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The information contained in this section applies to WebSphere Commerce Version 8. The documentation also applies to all subsequent releases and modifications until otherwise indicated in a newer section.WebSphere Commerce is a single, unified e-commerce platform that offers the ability to do business directly with consumers (B2C), directly with businesses (B2B), and indirectly through channel partners (indirect business models). WebSphere Commerce is designed to be a customizable, scalable, and high availability solution that is built to leverage open standards. It provides easy-to-use tools for business users to centrally manage a cross-channel strategy. Business users can create and manage precision marketing campaigns, promotions, catalog, and merchandising across all sales channels.
Administering
Extracting, transforming, and loading data
WebSphere Commerce provides multiple utilities for preparing and loading data into a WebSphere Commerce database. The loading utilities are flexible and you can continue to use these utilities when you customize the WebSphere Commerce schema.
Mass load utilities
The mass load utilities provide an efficient way to load large amount of data. The Data Load utility, which is an enhanced business object based loading utility, is the recommended loading utility.
Configuring the mass loading utilities
Before you use any of the mass loading utilities, confirm the settings and configuration of the various scripts and utilities that are part of the loading utilities.
Deprecated feature: Configuring the environment variable setting scripts
Before you can use the mass loading utilities, you might have to update some of the environment variables that are used by the utilities. The environment variables are set by the following scripts that are called by the mass loading utilities and other WebSphere Commerce utilities:

Deprecated feature: Configuring the environment variable setting scripts

Before you can use the mass loading utilities, you might have to update some of the environment variables that are used by the utilities. The environment variables are set by the following scripts that are called by the mass loading utilities and other WebSphere Commerce utilities:

About this task

setenv script

WC_installdir/bin/setenv.sh
WC_installdir\bin\setenv.bat
WCDE_installdir\bin\setenv.bat

setenv.db2 script

DB2

WC_installdir/bin/setdbenv.db2.sh
WC_installdir\bin\setdbenv.db2.bat

setenv.oracle script

Oracle

WC_installdir/bin/setdbenv.oracle.sh
WC_installdir\bin\setdbenv.oracle.bat

Procedure

To change the environment variable setting scripts:

Open the script in a text editor.
Confirm that the values set for environment variables in the script are correct for the system on which you plan to run the loading utilities.
Save any changes.
Ensure that these scripts have the correct permissions to run.
For example, you might need to change the values for one or more of the following paths in the setenv scripts:
- JAVA_HOME
- DB2_DRIVER
- ORACLE_HOME
- ORACLE_DRIVER
- ORACLE_CLASSPATH
- CLASSPATH