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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.
Integrating
Topics in the Integrating category highlight the tasks that are commonly performed for using HCL Commerce in combination with other products.
Integrating with back-end systems and external applications
External systems integration is a key feature of the HCL Commerce solution. In HCL Commerce business logic is enabled for integration and built-in adapters and interfaces are provided for common integration points. Additionally, the HCL Commerce integration solution leverages integration standards by using various IBM connectivity solutions.
Procurement system integration
HCL Commerce provides the capability to integrate with procurement systems. This capability enables HCL Commerce customers to participate as suppliers in the procurement system's marketplace, increase sales, and enhance their business-to-business presence on the Web. HCL Commerce provides an extensible and customizable functionality in such a way that one can extend either the messages or the business logic.
Configuring the cookie for procurement
HCL Commerce uses a generated encrypted cookie to bind the session between the Punch-out setup phase where the requisitioning user authentication (if the user is new) and registration is performed, and the catalog shopping phase where the procurement system launches a new browser window for the requisitioning user.

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Configuring the cookie for procurement

HCL Commerce uses a generated encrypted cookie to bind the session between the Punch-out setup phase where the requisitioning user authentication (if the user is new) and registration is performed, and the catalog shopping phase where the procurement system launches a new browser window for the requisitioning user.

About this task

There are four configurable parameters that are related to this cookie:

The maximum number of cookies present in the system at one time.
The expiry time of the cookie, in minutes.
The cleanup interval time for the expired cookies.
The maximum number of times to retry fetching the supplierCookie data from the cache (It can be used if the DRS has not completed the replication to all servers). A retry is made every 100 milliseconds. For example, with a value of 30, there are 30 total retries made in a total of 3 seconds.

To configure these parameters:

Procedure

Open the HCL Commerce configuration file.
Change the MessagingExtensions element to the following:
```
<MessagingExtensions display="false">
<SupplierCookie maxCount="1000"
  CleanInterval="5"
  ExpiryTime="100"
  maxRetries="30" />
</MessagingExtensions>
```
Where:
- ExpiryTime is set to 100, for expiry after 100 minutes.
- maxRetries is set to 30, for a total of 30 retries in 3 seconds.

Results

The procurement cookie is configured with the values that are specified.