The Affinities view displays an alphabetical list of resources with potential affinities related to the target object.
CICS® transactions and programs use some techniques to exchange data that require those transactions or programs to run in the same CICS region, or in a specific CICS region. The result of such requirements is restrictions on the regions to which transactions and distributed program link (DPL) requests can be dynamically routed. If transactions or programs exchange data in ways that impose such restrictions, these are known as affinities between them.
Information about the currently selected affinity is displayed in the Properties view.
Right-click the item that you want to view the affinities for and click Show Affinities By Type. The Show Affinities By Type menu is linked to the type of object that is currently selected, rather than the view the object is in. You can also right-click in the Programs, Regions, and Transactions view to display the affinities menu items.
For more information about affinities, see Viewing affinities.