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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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Add the ability to track licensing of SCU and TiB in Storage Insights

With the move to adopt SI and eliminate the need for an on-prem Spectrum Control instance, one area that we cannot track in SI is Licensing. Today in Control we can list out all 4 tiers and usage of SCU and TiB. This report is useful for yearly su...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Spectrum Control Storage Insights to have multiple data collection targets for a single Spectrum Scale Environment

Currently Spectrum Control Storage Insights, can only target one Spectrum Scale node for data collection.
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Add aborted command/transfer metrics to SI

Spec V systems don't incorporate response time metrics into the performance stats for IOs that were aborted. The hosts would have actually been impacted by these IOs because IOs are typically aborted once they have hit some kind of timeout value. ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Add Storage Insights button/pill to CSP case for SAN Switch (Cisco and Broadcom)

IBM sold fiber channel switches (Cisco and Broadcom), are part of Storage Insights, however we do not have the Storage Insights button with direct link in the CSP cases. We do have such pill/button on our Storage Products, but they are missing for...
7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Dashboard "Volumes" option like On-Prem

In the On-Prem version of Insights (Spectrum Control), we have the "Volumes" option under "Storage" tab on dashboard panel which displays all the volumes from multiple IBM SVC clusters but can't find that on the cloud version. Can you please have ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Not under consideration

Storage Insights should not report a node is in error status, if the cluster is being upgraded.

If a cluster is being updated, all of the nodes are going to be offline at some point. That is expected. One shouldn't receive a notice that "Storage System Node Status Is Error ". SI should know that an upgrade is being performed, so it doesn't n...
over 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Track data collector upgrade attempts (successful and failed)

Storage Insights records the time of the last data collector upgrade and upgrade version on the data collectors panel, but it does not record task activity or audit log entries for attempts to upgrade the data collectors. This activity should be r...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Storage Insights - Add individual server performance stats

Request for Storage Insights and Spectrum Control to be able to provide individual server performance statistics. Currently SI and SC cannot provide individual performance statistics for a specific host. When you look at the servers, they are show...
12 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Include affected resources in alert Payload to ServiceNow

Upon initial configuration of the ServiceNow integration, it appears that affected resources are not included in the alert payload that is sent to ServiceNow. Current implementation only appears to have: { "severity", "subcategory", "name", "occur...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Storage Insight Reports over all disks on all storage systems

Problem to solve the question: Do I have a storage system with a disk affected by a certain (faulty) firmware? SI is a central inventory system, which already collects the data of all storage systems and has this information already. It's a common...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Submitted