Running the Builder

The CICS® IA Builder runs as a batch job to build affinity-transaction-group definitions suitable for input to the CICS system management product, CICSPlex® SM.

The Builder takes as input a set of files containing basic affinity transaction groups, combines those groups, and produces a file containing combined affinity transaction groups. CICSPlex SM requires a transaction identifier to be in one transaction group only, and the Builder satisfies this by combining groups that contain the same transaction identifier.

You can use the CICS IA Affinities Reporter to produce files of basic transaction affinity groups for input to the Builder. The input to the Reporter, in the Affinity database objects, can be from several runs of the Collector, for example, against a production CICS region and a test CICS region, but must be for the same workload.

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