To manage transaction affinities in a dynamic routing environment, you must first discover which transactions have affinities. How do you do this?
The recommended way is to use the CICS Interdependency Analyzer
to detect
affinities. The CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS User's Guide and Reference describes the utility and how to use it.
If you do not use the utility, you can use one of the following methods to detect affinities, although you are strongly recommended to use the utility.
Application generators may give rise to particularly difficult problems of inter-transaction affinity: