IBM SG24-6320-00 manual Preparation overview

6320ch_DEV_before_migration.fm Draft Document for Review July 28, 2004 7:33 pm

6.1 Preparation overview

This chapter describes the actions needed to prepare the WebSphere

Commerce Suite V5.1 development environment prior to migrating to

WebSphere Commerce V5.6 Developer.

It is recommended to prepare and migrate the elements in the following order:

1.Instance

2.Database

The migration steps are described in Chapter 7, “Migrating the development environment” on page 111

The following is a list of the specific sections that are covered. You can use this list as a checklist when you are performing the tasks in this chapter. Read and understand the chosen section completely, before you begin any of the tasks:

Instance preparation

–Updating the product information file

–Prepare resources

–Merge EJB groups

–Export code from VisualAge for Java V3.5.3 Database preparation

–Update database configuration values

–Unsent messages

–Order status

–Catalog

–Members

–Custom message types

–Dropping foreign key references

–Erroneous data in encrypted fields

In each section we analyze the element to see what needs to be changed in order to prepare it for the migration.

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