Detecting inter-transaction affinities

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 Start of changeCICS Interdependency AnalyzerEnd of change to detect affinities. The CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS User's Guide and Reference describes the utility and how to use it.

Note:
If you dynamically route program-link requests, you must discover which programs (or their associated transactions) have affinities. You cannot use the Start of changeCICS Interdependency AnalyzerEnd of change to do this.

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.

Inter-transaction affinities caused by application generators

Application generators may give rise to particularly difficult problems of inter-transaction affinity:

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