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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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Ideas

Request to support Spectrum Control on OLVM guest VM

As many customer looking forward from OLVM solution , Request to support Spectrum Control on OLVM guest VM was discussed. This includes support for setting up the Spectrum Control application and also the data migration from VMWare based VM to OLV...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Flashsystem Volume Group metric replicated blocks should be displayed in MiB/s

The replicated blocks metric under Flashsystem volume groups represents the data rate the data is being replicated to the remote system. All other metrics in SI represent data rate as MiB/s and this should be the same for volume groups.
5 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Enable TS7700 monitoring, alerting, and reporting from Storage Insights

For a more complete view of overall storage asset health, capacity, and utilization status from a single source, including the capability for TS7700 and TS4500 tape storage assets to take advantage of the same reporting, alerting, and automation S...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Add observability and alerting for queue full conditions on IBM Flashsytem arrays

Problem statement. Pool response times reach up to 100ms but there is no insight as to the cause. IBM support were engaged and identified the cause to be queue full condition on the front-end per TS019735977.It is a frustration to know there is a ...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Interactive performance charts

My general approach to performance cases is to select a rough wide timeline, and then to zoom in on the time of interest. The time selection in SI is a bit fiddly and not always the best user experience, especially if you have to do it multiple ti...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

consolidated ticket overview

In environments with many devices it would be very handy to have a consolidated view showing the status for all tickets of all devices. A simple table view would do, showing for example the device name, number of open tickets, number of closed tic...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Under review

Allow Federation Authentication with Storage Insights

Allow Federation Authentication with Storage Insights. This is a requirement by our Cyber team to control access to our Storage Insights instance. We had opened TS021203790 to enable this feature, but the responded that the option is not available...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Submitted

SI "New Experience": add option to export graphs on storage system overview dashboard

customer would like to export a daily graph of the top 10 vols data rate, of the last 24h
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Request to identify RTD acknowledgement separately in audit log

Currently in Storage Insights it displays the ACKNOWLEDGE_ALERTS / UNACKNOWLEDGE_ALERTS actions, but it does not explicitly indicate whether the action was performed on a RTD alert or a general alert. However, the logs do include the initiator ID ...
6 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Add the ability to accept a callhome Flash system block device via Rest API

We are trying to automate tasks across nearly 80 systems, and this number grows with each release. Currently, accepting each system manually through the SI UI is time-consuming. We aim to automate this process using the REST API and validate the i...
12 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration