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HCL Commerce is a high-availability, highly scalable and customizable e-commerce platform. Able to support hundreds of thousands of transactions per day, HCL Commerce allows you to do business with consumers (B2C) or directly with businesses (B2B). HCL Commerce uses cloud friendly technology to make deployment and operation both easy and efficient. 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. Business users can also use AI enabled content management capabilities.
Installing and deploying
Learn how to install and deploy HCL Commerce development environments and HCL Commerce production environments.
Setting up HCL Commerce environments
Learn how to set up development, testing, and production environments, and how to update the production environment through deploying custom changes and applying maintenance.
Setting up an HCL Commerce production environment with IBM Cloud Private
You can use IBM Cloud Private to easily install, deploy, and operate your HCL Commerce version 9.0 production environments on Kubernetes.

Documentation
HCL Commerce is a high-availability, highly scalable and customizable e-commerce platform. Able to support hundreds of thousands of transactions per day, HCL Commerce allows you to do business with consumers (B2C) or directly with businesses (B2B). HCL Commerce uses cloud friendly technology to make deployment and operation both easy and efficient. 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. Business users can also use AI enabled content management capabilities.
- Getting started
  HCL Commerce has different advantages for business users, administrators and developers. HCL Commerce targets each of these roles with a tailored set of offerings so that each of your users can get maximum benefit.
- Installing and deploying
  Learn how to install and deploy HCL Commerce development environments and HCL Commerce production environments.
  - HCL Commerce assemblies
    HCL Commerce consists of two offerings, HCL Commerce Professional, and HCL Commerce Enterprise. Each version of each edition of HCL Commerce is an offering. HCL Commerce Developer is a separate offering that is used by developers of the platform. It can be used to develop for the corresponding version of both HCL Commerce Professional and HCL Commerce Enterprise. Each offering is logically divided into subpackages called electronic assemblies, or eAssemblies. An eAssembly is a group of software that is devoted to a particular platform or environment. Each eAssembly contains the individual product images for that environment, called parts. Which parts you need depends on your usage and configuration choices.
  - Downloading software
    To set up an HCL Commerce production, development, or test environment, you require the associated product software images.
  - Supported software levels, fixes, and settings
    The following table provides a list of generally available (GA) software levels, fixes, and settings for the latest HCL Commerce Version 9.0 release.
  - Setting up HCL Commerce environments
    Learn how to set up development, testing, and production environments, and how to update the production environment through deploying custom changes and applying maintenance.
    - Setting up an HCL Commerce development environment
      This section describes how to set up an HCL Commerce development environment. The HCL Commerce development environment is a flexible collection of software, collectively known as HCL Commerce Developer, for developers or system administrators to develop and test stores and HCL Commerce application code.
    - Setting up an HCL Commerce production environment with IBM Cloud Private
      You can use IBM Cloud Private to easily install, deploy, and operate your HCL Commerce version 9.0 production environments on Kubernetes.
      - Prerequisites for HCL Commerce and IBM Cloud Private
        Review the following prerequisite before you begin setting up your HCL Commerce environment with IBM Cloud Private (ICP).
      - Preparing and deploying your runtime environment with IBM Cloud Private
        For a convenient way of setting up a runtime environment, use the IBM Cloud Private (ICP) application platform.
      - Resiliency considerations when deploying in IBM Cloud Private
        Review the following resiliency considerations before you deploy your HCL Commerce application in IBM Cloud Private.
    - Setting up an HCL Commerce production environment without IBM Cloud Private
      You can set up your production environment without IBM Cloud Private however you like by using the provided Docker images for your HCL Commerce servers.
    - Default port numbers
      Review this information for the default port numbers that are used by HCL Commerce services or the component products.
  - Deploying custom changes
    With HCL Commerce Version 9.0, you can customize HCL Commerce Docker image with the source code, configurations, and the Docker container start-up logic. Learn how to build Docker images with your customized code and deploy the images (and other changes) to your Docker containers.
  - Updating HCL Commerce overview
    Learn about HCL Commerce release types, and learn how to update your custom HCL Commerce site deployments.
- Migrating
  Before you migrate to HCL Commerce Version 9, review this information to help plan and execute your migration.
- Operating
  Topics in the Operating category highlight tasks that are typically performed by business users, customer support representatives, to complete their day-to-day tasks in the operation of the HCL Commerce site.
- Integrating
  Topics in the Integrating category highlight the tasks that are commonly performed for using HCL Commerce in combination with other products.
- Administering
  Topics in the Administering category highlight tasks that are typically performed by the Site Administrator, to support daily operations of the HCL Commerce site.
- Customizing
  The topics in the Customizing section describe tasks performed by an application developer to customize HCL Commerce.
- Tutorials
  HCL Commerce provides many tutorials to help you customize and understand your HCL Commerce instance and stores.
- Samples
  Topics in the Samples category highlight the various samples that are provided with HCL Commerce.
- Compliance
  The following section describes how you can leverage HCL Commerce features and functionality to help your site be compliant with different privacy and security standards.
- Securing
  These topics describe the security features of HCL Commerce and how to configure these features.
- Performance
  Topics in the Performance section describe the means by which to plan, implement, test, and re-visit the optimization of HCL Commerce site performance.
- Troubleshooting
  Topics in the Troubleshooting section highlight common issues that are encountered with HCL Commerce, and how they can be addressed or mitigated.
- Reference
  Topics in the Reference section contain all of the HCL Commerce reference documentation.

HCL Commerce Version 9.0.1.0 or later

Setting up an HCL Commerce production environment with IBM Cloud Private

You can use IBM Cloud Private to easily install, deploy, and operate your HCL Commerce version 9.0 production environments on Kubernetes.

Important:

Starting from HCL Commerce Version 9.1, HCL Commerce does not provide IBM Cloud Private offline package as part of the provided eAssemblies. However, HCL Commerce can still be deployed on ICP by treating ICP as a kind of Kubernetes cluster. All updated HCL Commerce docker images can be downloaded from the HCL License and Delivery portal, and pushed to a private docker registry accessible by the ICP cluster. A helm upgrade command can be used to upgrade HCL Commerce with new images.

HCL Commerce on IBM Cloud Private

IBM Cloud Private is an application platform for developing and managing on-premises, containerized platforms, like HCL Commerce Version 9.0. When you integrate with IBM Cloud Private, you can leverage Kubernetes for your container orchestration, private image registry, and monitoring framework without too much manual setup. For more information about IBM Cloud Private, see IBM Cloud Private overview.

Before the integration between HCL Commerce and IBM Cloud Private, customers were responsible for implementing their own container orchestration, which required advanced skills in deploying and managing containerized environments. Now, customers can quickly deploy HCL Commerce images into production environments with the help of IBM Cloud Private.

When you deploy the default HCL Commerce images with IBM Cloud Private, you get the basic environment configuration, as illustrated by the following diagram. Basic HCL Commerce deployment with IBM Cloud Private

Note: The diagram shows the default configuration, as deployed by IBM Cloud Private. If you deploy an authoring environment and a live environment, two environments that mirror the diagram are deployed.

These deployments can act as the basis of your larger production environment. You can also configure your CI/DC pipeline to work with these deployments.