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Keyboard using BMC -- KVM : additional languages

Hello IBM, when using the KVM within OpenBMC Gui, US keyboard is default and no way to change the setting. The idea is to support other keyboard settings too. It would be easiest if the settings of the HMC regarding language and keyboard are taken...
12 months ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

warning in advance before making chaanges that will disable profile sync

Profile sync is a very helpful feature so it would be nice if when making changes that will disable the feature we could get a warning pop-up when pressing save saying something like "saving this config will disable profile synchronization" in the...
almost 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Offer Windows USB recovery media tool for the HMC

IBM only offer a Linux method of creating a USB bootable recovery image for the HMC (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6454883). It would be good to have a media creation tool for Windows which can take the ISO recovery image and format the U...
almost 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

lslogon: extend attributes "Running Tasks, Access Location, Notes" like in UI

lslogon useful for script automation therefor same attributes like in UI would be more consistent.
about 2 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Redesign HMC welcome text to be unformatted or allow HTML tags

The HMC welcome text is automatically reformatted in the HMC web interface and does not met the layout conform the input file. This RFE propose a redesign of the HMC web user interface to allow: - Create a button to allow unformatted text so the l...
about 3 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

bkprofdata archive option NFS

Add archive option NFS for bkprofdata.
over 4 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Add multiple FRU replacement

Option to remove multiple FRU in in HMC GUI but, when clicking "Launch Procedure", HSCS0346 returns and my whole process is ignored. This should allow me to do so, as the GUI allows me to select multiple FRUs
almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

HMC (CLI): lpar_netboot ipV6 ping test

xreeb000@ZHMC1000:~> chsyscfg -r prof -m BVIO0025 -i "name=normal,lpar_name=VLANTEST,virtual_eth_adapters=2/0/1351//0/1/ETHERNET0" xreeb000@ZHMC1000:~> lpar_netboot -M -A -n -T off -t ent -D -s auto -d auto -S 172.30.51.1 -G 172.30.51.1 -C 1...
almost 5 years ago in Hardware Management Console 1 Future consideration

Manage Data Replication. Allow individual profiles to be sync or not sync

Using Enhanced GUI Under Configure Customize Data Replication, Local Customizable Data Change Warnings, User Profiles Data. The only option is to sync all User Profiles. If we didn't want to sync hscroot or if we only add one user we don't have th...
almost 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

Add option numbers to HMC Call home phone number

We want to be able to add phone number options to the HMC Call home phone number field in the HMC "Manage Customer Information" configuration for IBM Support to be able to quickly contact the correct customer group via phone call on call home aler...
over 6 years ago in Hardware Management Console 0 Future consideration

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