Configuring the Data Extract utility environment settings

You must create an environment configuration file that specifies your environment settings so that the Data Extract utility can extract data objects from your HCL Commerce database.

Procedure

  1. Go to the following directory, which contains the sample configuration files for extracting data:
    • WCDE_installdir\samples\DataExtract
  2. Create a backup of the wc-dataextract-env.xml environment configuration files in the directory for the object that you want to extract. The sample environment configuration file is configured for a default HCL Commerce Developer environment. If your environment settings are different, you must change the configured values in these files to match your environment.
  3. Open the environment configuration file (wc-dataextract-env.xml) for editing and configure the settings for your environment.
  4. Change the values of the business context attributes inside the <_config:BusinessContext> element to match your store settings:
    storeIdentifier
    The identifying name of the store that owns the object data, for example, Aurora.
    langId
    The language ID for the language of the data, for example, -1 for English.
  5. Change the values of the database configuration attributes inside the <_config:Database> element to match your database settings: 
    
<_config:Database type="db2" name="name" user="user" password="password" 
server="server" port="port" schema="schema" />
    Where:
    type
    db2 or oracle
    name
    The name of the database
    user
    The database user ID.
    password
    The database password is necessary to connect to the database. For security purposes, the password is always encrypted. If the password field is empty, you are prompted to enter the password on the command line when you run the utility.
    server
    The name of the server the database is on. The server name can be the IP address or the fully qualified DNS name of the server the database is on.
    port
    The port to connect to the database.
    schema
    The name of the database schema.
  6. Encrypt the password of the database user:
    1. Open the command-line interface and go to the following directory:
      • Linuxutilities_root/bin
      • HCL Commerce DeveloperWCDE_installdir\bin
    2. Enter the following command:
      • Linux./wcs_encrypt.sh db_password
      • HCL Commerce Developerwcs_encrypt.bat db_password
      Where db_password is the password for the database user.
    3. Use the encrypted password next to ASCII encrypted string as the value for the password attribute inside the <_config:Database> element.
  7. Save and close the configuration file.

What to do next

  1. Configure the business object configuration file.
  2. Configure the data extract order.
  3. Run the Data Extract utility command.