The information contained in this section applies to IBM WebSphere Commerce Version 7.0.0.9 and Feautre Pack 8. The documentation also applies to all subsequent releases and modifications until otherwise indicated in new editions.
Before you migrate WebSphere Commerce, review this information for an overview of the migration process.
Migrating WebSphere Commerce includes completing steps in a specific order.
You can migrate the database using the Migration wizard or the command line.
Creating a custom implementation of a WebSphere Commerce store requires a significant amount of planning. From gathering client needs, to deploying the live solution, much work is needed to successfully deploy a custom client store. Use the resources in here to help you plan every phase of store creation.
Review this section for information about installing the WebSphere Commerce product, associated maintenance, and WebSphere Commerce enhancements.
Most businesses treat investments in technology updates and migrations as overhead expenses. Even though you may need to upgrade or migrate to the latest WebSphere Commerce version to take advantage of the technological offering, providing a business justification to do so requires outlining the business benefits, strategy and migration plan.
This section discusses important information you should review before you migrate your current WebSphere Commerce Developer Version 5.6.1 or 6.0 to WebSphere Commerce Developer Version 7.0. Migrating WebSphere Commerce Developer includes completing the following steps in this order.
The following sections describe specific steps you must complete while you still have your production system running. The sections also describes some considerations you must make prior to beginning your migration to WebSphere Commerce 7.0. If you do not complete the premigration actions, your database tier migration might not succeed. The migration program reports any problems in as much detail as requested at execution time. If such a situation occurs, let the migration program run to completion to report all the problems it finds in the first run. This provides opportunity to fix all problems before the program is run again.
You can migrate the application using the Migration wizard or the command line.
Complete the following steps to migrate your WebSphere Commerce clustered environment. Many of the steps are links to the WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment Version 7.0.0.3, or higher version 7.0 fix pack Information Center, with detailed recommended settings relevant to WebSphere Commerce.
After you have migrated your database, application, and web server tiers using the Migration wizard, verify the migration status.
If you are migrating the WebSphere Commerce database by using the command line, review this information to understand the parameters required for the wcim_ant command.
After you have migrated your database and application tiers, migrate applicable WebSphere Commerce features, functions and customizations you have performed.
The IBM Gift Center migration is handled as part of the overall WebSphere Commerce migration. The WebSphere Commerce migration framework includes the database, application server, and web server migration.
You can migrate your store to the new search engine optimization feature for WebSphere Commerce Version 7 Feature Pack 3 or later. This feature creates shorter and easier to understand URLs to improve searches for your store. You must perform some additional configuration tasks to ensure that your store supports search engine optimization.
IBM Sales Center was built and deployed using WebSphere Everyplace Deployment for Windows and Linux. IBM Sales Center 7 is built and deployed on IBM Lotus Expeditor 6.2, and therefore requires that you migrate any custom IBM Sales Center applications.
WebSphere Commerce provides many tutorials.
The topics in the Developing section describe tasks performed by an application developer.
The following section describes how you can leverage WebSphere Commerce features and functionality to help your site be compliant with different privacy and security standards.
These topics describe the security features of WebSphere Commerce and how to configure these features.