massload utility (Development environment)
This utility loads an XML input file into a target database. Loading the XML file for populate and updates the WebSphere Commerce database. The massload utility allows column-level updates to a table. It also allows you to delete data from a database.
The massload utility
is deprecated for WebSphere Commerce Version 7 Feature Pack 6. The
Data Load utility is the recommended command-line loading utility.
If you are currently using the mass load utility, you are recommended
to switch to the Data Load utility to load your CSV and XML input
files into your target database. If your system contains scheduled
and automated processes that use massload, it is recommended that
you update these processes to use the Data Load utility. Other WebSphere
Commerce utilities that use the massload utility, such as the acpload
utility, continue to use the massload utility in WebSphere Commerce
Version 7 Feature Pack 6. If you have business reasons to continue
using the massload utility, you can continue to use this utility.
For more information about the Data Load utility, see Overview of the Data Load utility.
You can switch to the Data Load utility by using the TableObjectMediator to
load your data when no business object mediator exists for the data
that you are loading. For more about the TableObjectMediator formation,
see Data Load utility table-based mediator and builder.
The page covers
the massload utility in the WebSphere Commerce development environment.
For the massload utility in the WebSphere Commerce server environment,
see massload
utility (Server environment).
The massload utility required valid and well-formed XML as input to the database. In this input, element names correspond to table names and attributes of the element correspond to column names in the table.
The massload utility includes the following features:
- Error reporter
- The massload utility includes an error reporter that generates an exception document if there is an error.
- Product Advisor search-space synchronization
- If you enable the loading utilities' Product Advisor search-space synchronization feature, you can maintain near real-time synchronicity of Product Advisor search spaces and WebSphere Commerce catalog tables that are being updated by the massload utility.
Before you run this utility, ensure that you have complete the required configuration tasks:
Syntax
The syntax for the massload utility depends on which database you are using as the development database:
Parameter values
- XML file name
- The full path to the XML file that contains the data to be loaded into the development database.
- Host name
- The fully qualified host name of the machine that is hosting the
development database.
- DB name
- The name of the database into which you are loading data.
Note: For DB2 UDB databases,
the DB2 Type 4 JDBC driver is used, where the Type 4 database name
is prefixed with the database server and port. For example, db_server:db_port/db_name. - DB user
- The ID of a database user authorized to connect to the database.
- DB pwd
- The password for the database user.
- DB schema
- The name of the database schema into which you are loading data. Specify the schema name in uppercase letters.