CICS IA affinity-related components
The figure shows how the affinity-related components of CICS® IA relate to each other.
Refer to CICS IA dependency-related components for
the Collector structure.
Figure 1. The reporting
structure of the CICS IA affinity-related
components

CICS IA includes the following affinity-related components:
- The Collector
- The Collector is
a CICS transaction that runs
in your CICS region and intercepts
selected CICS and non-CICS
programming commands. Depending on what you have specified, it records,
in an MVS™ data space, details
of either of the following:
- The potential affinities created by the commands
- The resources used by the commands
You can collect both dependency data and affinity data on the same region at the same time. The dependency data, affinity data, or both are saved to VSAM files.
- The Affinity database objects
- The Affinity database objects contain data extracted from the VSAM affinity files created by the Collector. It is updated periodically to add data from new or infrequently run applications.
- The CICS IA plug-in for CICS Explorer
- The CICS IA plug-in provides a graphical front end to CICS IA. For more information about the CICS IA plug-in, see the IBM® CICS IA plug-in for CICS Explorer User Guide.
- The Affinities Reporter
- The
Affinities Reporter is
a batch utility that you can use to do any of the following:
- Convert the affinity data in the Affinity database objects into reports in a readable format.
- Convert the affinity data in the VSAM files into reports in a readable format. You might use this function if, for example, you do not have DB2®.
- From the affinity data, in the Affinity database objects, create a file of affinity-transaction-group definitions in a syntax approximating to the batch API of CICSPlex® SM. This file is intended as input to the Builder component.
- The Builder
- The Builder is a batch utility that takes as input the file of basic affinity-transaction-group definitions created by the Affinities Reporter. It produces a file of "combined" affinity-transaction-group definitions suitable for input to CICSPlex SM, which requires that a specific CICS transaction ID (TRANSID) is in only one transaction group.