WebSphere Commerce Developer

Preparing to migrate Management Center customizations from Version 6 Feature Pack x to Version 7

Management Center customizations are manually migrated to WebSphere Commerce Developer Version 7. However, a script has been provided that you can use to copy your customized files to your new environment, and a comparison tool is available to help you identify the customizations you have made to the Management Center. If you did not previously enable the Management Center in Version 6, you can skip this task.

Before you begin

Install WebSphere Commerce Developer Version 7

About this task

This task migrates Management Center customizations from Version 6 FEPx to Version 7, where FEPx is Feature Pack 3.0.1 or later.

Procedure

  1. If your previous development environment and the Version 7 development environment are not on the same machine, map a drive from the new development machine to the old development machine.
  2. Open a command prompt on the new Version 7 machine and navigate to WCDE_installdir\bin.
  3. Migrate the Management Center assets, including your customizations from your previous development environment to the version 7 development environment by running the following command: 
    migrateCMC.bat previousWCInstallDir
    where previousWCInstallDir is the installation directory where the previous version of WebSphere Commerce Developer was installed.
  4. Examine the following log file for problems:
    • WCDE_installdir\logs\migrateManagementCenter.log
  5. Compare the customized LOBTools with the default version of the previous release using the comparison plug-in provided within WebSphere Commerce Developer:
    1. Open WebSphere Commerce Developer
    2. Select the LOBTools project.
    3. Right-click the LOBTools project and select OpenLaszlo Migration > Compare Customizations

      A comparison table of results is shown.

    4. Double click on rows in the table to see a comparison of the your customized version 6 files and the default version 7 files.