The Affinities view displays an alphabetic list of the resources with potential affinities related to the target object. CICS® transactions and programs use many different techniques to pass data from one to another. Some of these techniques require that the transactions or programs that exchange data must run in the same CICS region. This imposes 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, there is said to be an affinity among them. You can use the Affinities view to display these affinities.
Information about the selected affinities is displayed in the Properties view.
Right-click the item that you want to view the affinities for and select 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 the Using Affinities topic.