Migration enhancements

Learn about the new features and functionality offered by WebSphere Commerce Version 7 that reduce the complexity of your migration tasks. Migration enhancements in Version 7.0 include: database migration performance improvements, the ability to migrate IBM Sales Center using the installation wizard and programming model enhancements. In addition, Version 7 feature packs provide Management Center migration enhancements.

Management Center migration enhancements

Feature Pack 5 or laterSupport for automatically merging Management Center customized deltas
Feature Pack 5 or laterBefore Feature Pack 5, you could compare customized deltas using the Management Center migration tool, but you had to migrate any customized deltas manually. Now the migration utility is enhanced to provide click-to-merge functionality, so that you can merge deltas automatically. For more information, see Using click-to-merge to merge customized Management Center files.
Feature Pack 5 or laterSupport for rolling back Management Center customized deltas
Feature Pack 5 or laterThe migration utility is now enhanced to provide roll back functionality, so that you can roll back customized files to the base feature pack version. For more information, see Rolling back files.
Introduced in Feature Pack 3Support for refreshing a single file when merging customized Management Center files
Introduced in Feature Pack 3When merging customized deltas manually, you need to update the OpenLaszlo Migration Results view to see whether files are currently migrated or not migrated. The migration utilities are enhanced to support refreshing the status of a single file, instead of requiring you to refresh the status of all files.
Introduced in Feature Pack 3Management Center migration user interface enhancement
Introduced in Feature Pack 3The OpenLaszlo Migration Results view is now enhanced to show files that are migrated in green. This enhancement helps you differentiate migrated files from files that are not migrated, which are show in red.
Introduced in Feature Pack 2Support for Management Center programming model enhancements
Introduced in Feature Pack 2OpenLaszlo classes that define configuration information are now converted into XML files that do not need to be compiled into the Management Center flash binary file, ManagementCenter.swf. These new XML files replace the OpenLaszlo classes that declared tool definitions, object definitions, search definitions, properties views, and list views.

The migration utilities are enhanced to support the migration of the programming model. When you enable the Management Center feature, a port utility is started during the enablement process. The port utility will port your customization from OpenLaszlo classes into the new programming model. In addition, the comparison utility in WebSphere Commerce Developer is enhanced so that you can compare the OpenLaszlo classes and the new XML files to merge any conflicts into the new version of the XML files.

Improved database migration performance

The performance of the database migration script is improved for WebSphere Commerce Version 7. The duration of an overall database migration has decreased.

Migrate IBM Sales Center using the installation wizard

The IBM Sales Center for WebSphere Commerce is migrated to WebSphere Commerce Version 7 by using the installation wizard. No separate migration actions are required.