Hardware Management Console Readme

For use with Version 4 Release 1.0

Date: May 15, 2004

(C) Copyright International Business Machines Corp., 2004 All rights reserved.
 

Introduction

The information in this Readme contains hints and errata information about the Hardware Management Console. It supplements the instructions and descriptions printed in the Hardware Management Console Operations Guide.

                             

Server and Partition:

·      The Workload Management Group function is not supported in this version of the HMC.  A logical partition's Workload Management Group ID will be ignored.

·      If a checkstop occurs on the managed system and the system recovers, but access to that managed system's virtual terminal is lost, do the following to restore the virtual terminal:

1.    On the HMC, right click on the managed system name that lost the virtual terminal.

2.    From the pop-up menu, select "Reset or Remove Connection".

3.    Then select "Reset Connection" and click OK.

·      Under partition property panel, it doesn't not reflect the 'Allow shared processing pool utilization authority' correctly.
Work around: use command line to view this attribute.

·      Dynamic partition configuration for memory move can take a while. During that time, no other operation can be performed.

·      If a partition is running with a virtual SCSI or serial adapter, user cannot change the device attributes (from server to client, client to server) for the next activation.
Work around: Activate without the virtual I/O slot, then later on activate again with the new setting.

·      When selecting multiple I/O slots for dynamic partition configuration, it will stop on the first failure.

·      Unable to remove an I/O slot from an I/O pool to none through profile activation.
Work around: when modify the profile to make this change, users must modify the I/O pool attribute and the priority flag (from desired to required or vice versa).

·      Activate a partition with a profile using all system resources might failed with memory allocation error.
Work around: Try the activation again.

 

HMC Desktop:

·      To launch the browser, right mouse click on the desktop to bring up the menu. Select "Net" and then "Browser".

·      To start a restricted shell terminal, right mouse click on the desktop to bring up the menu. Select "Terminals" and then "rshterm".

 

National Language Support:

·      Mnemonics are not supported in double byte and ru locales.

·      The HMC uses several external components. These components are not developed by the HMC team and are translated as part of a separate translation plan and schedule. The mix of English and translated text is an unavoidable situation and has the potential to occur anytime the HMC is updated or pulls in a new version of an external application that is updated in between its normally scheduled translation cycles. 

·      Korean input is not supported.

·      Traditional and Simplified Chinese input is supported. Press CTRL-Space to switch between English and Chinese  input mode. Press CTRL-Shift to select an input method. Press space bar to see more Chinese characters.

·      Japanese input is supported. Press Shift-Space to switch between English and Japanese input mode.

·      User ID, User information, HMC User password, Partition name, managed system name, profile name and system  profile name are in English only.

·      IBM275 doesn't work well when connecting from IBM Personal Communications or iSeries Access to an HMC. Use another Brazil codepage. The codepage "IBM930 Japan Katakana" doesn't work well either. Use "IBM930 Japan Katakana Extended" instead.

·      An ibm5250 session opened on the HMC locally will be in the same locale as the one that is set for the HMC. To open a session in a different locale, change the HMC locale first, logout, login and then invoke ibm5250. The other option is to connect to the HMC using a remote emulator, e.g. IBM Personal Communications or iSeries Access, in the desired locale.

·      Power On/Off Unit function under Service Focal Point -> Service Utilities is in English only.

  • The table below indicates which locales are supported and are not supported for each of the 15 languages in which the V4 R1 HMC is currently available. 

Note: For each of the locales that is not supported in the V4 R1 HMC the numeric, date, time, calendar and currency formats that are specific to a given locale may not be displayed as expected.

 

 

Languages

 

Supported or

Not Supported

 

Locales

English

Supported:

en_US, en_GB

 

Not Supported:

en_GB@euro, en_AU, en_BE, en_BE@preeuro, en_CA,      en_HK, en_INe, en_IE, en_IE@preeuro, en_NZ, en_PH,       en_PK, en_ZA, en_SG

German

Supported:

de_DE, de_DE@euro, de_CH

 

Not Supported:

de_AT, de_AT@euro, de_LU, de_LU@euro

French

Supported:

fr_FR, fr_FR@euro, fr_CH, fr_CA, fr_BE, fr_BE@euro

 

Not Supported:

fr_LU, fr_LU@euro

Italian

Supported:

it_IT, it_IT@euro

 

Not Supported:

it_CH

Spanish

Supported:

es_ES, es_ES@euro

 

Not Supported:

es_AR, es_BO, es_CL, es_CO, es_CR, es_DO, es_EC,es_SV, es_GT, es_HN, es_MX, es_NI, es_PA, es_PY,es_PE, es_PR, es_US, es_UY,es_VE

Brazilian Portuguese

Supported:

pt_BR

 

Not Supported:

 

Japanese

Supported:

ja_JP

 

Not Supported:

 

Simplified Chinese

Supported:

zh_CN

 

Not Supported:

zh_SG

Traditional Chinese

Supported:

zh_TW

 

Not Supported:

zh_HK

Korean

Supported:

ko_KR

 

Not Supported:

 

Hungarian

Supported:

hu_HU

 

Not Supported:

 

Dutch

Supported:

nl_NL, nl_NL@euro, nl_BE, nl_BE@euro

 

Not Supported:

 

Russian

Supported:

ru_RU

 

Not Supported:

 

Czech

Supported:

cs_CZ

 

Not Supported:

 

Slovakian

Supported:

sk_SK

 

Not Supported:

 

 

 

HMC Users:

·      After a user creates an LPAR, if the LPAR is not included in the user's Managed Resource Role(s), the user won't be able to manage or even view the LPAR  in this version of HMC.

 

Miscellaneous Functions:

·      Help Search is not supported. However, Find is supported for Help.

·      Printing is not supported.

·      The numerical keypad on some keyboards doesn't work. Use the normal numerical keys instead.