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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Populate contact info for ticket creation from Storage Insights

Current ticket creation workflow from SI relies on the user entering name, email, phone number for each ticket. This data is used to find a matching support contact to use for the case. Customers get confused when the support ticket ends up opened...
3 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Support for SI and SI PRO entitled storage sytsems in ONE instance - with SI PRO capabilities switched on / off according to system entitlement

As of today, we cannot have a mixture of SI and SI PRO entitled storage systems in one environment. SI and SI PRO entitled storage systems can reside in one SI instance, but to exploit SI PRO capabilities, a second SI instance for SI PRO entitled ...
20 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Provides a way to change the instance name, which is visible on the new Carbon-based UI.

An instance name is assigned when it is created and deployed. While it was not visible on the classic UI, it is clearly visible on the new Carbon-based UI which would surprises most customers; most customers would not remember they had chosen the ...
8 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

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...
27 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Assign an alias right at instance creation

When customers set up an SI instance and invite IBMers, the tiles in the dashboard all look alike. If an IBMer has been invited to more than one instance it's impossible to tell which one belongs to which customer. While there is a way for an admi...
2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Submitted

Display the "IOPs limit" parameter in Storage Insights.

The lsvdisk command gives the information # svcinfo lsvdisk -delim , -gui -bytes 12 Tue Apr 15 11:22:05 PDT 2025id,12name,xxxxxxxxxxxIO_group_id,0IO_group_name,io_grp0status,onlinemdisk_grp_id,0mdisk_grp_name,XXXXXXXPoolcapacity,75161927680....com...
2 months 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...
8 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

SI does not provide a way to investigate "Error" or "Warning" statuses in the "Health status" column for virtual machines.

IBM Storage Insights currently does not explain or provide a way to investigate "Error" or "Warning" statuses in the "Health status" column for virtual machines. As a result, administrators must manually check vCenter Server for details. Please en...
16 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

SIPro to trigger SGCs on FlashSystem when malware is detected

To have a fast SGC triggered when malware is detected, we should enable SIPro to trigger such without Defender DRS. Now this can be done with webhooks- that requires no out-of-the-box solution and a lot of customization.
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 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
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

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