The CICS® Transaction
Affinities Utility is not supplied with CICS TS for z/OS®, Version 3.1.
Its functions of detecting and reporting transaction affinities are now provided
by the CICS Interdependency
Analyzer, which is a more sophisticated tool.
Using the CICS Interdependency
Analyzer, you can:
- Identify the sets of resources used by individual CICS transactions, and their relationships
to other resources. This enables you to understand the make-up of your application
set: you can see what a CICS region contains; what resources a transaction needs
in order to run; which programs use which resources; and which resources are
no longer used. Thus your ability to maintain, enhance, modify, or redistribute
your applications is much improved.
- Identify possible transaction affinities. Affinities require particular
groups of transactions to be run either in the same CICS region, or in a particular region.
The ability to identify transaction affinities is useful in a dynamic routing
environment: you need to know of any restrictions that prevent particular
transactions being routed to particular application-owning regions (AORs);
or that require particular transactions to be routed to particular AORs.
For more information about the CICS Interdependency Analyzer, see the CICS Interdependency
Analyzer User's Guide and Reference.