Skip to Main Content
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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

ADD A NEW IDEA

IBM Storage Insights

Showing 160

The 'System Down' field is not specified when Storage Insights is used to open a support ticket

When using Storage Insights to create a ticket for a monitored storage system, there is nowhere to specify a value for 'System Down' field. Depending on the device type, the 'System Down' field may be a required field in the IBM Support Portal, in...
about 6 hours ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

REST API to get performance metrics (including RPO) for volume groups

Need a REST API to get the performance metrics for volume groups that are displayed in Storage Insights. This includes the RPO metrics.
8 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Ability to open a case for Storage Insights via Storage Insights

Request to allow a user to open a support case for Storage Insights using Storage Insights. Storage Insights is able to open support cases for the IBM block storage systems but it does not have an option to open a support case for itself. As a res...
5 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

add graphs to reports

when creating performance reports and chosing PDF or HTML as the preferred format, it would be very helpful to include a graph of the selected metrics as well. (much like in the upper half of the SI performance view.)
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

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
26 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Under review

Storage Insights Ceph integration : To show all meta data

Full fledged Ceph-SI integration with complete meta data collection of the Ceph cluster including Capacity, Performance metrics. Also to include ticketing, advisories, L2/L3 view features. Samsung / Joyent customer has requested for this.
21 days ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Submitted

Rename the Custom tag 1 (2 and 3)

Resources -> Block Storage Systems -> Select a Storage ->View Properties is showing the fields: Custom Tag 1 Custom Tag 2 Custom Tag 3 Resources -> Pools -> Select a Pool -> View Properties is also showing the fields named: Custo...
2 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Future consideration

Webhook support for more than ransomware alerts

It could be useful to have Storage Insights able to push events details to third-party URL whenever an alert is raised or when any event is triggered. This would push the integration of Storage Insights further with ticketing or any other event ma...
4 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Planned for future release

Interactive performance charts

My general approach to performance cases is to select a rough wide timeline, and then to zoom in on the time of interest. The time selection in SI is a bit fiddly and not always the best user experience, especially if you have to do it multiple ti...
3 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 0 Under review

Alert notification from Storage Insight for RPO violation.

RPO violation notification can be very helpful to customer and MSP to do required action on time.
5 months ago in IBM Storage Insights 1 Under review