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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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IBM Storage Insights

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zHyperlink health status needs to be monitored and reported by Storage Insights

zHyperlink ports are not monitored or reported by Insights. The main advantage of Insights is the ability to see the status of all our boxes from one screen. Except that in this case, we still need to go back to all individual DS8K GUI's to double...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Create alerting's for any of the CPU core

Alerting on one CPU core % utilization can be very useful to detect possible issues the system As SpecV device can have up to 32 CPU core this means that user need to select and configure one alert for each of the core. As the threshold will be th...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Units of Measurements in Storage Data to be displayed in Base 10

It would be greatly helpful for the Resource Unit Billing teams and IBM user group to see the option of selecting the Storage Metrics display using Base 10, in addition to Base 2 that currently exist.
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Future consideration

Ticket overview in Storage Insights

We would like to have the possibility to view all tickets, open ongoing tickets and closed aswell in the same window. As for now we have no overview to see all tickets but we have to manually open the "Tickets" tab under each system.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

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 ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Add SI Support for 32Gb SAN Switches (IBM c-type)

Spectrum Control and Storage Insights for Spectrum Control do not support 32Gb IBM c-type switches. Clients require support for IBM/Cisco MDS switches. Specifically IBM SAN48c-6 (Cisco MDS9148T) and IBM SAN96C-6 (Cisco MDS9396T).
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Storage Insights doesn't collect performance data often enough

Storage Insights can collect performance data no more frequently than every minute. Some storage devices, such as Spectrum Virtualize, collect data more frequently than that. Since some performance events take place on the scale of seconds, it is ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Planned for future release

Option to turn off sending report attachments as a zip file

Currently when you create a report in SI and chose to have it emailed, attachments are always sent as a zip file. Clients that block file attachment extensions at the domain level are unable to receive these reports.
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Provide IBM Storage Insights collectors to run in zCX

The Itau bank is one of largest GDPS and DS8K user and the Storage Insights is a strategic product to monitor the DASD performance. We have the license and we are starting the implementation of ZCX. Nowadays the Storage Insights is using Windows S...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Future consideration

Detection of unbalanced metrics for spectrum virtualize machine

example 1In spectrum virtualize family , IO group is made of two nodes.Usually the metrics of those two nodes should be about similar, if two nodes (of the same IO group) are showing very different value for same metric this may be the sign for a ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration