IBM SG24-6320-00 manual Migration overview, Migrating commerce instance configuration

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

11.1 Migration overview

This chapter describes the actions needed to migrate the WebSphere Commerce Suite V5.1 elements to the WebSphere Commerce V5.6 environment.

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

1.Instance

2.Database

The preparation steps are described in Chapter 10, “Pre-migration steps” on page 183.

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:

Migrating commerce instance configuration

Migrating commerce database

–Migrating the database

–Choosing the master catalog

–Migrating the encrypted data Migrating Payment Manager

In each section we describe the steps needed to migrate the individual element.

11.2 Migrating commerce instance configuration

Before the migration can take place ensure that the steps outlined in

Section 10.2, “Instance preparation” on page 185 has been completed.

To migrate an instance the WCIM tool is provided with WebSphere Commerce V5.6.

It is recommended to understand the behavior of the WCIM tool before continuing on migrating the instance . The behavior of the WCIM tool is described in Appendix C, “Migration scripts” on page 255

The instance can be migrated in one of the following ways:

Switch-Over

In-place

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