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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 24, 2018

Power 9+ Thunderbolt hardware support

In addition to USB support on Power Systems, Thunderbolt support will be welcomed in future iterations of the Power hardware offerings.

Idea priority Medium
  • Admin
    Carmelita Ruvalcaba Cevallos
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    Feb 6, 2023

    It may be looked at for future Power systems.

  • Guest
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    May 16, 2018

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Power Systems
    Product - Systems Design
    Component - Systems Design
    Operating system - IBM i
    Source - None

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Power Systems
    Product - IBM i
    Component - Hardware
    Operating system - IBM i
    Source - None