IBM SG24-6320-00 manual Migration Planning, Skill requirements

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3.2 Migration Planning

WebSphere Commerce integrates with several other software products to provide award winning e-commerce solutions. Migrating WebSphere Commerce can be a complex and challenging task given the number of products and subsystems involved. A complete migration plan must include all the necessary upgrades to application code and WebSphere Commerce servers, but that plan must also consider business requirements, while ensuring that during the migration, service cannot be negatively impacted in any significant way. That is, business must continue during the migration.

Migrating to a new version of WebSphere Commerce will have an impact on several aspects of your business. WebSphere Commerce is far more than just application code; along with the application code, there are development environments, build processes, runtime environments and other aspects that must be considered.

While planning it is important to consider:

The customization level for the application to be migrated

Development environment (including source code management)

Testing environment

Runtime environments

Deployment processes

Database size

Integration level with third-party applications

How well the application to be migrated complies with the recommended best practices and standards.

Education and training

3.2.1 Skill requirements

People who will be installing and configuring WebSphere Commerce V5.6, WebSphere Commerce development environment, and those involved in the migration process should have knowledge in the following areas:

IBM DB2 Universal Database

Understanding of relational database concepts

Ability to perform basic SQL queries

IBM HTTP Server administration skills

Understanding of TCP/IP, HTTP and SSL protocols

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