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10.1 Preparation overview

This chapter describes the actions needed to prepare the WebSphere Commerce Suite V5.1 production environment prior to migrating to WebSphere Commerce V5.6.

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

1.Instance

2.Database

The migration steps are described in Chapter 11, “Migrating WebSphere

Commerce components” on page 201

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

Disable security on WebSphere Application Server Database preparation

Copying the database from Commerce V5.1 to Commerce V5.6

Updating database configuration values

Unsent messages

Orders 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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