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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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'Storage System Maintenance Information' view: show more service details in 'Earliest Service Expiration' column to get a quicker overview.

We discussed this esp in context of Expert Care Support - show 'Expert Care Basic - Active' , 'Expert Care Advanced - Active' or 'Expert Care Premium - Active' instead of just 'Expert Care - Active'. This would help clients with a large SI instanc...
about 10 hours ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Hyper-V Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) Performance Metrics

Hyper-V Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) Performance Metrics I have discussions with the clients who have high-density Microsoft Hyper-V environments. The Hyper-V leverages Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) to optimize storage performance. While we can c...
4 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Submitted

On-prem Storage Insights

Last week, I met with a PSU BFSI client and presented IBM Storage Insights (SaaS). We requested them to integrate their storage systems with the Storage Insights SaaS offering. We conducted a detailed technical discussion and whiteboarding session...
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 7 Submitted

Add Iogrp Memory (FlashCopy, Replication, Mirror) as a Capacity item, tracked over time

The Iogrp memory is a limited resource on the flash system (I understand it will continue to be even once memory paging is added), that impacts the system's ability to do basic functions, like taking a snapshot. We should track this over time, so ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Storage Insights subscription alias and tenant name should be identical

When creating a new SI tenant, one has to specify a name. Later on, you may add/change the alias for each tenant in "My IBM --> My products". Unfortunately, this alias has no effect to the tenant name (shown in the SI dashboard). Thus, for the ...
2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Storage Capacity Units (SCU) count for SVC in Storage Insights Pro

Clients get more detail on the actual storage capacity units they consume in SAN Volume Controller to overcome non-compliancy
2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

IBM Storage Insights - Support for TLS 1.3

Currently the highest version of TLS supported is TLS 1.2 only. This is to request TLS 1.3 support for the collector. Disabling the collection of metadata for devices that use TLS 1.0 or 1.1 - IBM Documentation only mentions TLS1.2 which will be u...
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

IBM Storage Insights - Provide the Data Collector as a Docker Image

To simplify the deployment of the collector and run it on the Mainframe offer this software package as a Docker Container so it can be simply deployed to zCX or OpenShift (RHOSCP).This keeps the data collector close to the environment where it col...
about 1 month 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 ...
10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Not under consideration

hardware inventory report in Storage Insights

Kindly build mechanism to have one click hardware inventory report for assets configured for Storage Insights. No tool available in IBM portfolio to pull inventory of all assets configured.
about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 2 Needs more information