The Data Replication Console is a graphical user interface. From the Data Replication Console, you can create replication configurations and schedules, start and stop replication schedules and tasks, and monitor replication jobs. Informatica recommends that you use the Console for creating configurations because it guides you through the configuration creation process and validates some entries.
You can run the Data Replication Console standalone on any Windows computer system as long as the Console has JDBC connectivity to the source or target system.
To update the source and target metadata for existing configurations that are saved as XML files, you can use the Replication Configuration Command Line Interface (CLI) instead of the Data Replication Console. This CLI runs on a Linux, UNIX, or Window machine. For more information, see
Updating Configurations in the Replication Configuration CLI.