After 15+ years of working with the IBM i line of servers (AS/400, System I, iSeries, etc), I have never coded a data replication scheme. I have always relied on 3rd party utilities to handle this for me. I have used SAVOBJ and RSTOBJ before, but only in scenarios where I'm not replacing existing objects. That being said, I restored a PF (PF only) to a test library, and it seems to have renamed the existing PF to MYFILE0001 and ensured the existing LF's were still associated with the renamed PF. I tried digging through documentation and various posts on the web and it seems I cannot simply restore a PF to a target system without having to somehow manage the attached LF's....or can I? I was thinking of looking into FTP'ing the PF from the source machine to the target machine but wasn't sure of the implications/impact.
What would be the best way (without 3rd party tools) to replicate data from a production machine to a test machine (once-a-day replication is suitable for our needs)?
What would be the best way (without 3rd party tools) to replicate data from a production machine to a test machine (once-a-day replication is suitable for our needs)?
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