CICS® IA provides a number of utilities to help you
to understand and resolve your CICS region Affinities when
you implement CPSM Work Load balancing. You can also view the affinities.
Creating an affinity report
You can create an affinity report in XML format for one
or more regions, for one or more affinity types. To create an affinity
report, you can use the Regions view or the Report
Explorer view.
Building a CICSPlex SM Workload Manager transaction group file
You can build a CICSPlex® SM
Workload Manager (WLM) transaction group file in XML format that contains
affinity-transaction-group definitions that are suitable for input
to CICSPlex SM. To build
a CICSPlex SM WLM transaction
group file, you use the Report Explorer view.
Deploying transaction group definitions to CICSPlex SM
After you build a CICSPlex SM
Workload Manager (WLM) transaction group file that contains affinity-transaction-group
definitions that are suitable for input to CICSPlex SM, you can deploy the transaction
group definitions to a CICSplex.
Viewing affinities
You can view resources with potential affinities. This
facility is useful for users of CICS dynamic
routing, and for application programmers.