Conventions

Images denote information that is specific to particular edition, business model, database management system, or operating system.

	Applicable only to WebSphere ^(R) Commerce Enterprise.
	Applicable only to WebSphere Commerce Professional.
	Applicable only to WebSphere Commerce - Express.
	Applicable only to WebSphere Commerce Developer. WebSphere Commerce Developer is available in the same editions as WebSphere Commerce. Use the edition of WebSphere Commerce Developer that matches your edition of WebSphere Commerce. This documentation set refers to these products collectively as the WebSphere Commerce Developer.
	Applicable when a consumer direct store is selected in WebSphere Commerce Accelerator.
	Applicable when a B2B direct store is selected in WebSphere Commerce Accelerator.
	Specific to the Apache Derby database.
	Specific to the DB2 Universal Database ^(TM).
	Specific to the Oracle database.
	Specific to programs that run on AIX ^(R).
	Specific to programs that run on System i5 ^(TM).
	Specific to programs that run on System p5 ^(TM).
	Specific to programs that run on System z9 ^(TM).
	Specific to programs that run on Windows Vista.
	Specific to programs that run on Linux.
	Specific to programs that run on Solaris Operating System or Solaris Operating Environment.
	Specific to programs that run on Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008.
	Specific to programs that run on Windows XP.
	Specific to programs that run on Windows 7.
	Applicable only to WebSphere Portal.
	Applicable only to WebSphere Portal, Version 6.1.
	Specific to WebSphere Commerce version 5.6.1.
	Introduced in WebSphere Commerce Version 7 Feature Pack 1. Applies to all subsequent feature packs.
	Introduced in WebSphere Commerce Version 7 Feature Pack 2. Applies to all subsequent feature packs.
	Introduced in WebSphere Commerce Version 7 Feature Pack 3. Applies to all subsequent feature packs.
	Introduced in WebSphere Commerce Version 7 Feature Pack 4. Applies to all subsequent feature packs.
	Introduced in WebSphere Commerce Version 7 Feature Pack 5. Applies to all subsequent feature packs.
	Introduced in WebSphere Commerce Version 7 Feature Pack 6. Applies to all subsequent feature packs.
	Introduced in WebSphere Commerce Version 7 Feature Pack 7. Applies to all subsequent feature packs.
	Introduced in WebSphere Commerce Version 7 Feature Pack 8. Applies to all subsequent feature packs.
	Specific to WebSphere Commerce Version 7 Feature Pack 1.
	Specific to WebSphere Commerce Version 7 Feature Pack 2.
	Specific to WebSphere Commerce Version 7 Feature Pack 3.
	Specific to WebSphere Commerce Version 7 Feature Pack 4.
	Specific to WebSphere Commerce Version 7 Feature Pack 5.
	Specific to WebSphere Commerce Version 7 Feature Pack 6.
	Specific to WebSphere Commerce Version 7 Feature Pack 7.
	Specific to WebSphere Commerce Version 7 Feature Pack 8.
	Introduced in WebSphere Commerce Version 7 7.0.0.1. Applies to all subsequent fix packs.
	Introduced in WebSphere Commerce Version 7 7.0.0.2. Applies to all subsequent fix packs.
	Introduced in WebSphere Commerce Version 7 7.0.0.3. Applies to all subsequent fix packs.
	Introduced in WebSphere Commerce Version 7 7.0.0.4. Applies to all subsequent fix packs.
	Introduced in WebSphere Commerce Version 7 7.0.0.5. Applies to all subsequent fix packs.
	Introduced in WebSphere Commerce Version 7 7.0.0.6. Applies to all subsequent fix packs.
	Introduced in WebSphere Commerce Version 7 7.0.0.7. Applies to all subsequent fix packs.
	Introduced in WebSphere Commerce Version 7 7.0.0.8. Applies to all subsequent fix packs.
	Specific to WebSphere Commerce Version 7.0.0.1.
	Specific to WebSphere Commerce Version 7.0.0.2.
	Specific to WebSphere Commerce Version 7.0.0.3.
	Specific to WebSphere Commerce Version 7.0.0.4.
	Specific to WebSphere Commerce Version 7.0.0.5.
	Specific to WebSphere Commerce Version 7.0.0.6.
	Specific to WebSphere Commerce Version 7.0.0.7.
	Specific to WebSphere Commerce Version 7.0.0.8.
	Specific to WebSphere Commerce Version 7.0.0.9.
	Deprecated functionality

Variables

businessmodel

The name of the business model with which you are working (for example, consumer direct or B2B direct, extended sites, supply chain, or demand chain).

cell_name

The name of the WebSphere Application Server cell. Cells are arbitrary, logical groupings of one, or more nodes in a WebSphere Application Server distributed network that are managed together by a WebSphere Network Deployment Manager. In this definition, a node is a single occurrence of WebSphere Application Server and the applications that run inside the occurrence of WebSphere Application Server.

