Re: Replicating Data Between IBM i Prod and Dev

[Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob, 

That sounds like a potentially nice approach. 

Thanks for the input.

Regards,
Richard Schoen
Web: http://www.richardschoen.net
Email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 
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message: 2
date: Fri, 27 Sep 2024 16:48:35 -0400
from: Robert Rogerson <rogersonra@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Replicating Data Between IBM i Prod and Dev

Hi Richard,

The approach taken at one customer I've worked at is that every Sunday morning they restore all the data from the last production backup (which is still on site) to the development environment.  This is only data libs.

Then they have programs that run that reduce/delete data that is not really needed in dev.
It works pretty good as often you can test/debug with data that is only a week old in dev.

Rob

On Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 4:35?PM Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> HI All,
>
> Customer wants to regularly refresh data between Production and Dev 
> systems.  (Once every few weeks be able to refresh)
>
> Please give me some ideas on best practices.
>
> I can think of:
> -Replication software. (Probably the MOST up to date) -Save/restore 
> libraries between systems with save files -Use DDM files to move data.
>
> Please share your strategies to keep test data relatively fresh on 
> your dev systems.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Richard Schoen
> Web: http://www.richardschoen.net<http://www.richardschoen.net/>
> Email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>