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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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ALL volume view

As a spectrum control user there's the option to view ALL volumes without drilling to individual storage systems, This would be a very useful addition so Storage insights
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

To schedule performance reports and to send by mail

As recomendded by @jeff.sanc in case TS019586672, I am submitting this idea because I was a user of the Cognos and Spectrum Control. I used to receive scheduled report by mail everyday with performance report of the storages. In the Storage Insigh...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

SI Data Collector in Windows should not relay on WMIC due to deprecation

The Windows data collector service relies on the WMIC command which has been deprecated since 2016 and it is recommended to replace its use with powershell functions. On newer Windows versions (eg 11 and 2025), WMIC is not installed by default, an...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

There is a need for the Call Home functionality to be managed from Storage Insights.

Customers are reporting a need (due to security teams) for Call Home requests to be fully handled by Storage Insight, not by FlashSystem arrays
almost 2 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Needs more information

make tags avaiable on the storwize that could be used to add volumes to applications groups in insight

we are separating volumes on storwize/fs systems. we are putting them in application groups by os, so we can monitor performance. groups are vmware aix ibmi the problem is adding new volumes on the array, does not add them to the application group...
about 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Extend API support for the STaaS service Dashboard.

The IBM STaaS Service comes with an extra dashboard for Storage Insights Pro. Unfortunately, all information displayed via the Dashboard GUI cannot be obtained via the API. Please extend the API functionality so that all information displayed in t...
8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Add alerting for failed login on storage devices

It would be handy to be able to enable alert policies to send an alert when a user fails to authenticate when attempting to log into a system. I know that can be seen from syslog, but it would be handy to simply trigger an alert in Storage Insight...
over 1 year ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Not under 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 5 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Ability to open a case via Storage Insights for Brocade switches.

Clients are currently unable to open a case to IBM support via Storage Insights for any added to their instance Brocade switch. A feature allowing this would be nice.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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 ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Storage Insights 3 Not under consideration