Description of the illustration initsynccopy.jpg

This graphic shows loading data from file to Replicat. To use Replicat to establish the target data, you use an initial-load Extract to extract source records from the source tables and write them to an extract file in canonical format. From the file, an initial-load Replicat loads the data using the database interface. During the load, the change-synchronization groups extract and replicate incremental changes, which are then reconciled with the results of the load. During the load, the records are applied to the target database one record at a time, so this method may be considerably slower than using a native DB2 for i load utility. This method permits data transformation to be done on either the source or target system.