db_password

The password for the database user.

dba_password

The password for the database administrator. Use dba_password if table and database locks require administrator privileges. For example, if WebSphere Commerce is configured as an authoring server, or WebSphere Commerce Developer is configured to use an authoring server database.

db_schema

The database user ID (schema owner). This value is typically the same value as the value for db in development_db.

db_user

The database user.

development_db

The name of your WebSphere Commerce development database.

drive

The letter that represents the drive on which you installed the product or component that is being discussed (for example, C:).

host_name

The fully qualified host name of your WebSphere Commerce Server (for example, wcserver.mydomain.ibm.com is fully qualified).

instance_name

The name of the WebSphere Commerce instance with which you are working (for example, demo).

locale

A language and country-specific code. By default, WebSphere Commerce supports the following locales:

ar_EG: Arabic Egypt.
en_US: United States English.
fr_FR: French.
de_DE: German.
it_IT: Italian.
es_ES: Spanish.
pt_BR: Brazilian Portuguese.
zh_CN: Simplified Chinese.
zh_TW: Traditional Chinese.
ko_KR: Korean.
ja_JP: Japanese.
pl_PL: Polish.
ro_RO: Romanian.
ru_RU: Russian.

Management_Center_component

The name of the Management Center tool or area with which you want to work. The values are catalog, marketing, promotion, foundation, and shell.

node_name

The short (unqualified) host name of your WebSphere Commerce node (for example, wcserver). A WebSphere Commerce node is a node in your topology that contains the WebSphere Commerce Server.

profile_name

The name of the WebSphere Application Server profile that is created for your WebSphere Commerce instance.

storedir

The name of the directory in which store-specific assets are located, as defined in the DIRECTORY column of the STORE table.

storeId

The store entity ID as defined in the STORE_ID column of the STORE table.

target_db

The name of the database that is used by your target WebSphere Commerce Server.

WAS_instance_name

The name of the WebSphere Application Server with which your WebSphere Commerce instance is associated.

WC_enterprise_application

WC_instance_name. For example, given the instance_name demo, the value of WC_enterprise_application is WC_demo.

WCServer_enterprise_archive

WC_instance_name.ear. For example, given the instance_name demo, the value of WCServer_enterprise_archive is WC_demo.ear.

widgetdir

The name of the directory in which site-level widget storefront assets are included.

Widgets
Widgets_701

Path variables

Ant_installdir

The installation directory for Apache Ant.

DB2_installdir

This directory is the installation path for DB2 Universal Database. These directories are the default installation paths:

For DB2 Version 9.5:

/opt/IBM/db2/V9.5
/opt/ibm/db2/V9.5
C:\Program Files\IBM\SQLLIB

For DB2 Version 9.7:

/opt/IBM/db2/V9.7
/opt/ibm/db2/V9.7
C:\Program Files\IBM\SQLLIB

WebSphere Commerce Version 7.0.0.7 or later

For DB2 Version 10.1:

/opt/IBM/db2/V10.1
/opt/ibm/db2/V10.1
C:\Program Files\IBM\SQLLIB

WebSphere Commerce Version 7.0.0.8 or later

For DB2 Version 10.5:

/opt/IBM/db2/V10.5
/opt/ibm/db2/V10.5
C:\Program Files\IBM\SQLLIB

HTTPServer_installdir

This directory is the installation directory for IBM HTTP Server. These directories are the defaults for IBM HTTP Server, version 7.0:

/usr/IBMIHS/
/opt/WebSphere/HTTPServer
/opt/IBMIHS
C:\Program Files\IBM HTTP Server

LC_profiledir

This directory is the path for the WebSphere Application Server profile for Lotus Connections. A profile is the set of files that define the runtime environment. These directories are the default profile paths:

WAS_installdir/profiles/profile_name

Note: The Profiles and Blogs applications can be deployed to different WebSphere Application Servers as part of a Lotus Connections installation. Because of this possibility, LC_profiledir can also have different values for Profiles and Blogs.

MVCPortlet_installdir

This directory is the installation directory for the WebSphere Commerce portlets:

WCDE_installdir/portal/MVCPortlet/MVCPortlet.war
WC_installdir/portal/MVCPortlet/MVCPortlet.war

Oracle_installdir

This directory is the installation path for the Oracle database.

RAD_installdir

This directory is the installation directory for Rational Application Developer. These directories are the default installation directories:

/opt/IBM/Rational/SDP/7.0
C:\Program Files\IBM\Rational\SDP\7.0

refapphome

This path is the installation path for reference application. The default installation path is WC_installdir/refapps/ref-app-name, where ref-app-name is the name of the reference application.

