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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 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.

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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.
- 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.
      - Obtaining HCL Commerce Developer software
        To set up an HCL Commerce development environment, you require associated product software images.
      - HCL Commerce Developer
        To set up an HCL Commerce development environment, you must install the HCL Commerce Developer software and then set your development environment workspace to use an IBM Db2 or Oracle database. After you set your database, you can publish an Aurora sample store to experiment with store features and functionality, or continue development of the features and functionality of a new or migrated store.
      - Uninstalling HCL Commerce Developer
        Uninstalling HCL Commerce Developer consists of removing HCL Commerce Developer and Rational Application Developer from your computer.
    - 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.
    - 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 Developer

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.

To obtain the software for an HCL Commerce development environment, see Obtaining HCL Commerce Developer software.

HCL Commerce Developer is the combination of Rational Application Developer and the HCL Commerce toolkit. The HCL Commerce toolkit provides a test environment and a workspace that are customized for HCL Commerce development.

If you are developing assets for more than one target application, you might need to configure multiple HCL Commerce Developer workspaces. To obtain multiple HCL Commerce Developer workspaces, install HCL Commerce Developer multiple times.

Depending on the size of your organization, there are many ways to leverage HCL Commerce Developer software. In a large development organization, you can create a common central repository and testing environment so that you can set up and manage multiple identical or differing sets of development environments. If this option is not appropriate for your organization, you can instead install a wider breadth of HCL Commerce Developer software on an individual workstation or set of workstations.

Before installing HCL Commerce Developer software, ensure that your HCL Commerce development environment meets the hardware and software requirements.

For software requirements, see Supported software levels, fixes, and settings for HCL Commerce.

HCL Commerce Developer environment

The HCL Commerce Developer configuration includes Rational Application Developer and the required plug-ins for Transaction server customization, and legacy development of HCL Commerce search and storefront solutions.

Note: Coexistence with other versions of HCL Commerce Developer is not supported. If you are migrating, install HCL Commerce Developer 9.0 on a separate machine from any prior versions of WebSphere Commerce Developer.

This software configuration includes:

Rational Application Developer
A development database

For more information on setting up HCL Commerce Developer, see HCL Commerce Developer.