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6.9 WebSphere Commerce Payments

Use the IBM Systems Workload Estimator to predict the capacities and resource requirements for WebSphere Commerce Payments. The Estimator allows you to predict a standalone WCP environment or a WCP environment associated with the buy visits from a WebSphere Commerce estimation. Work with your marketing representative to utilize this tool. You’ll find the tool at: http://www.ibm.com/eserver/iseries/support/estimator.

Workload Description: The PayGen workload was measured using clients that emulate the payment transaction initiated when Internet users purchase a product from an e-commerce shopping site. The payment transaction includes the Accept and Approve processing for the initiated payment request. WebSphere Commerce Payments has the flexibility and capability to integrate different types of payment cassettes due to the independent architecture. Payment cassettes are the plugins used to accommodate payment requirements on the Internet for merchants who need to accept multiple payment methods. For more information about the various cassettes, follow the link below: http://www-4.ibm.com/software/webservers/commerce/paymentmanager/lib.html

Performance Tips and Techniques:

1.DTD Path Considerations: When using the Java Client API Library (CAL), the performance of the WebSphere Commerce Payments can be significantly improved if the merchant application specifies the dtdPath parameter when creating a PaymentServerClient. When this parameter is specified, the overhead of sending the entire IBMPaymentServer.dtd file with each response is avoided. The dtdPath parameter should contain the path of the locally stored copy of the IBMPaymentServer.dtd file. For the exact location of this file, refer to the Programmer's Guide and Reference at the following link: http://www-4.ibm.com/software/webservers/commerce/payment/docs/paymgrprog22as.html

2.Other Tuning Tips: More performance tuning tips can be found in the Administrator’s Guide under Appendix D at the following link: http://www-4.ibm.com/software/webservers/commerce/payment/docs/paymgradmin22as.html

3.WebSphere Tuning Tips: Please refer to the WebSphere section in section 6.2, for a discussion on WebSphere Application Server performance as well as related web links.

6.10 Connect for iSeries

IBM Connect for iSeries is a software solution designed to provide System i server customers and business partners a way to communicate with an eMarketplace. Connect for iSeries was developed as a software integration framework that allows customers to integrate new and existing back-end business applications with those of their trading partners. It is built on industry standards such as Java, XML and MQ Series.

The framework supports plugins for multiple trading partner protocols. Connect for iSeries also provides pluggable connectors that make it easy to communicate to various back-end applications through a variety

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