IBM System Storage Ideas Portal


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IBM Storage Insights

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    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
    4 days 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 ...
    6 days 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...
    5 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

    Enhance the "Storage system performance monitor status" error message by adding potential causes and recommendations

    Today, an error (critical) is raised for "Storage system performance monitor status" without explanations or details. It is difficult for the users to understand the cause, the impact and the possible resolution related to this error. Many other e...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    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 ...
    8 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Not under consideration

    Storage Insights Global Mirror Average RPO Metric Request

    It would provide great value if Storage Insights could capture Consistency Group detail in the “Copy Data” section from the hardware and use that data to provide an Average RPO value by SYSPLEX or Consistency Group. Further, having the ability to ...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Planned for future release

    Alerts notifications by mail should include all details for the alert and not only the link to the Aler in the SI instance

    SI alert notifications by mail should include the full description/details of the alert and not only the link to the alert in the SI instance. With this you will have at good overview of the "problem" with all details and no need to go to SI insta...
    6 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

    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...
    10 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 4 Needs more information

    Support request for Tx and Rx power metrics on SAN switches to monitor possibly faulty SFP transceivers

    One of my customers wants to monitor the SFP transceivers' power levels, both transmit and receive, on their SAN switches, because they have had link failure issues caused by faulty transceivers in the past. I know it is hard to diagnose those iss...
    5 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

    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. The user might get confused when the support ticket ends up o...
    7 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

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