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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.
Migrating
Before you migrate to HCL Commerce Version 9, review this information to help plan and execute your migration.
... from IBM Websphere Commerce Version 8 to HCL Commerce Version 9
The following section outlines the high-level steps that you must complete to migrate to HCL Commerce Version 9.0. Begin by migrating your development environment, which includes your development database, custom assets, storefront, and search application. With a successfully migrated development environment, you can migrate your production databases, and deploy your migrated assets to your HCL Commerce Version 9.0 production environments.
Migrating WebSphere Commerce
The following section outlines the production environment migration process. Once you are done migrating your staging and production database environments, you can deploy your migrated assets for your production environment, and switch your live traffic to your new HCL Commerce Version 9 site.
Migrating your staging database
Migrate your staging database by backing up the database, then restoring the backup to your HCL Commerce Version 9 environment. Once the database is restored, you can run the premigration check and migration commands.

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.
- Migrating
  Before you migrate to HCL Commerce Version 9, review this information to help plan and execute your migration.
  - Planning to migrate WebSphere Commerce
    Most businesses treat investments in technology updates and migrations as overhead expenses. Even though you might need to upgrade or migrate to the latest HCL Commerce version to take advantage of the technological offering, providing a business justification to do so requires outlining the business benefits, strategy, and migration plan.
  - ... from IBM Websphere Commerce Version 7
    The following section presents the high-level steps that you must complete to migrate from IBM Websphere Commerce Version 7 to HCL Commerce Version 9. Select the IBM Websphere Commerce Version 7 Feature Pack that you are migrating from to begin your migration.
  - ... from IBM Websphere Commerce Version 8 to HCL Commerce Version 9
    The following section outlines the high-level steps that you must complete to migrate to HCL Commerce Version 9.0. Begin by migrating your development environment, which includes your development database, custom assets, storefront, and search application. With a successfully migrated development environment, you can migrate your production databases, and deploy your migrated assets to your HCL Commerce Version 9.0 production environments.
    - Migrating WebSphere Commerce Developer
      The following section outlines the WebSphere Commerce Developer migration process. It is likely that your migration is completed in planned chunks, starting with migrating your development environments. Once complete, review the WebSphere Commerce migration section to cover how to package and deploy your migrated assets for your production environment, and how to migrate your production database and switch your live traffic to your version 9.0 production environment.
    - Migrating WebSphere Commerce
      The following section outlines the production environment migration process. Once you are done migrating your staging and production database environments, you can deploy your migrated assets for your production environment, and switch your live traffic to your new HCL Commerce Version 9 site.
      - Migrating site security
        Manually migrate your site security from your IBM Websphere Commerce Version 8 production environment to your HCL Commerce Version 9 production environment.
      - Migrating configuration files
        Migrate your IBM Websphere Commerce Version 8 Feature Pack 6 configuration files by manually merging them with, or copying them to, your HCL Commerce Version 9.0 production environment.
      - Migrating your staging database
        Migrate your staging database by backing up the database, then restoring the backup to your HCL Commerce Version 9 environment. Once the database is restored, you can run the premigration check and migration commands.
        Preparing to migrate your staging database
        Prepare your IBM Websphere Commerce Version 8 staging database for migration by taking a backup of the database, then restoring the database to your HCL Commerce Version 9 staging server.
        Migrating your staging database
        To migrate your staging database, run the pre-migration check and migration commands.
      - Migrating your production database
        Migrating your production database is completed in two parts: migrating a copy (or offline version) of your production database, and migrating the live version of your database. By migrating an offline version of your production database, you can test that database in your HCL Commerce Version 9 production environment.
      - Migrating encrypted data
        When migrating IBM Websphere Commerce Version 8 to HCL Commerce Version 9.0 you must migrate your encrypted data. Previous versions of WebSphere Commerce allowed for your site to use 3DES (16bit merchantKey) or AES (32bit merchantKey) encryption. In HCL Commerce Version 9.0, only AES encryption is used.
      - Building and deploying to your production environment
        The updated model for building and deploying to your production environment involves the creation and deployment of custom Docker containers that contain the various components of your HCL Commerce production environment. Once created, deploy the containers into your production environment to stand up your live HCL Commerce Version 9 site.
      - Verifying your migrated production environment
        You now have a fully migrated production environment. Verify that your migrated assets are working as designed.
- 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.

Migrating your IBM Websphere Commerce Version 8 staging database

Migrate your staging database by backing up the database, then restoring the backup to your HCL Commerce Version 9 environment. Once the database is restored, you can run the premigration check and migration commands.

The following diagram depicts the database migration flow.

Graphical representation of the database migration flow.

Migrating your IBM Websphere Commerce Version 8 staging database

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