Scenarios: Using watch support with traces

You can enhance the i5/OS^® trace functions, such as communications trace and job trace, by using watch support.

• Scenario: Using watch support with a communications trace
  Suppose that Telnet sessions are dropping intermittently on the system, but nothing else seems to be wrong. When the sessions drop, message TCP2617 is sent to the QSYS/QSYSOPR message queue. To solve the problem, you need to perform a communications trace using watch support.

• Scenario: Using watch support with a job trace
  Assume that you write a sockets server application that occasionally fails. When the application fails, the TCP3B04 socket API error is sent to the job log. To solve the problem, you need to perform a job trace using watch support.

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