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The QSYS2.WATCH_INFO and QSYS2.WATCH_DETAIL views were delivered in fall 2020 with with IBM i 7.4 PTF Group level 10 and IBM i 7.3 PTF Group level 22.
The CAAC has reviewed this requirement and recommends that IBM view this as a medium priority requirement that should be addressed. Watches are fantastic and should be more widely used -- implementing this RFE would help foster adoption of watches.
Background: The COMMON Americas Advisory Council (CAAC) members have a broad range of experience in working with small and medium-sized IBM i customers. CAAC has a key role in working with IBM i development to help assess the value and impact of individual RFEs on the broader IBM i community, and has therefore reviewed your RFE.
For more information about CAAC, see www.common.org/caac
For more details about CAAC's role with RFEs, see http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/Blogs/i-Can/May-2017/COMMON-Americas-Advisory-Council-%28CAAC%29-and-RFEs/
Nancy Uthke-Schmucki - CAAC Program Manager
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 - IBM i
Component - Db2 for i
Operating system - IBM i
Source - COMMON
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Power Systems
Product - IBM i
Component - Core OS
Operating system - IBM i
Source - COMMON
Hi Dawn, just for fun, I wrote a WATCHLIST() UDTF this week. It returns a lot of info, but not 100% since the number of messages it can monitor is variable, I only return the first one. But most of the Watch status information is returned. You can get it in our iQuery tool here: www.SQLiQuery.com
All the necessary API's exist so you could easily write it yourself (or ask someone else).
It's a bit stupid to waste IBM resources on this in my opinion.