International Business Machines Corporation
DATA REFRESH IN A REPLICATION ENVIRONMENT

Abstract:

Data refresh in a replication environment is provided by: reading, by a data services component of a replication environment as part of a data refresh operation, a data store and identifying refresh data, from a source object of source objects of the data store, that is to be provided to a target system, where the data services component is further configured to read a replication log into which changes to source object(s) of the source objects are recorded, and send the changes as change data records to a capture service; and retrieving, by the data services component, the refresh data from the source object and sending the refresh data as refresh data records to the capture service, where the capture service is configured with data record handling routines for applying to received change data records and to the received refresh data records.