IBM SG24-6320-00 manual Migrating commerce database, Enter the new IBM Http Server home directory

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–Is a new IBM HTTP Server installed locally? [DEFAULT yes] yes

–Enter the new IBM HTTP Server home directory:

D:\WebSphere\IBMHTTPServer

–Enter a new Web server host name: [DEFAULT wc56.itso.ral.ibm.com] wc56.itso.ral.ibm.com

–Are the old instance and the new instance using the same database server? [DEFAULT yes]

no

Running the above command will migrate your instance to the WebSphere Commerce V5.6 level.

7.Verify the migration

A number of log files are generated by WCIM script. They are located in:

<wc56_home>\temp\logs\

The following log files generated by the script, must be checked to ensure a successful instance migration. The log files are:

–wcim.migration.wc.<instance name>.51.timestamp.log Ensure that the following line is at the end of the file:

Event: WCIM has completed the job(s) assigned successfully

–instanceXmlMigration.log

Ensure that the following lines is at the end of the file:

Info: WebSphere Commerce instance configuration migrated successfully.

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Info: WebServer configuration migrated successfully.

11.3 Migrating commerce database

We created our own migration scripts to ease the database migration, these custom scripts assist you in the pre-migration, migration and post-migration steps. Once our migration script was built and tested on a test environment, we used the same script to perform the migration on the production database. This

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