SC_installdir

This directory is the installation path for Sales Center. The default installation path for Sales Center is:

C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\SalesCenter70

Search_eardir

This directory is the path for the WebSphere Commerce search enterprise archive. For example, /opt/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/demo_solr/installedApps/demo_search_cell/Search_demo.ear

These directories are the default paths:

WC_profiledir/installedApps/cell_name_search_cell/Search_instance_name.ear/
WC_profiledir\installedApps\cell_name_search_cell\Search_instance_name.ear\
workspace_dir/Search/

Search_home

The location of the WebSphere Commerce search home directory path.

The default value is the following path:

WCDE_installdir/search/
WC_installdir/instances/instance_name/search/
WC_instance_root/search/

Solr_cell

The root of the Solr Cell application. Solr uses Cell to index the content of documents.

The default value is the following path:

/opt/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/solr/config/cells/solr_cell/

solrhome

The location of the Solr home directory path that contains the index data of Solr. The value must be an absolute path.

The default value is the following path:

WCDE_installdir\search\solr\home
WC_installdir/instances/instance_name/search/solr/home
WC_instance_root/search/solr/home

StaticHTMLAssets_tempDir

This directory is the temporary directory where you extracted the Static HTML Assets package.

Sterling_dir

The directory where Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Suite is installed, for example /opt/Sterling.

Sterling_eardir

This directory is the path for the Sterling enterprise archive, for example: /opt/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/sterlingApp/installedApps/cxvm20Node03Cell/Sterling Applications.ear

Store_archivedir

The directory path for the store web application archive (WAR) file of a WebSphere Commerce instance, for example: WC_eardir/Stores.war

TestAssets_tempDir

This directory is the temporary directory where you extracted the Test Assets package.

UPDI_tempdir

This directory is the temporary directory where you save the WebSphere Commerce Update Installer download package.

UPDI_installdir

This directory is the installation directory of the WebSphere Commerce Update Installer. This installer is used to install fix packs and APARs.

/usr/IBM/WebSphere/UpdateInstaller
/QIBM/ProdData/WebSphere/UpdateInstaller
/opt/WebSphere/wc-updateinstaller
/opt/WebSphere/wc-updateinstaller
C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\UpdateInstaller
WCDE_installdir\UpdateInstaller

WAS_installdir

This directory is the installation path for WebSphere Application Server. These directories are the default installation paths:

/usr/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer
/QIBM/ProdData/WebSphere/AppServer/V7/edition, where edition is either ND or BASE
/opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer
/opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer
C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer

WAS_userdir

This directory is the path for all the data that is used by WebSphere Application Server that can be modified or must be configured by the user. The default path is /QIBM/UserData/WebSphere/AppServer/V7/edition, where edition is either ND or BASE.

WCBD_installdir

The installation directory for the WebSphere Commerce Build and Deployment tool. These directories are the default installation paths:

WC_installdir\wcbd
WCDE_installdir\wcbd

WCBD_deploy_server_common_dir

The common directory to store the server deployment package installations.

WCBD_deploy_server_dir

The installation directory for the server deployment package that is created by the build process.

WCBD_deploy_toolkit_common_dir

The common directory to store the development environment deployment package installations.

WCBD_deploy_toolkit_dir

The installation directory for the development environment deployment package that is created by the build process.

WC_eardir

This directory is the path for the WebSphere Commerce Enterprise Archive. These directories are the default paths:

WC_profiledir/installedApps/cell_name/instance_name.ear/
WC_profiledir\installedApps\cell_name\instance_name.ear\
workspace_dir/WC/

Note: XML files in WC_eardir/xml are not updated directly. For more information about working with the files in this directory, see XML configuration directory.

WC_installdir

This directory is the installation path for WebSphere Commerce. These directories are the default installation paths for WebSphere Commerce:

/usr/IBM/WebSphere/CommerceServer70
/QIBM/ProdData/CommerceServer70
/opt/IBM/WebSphere/CommerceServer70
C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\CommerceServer70

WC_instance_root

The default path is /QIBM/UserData/CommerceServer70/instances/instance_name.

WC_profiledir

This directory is the path for the WebSphere Application Server profile for WebSphere Commerce. A profile is the set of files that define the runtime environment. These directories are the default profile paths:

WAS_installdir/profiles/profile_name
WAS_userdir/profiles/profile_name
WAS_installdir\profiles\profile_name

WC_userdir

This directory is the directory for all the data that is used by WebSphere Commerce that can be modified or must be configured by the user. The default path is /QIBM/UserData/CommerceServer70.

WCDE_installdir

This directory is the installation directory for the WebSphere Commerce development environment. The default installation directory depends on your edition of WebSphere Commerce Developer:

C:\WCToolkitExpress70
C:\WCToolkitPro70
C:\WCToolkitEE70

WP_installdir

This directory is the installation directory for WebSphere Portal:

/usr/IBM/WebSphere/PortalServer
/QIBM/ProdData/PortalServer/V7
/opt/IBM/WebSphere/PortalServer
C:\Program Files\IBM\WebSphere\PortalServer

workspace_dir

This directory is the WebSphere Commerce workspace directory. The default is WCDE_installdir\workspace.