detail in the “Copy Data” section from the hardware and use that data to provide an Average RPO value by SYSPLEX or Consistency Group. Further, having the ability to ...
    10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Planned for future release

    For tickets that are showing on Storage Insights have a hyperlink to the IBM ticket

    This will eliminate the need to copy and paste the ticket number into the IBM support site. The hyperlink will take you there eliminating the copy paste process as well as saving time
    12 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Not under consideration

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