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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 9.1, review this information to help plan and execute your migration.
... from IBM Websphere Commerce Version 8 to HCL Commerce Version 9.1
The following section outlines the high-level steps that you must complete to migrate to HCL Commerce Version 9.1. 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 9.1 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 9.1 production environment.
Migrating your development database
To migrate your development database from IBM Websphere Commerce Version 8 to HCL Commerce Version 9.1, you must first prepare your IBM Websphere Commerce Version 8 Feature Pack 8 development database and your HCL Commerce Version 9.1 development environment. Then, run the updatedb utility to bring your database up to the HCL Commerce Version 9.1 level.

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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.
- Migrating
  Before you migrate to HCL Commerce Version 9.1, 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 9.1. 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 9.1
    The following section outlines the high-level steps that you must complete to migrate to HCL Commerce Version 9.1. 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 9.1 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 9.1 production environment.
      - Migrating site security
        Manually migrate your site security from your IBM Websphere Commerce Version 8 development environment to your HCL Commerce Version 9.1 development environment.
      - Migrating configuration files
        Migrate your IBM Websphere Commerce Version 8 configuration files by manually merging them with or copying them to your HCL Commerce Version 9.1 development environment.
      - Migrating your development database
        To migrate your development database from IBM Websphere Commerce Version 8 to HCL Commerce Version 9.1, you must first prepare your IBM Websphere Commerce Version 8 Feature Pack 8 development database and your HCL Commerce Version 9.1 development environment. Then, run the updatedb utility to bring your database up to the HCL Commerce Version 9.1 level.
        Preparing to migrate your development database
        Prepare to migrate your development database by backing up your IBM Websphere Commerce Version 8 development database, then restore the database backup to your HCL Commerce Version 9 development environment. Next, point the HCL Commerce Version 9 development environment to the restored database backup.
        Running the migration checker and migration utility
        By now, you configured your HCL Commerce Version 9 development environment to use your IBM Websphere Commerce Version 8 development database. Migrate this IBM Websphere Commerce Version 8 database to the HCL Commerce Version 9 level by running the migration check and migration utility through command line. Then, run the updatedb utility to upgrade your database to the HCL Commerce Version 9 level.
      - Migrating Assets tool assets
        After the reintroduction of the Assets tool in Management Center for HCL Commerce with HCL Commerce version 9.1.8.0, you can migrate your IBM Websphere Commerce Version 8 assets, and ensure that your Assets tool configuration is correct, to continue using the tool in HCL Commerce Version 9.1.
      - Migrating Aurora store web project
        To migrate your IBM Websphere Commerce Version 8 store to HCL Commerce Version 9.1, export your Stores project from your IBM Websphere Commerce Version 8, then import the project into your HCL Commerce Version 9 development environment. Next, configure your imported store project for HCL Commerce Version 9.1.
      - Migrating customized struts assets
        HCL Commerce Version 9 uses Apache Struts 2 as the preferred platform for developing enterprise Java web applications. Struts 2 provides plugin support for REST and Spring, which are important components of the HCL Commerce platform. It is also designed for more streamlined development and is fully integrated with the HCL Commerce deployment pipeline.
      - Migrating HCL Commerce Search
        Whether you used BOD-based Search or REST-based Search in previous versions of HCL Commerce, you can migrate your custom Search assets to use REST-based Search in HCL Commerce Version 9.
      - Migrating EJB entity beans to Java Persistence API
        Enterprise Java Entity Beans are no longer supported in HCL Commerce Version 9. By using a combination of tools and manual steps, you can migrate your EJB 1.1 entity beans to JPA, and update your code to use HCL Commerce Version 9 APIs.
      - Migrating Management Center
        If you have customized Management Center in the LOBTools project in your IBM Websphere Commerce Version 8 development environment, you will need to follow the procedure below to re-apply your customizations on HCL Commerce Version 9.1.
      - Migrating custom Physical Service Data Objects
        Manually migrate your custom physical service data object from your IBM Websphere Commerce Version 8 development environment to your HCL Commerce Version 9 development environment.
      - Migrating Command and Data Bean projects
        Migrating Command and Data Bean projects involves several steps. The WebSphereCommerceServerExtensionsLogic project must be exported from your old development environment, and imported into your HCL Commerce Version 9 development environment.
      - Completing post-migration tasks on your development environment
        After you migrate of IBM Websphere Commerce Version 8 Developer to HCL Commerce Version 9.1 Developer, complete the following post-migration steps.
      - Verifying your migrated assets on your development environment
        Now in the migration, you have a fully migrated development environment. Verify that your migrated assets are working as designed in your development 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 9.1 site.
  - ... from HCL Commerce Version 9 to HCL Commerce Version 9.1
    The following section presents the high-level steps that you must complete to upgrade from an earlier version of HCL Commerce Version 9 to a newer version of HCL Commerce Version 9.1.
  - ... to HCL Commerce Version 9.1 solutions
    The following section presents the high-level concepts and steps that you must understand and complete in order to upgrade from earlier WebSphere Commerce technologies to those introduced in HCL Commerce Version 9.1.
- 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 development database

To migrate your development database from IBM Websphere Commerce Version 8 to HCL Commerce Version 9.1, you must first prepare your IBM Websphere Commerce Version 8 Feature Pack 8 development database and your HCL Commerce Version 9.1 development environment. Then, run the updatedb utility to bring your database up to the HCL Commerce Version 9.1 level.

Migrating your IBM Websphere Commerce Version 8 development database

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