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The information contained in this section applies to IBM WebSphere Commerce Version 7.0.0.9 and Feautre Pack 8. The documentation also applies to all subsequent releases and modifications until otherwise indicated in new editions.
Administering
Overview of administering a WebSphere Commerce site
In WebSphere Commerce the person who performs administrative tasks is called a Site Administrator. The Site Administrator installs, configures, and maintains WebSphere Commerce and the associated software and hardware. The administrator responds to system warnings, alerts, and errors, and diagnoses and resolves system problems. Typically, this person controls access and authorization (creating and assigning members to the appropriate role), manages the Web site, monitors performance, and manages load balancing tasks. The Site Administrator might be responsible for establishing and maintaining several server configurations for different stages of development such as testing, staging, and production. The Site Administrator also handles critical system backups and resolves performance problems.
Organization Administration Console
The Organization Administration Console enables administrators to manage organizations, business users and member groups. Access Control policies can also be managed and approval requests can be processed.
Organizations
An organizational entity is a type of member in WebSphere Commerce. An organizational entity is classified into one of three types: an organization, an organization unit, or an authorization domain. For site administrators, one of your first tasks after installing and configuring WebSphere Commerce is setting up and managing access to your e-commerce site. This process involves creating organizations that participate at your site, and defining users that are members of those organizations. After an instance is created, you can publish a starter store that defines the organization structure. Sometimes, organizations joining your site might be buyer organizations. In other cases, you might have customers registering at your site who are engaged in a business-to-consumer relationship with your business. Defining the organizational structure of site is an important step in managing the types of access that members have to your system.
Deleting organizations
You can delete an organizations using two methods. Deleting an organization also deletes all of its descendant organizations, users, and assets (such as stores).

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Deleting organizations

You can delete an organizations using two methods. Deleting an organization also deletes all of its descendant organizations, users, and assets (such as stores).

About this task

It is recommended that you view each database table before deleting an organization to ensure that you are aware of what information will be deleted.

If you are deleting an organization from a staging server, see Staging server limitations.

Procedure

If you have created the organization in the Organization Administration Console, do the following in SQL:


select orgentity_id from orgentity where orgentityname = 
'Organization Short name' entered during creation
delete from member where member_id = 
orgentity_id from the previous query

If you have created the organization using the Reseller Registration commands, there are primary and secondary database tables that have been populated. The MEMBER table is the database table that has primary information added. Secondary tables include the following information: MBRREL, MBRROLE, APRVSTATUS, USERREG, ADDRESS, and ADDRBOOK. To delete an organization, do the following in SQL:


select users_id from userreg where logonId = 
'User Name' entered during registration
delete from member where member_id = 
users_id from the previous query

select orgentity_id from orgentity where orgentityname = 
'Your organization name' entered during registration
select mbrgrp_id from mbrgrp where owner_id = 
orgentity_id from the previous query
delete from member where member_id = 
mbrgrp_id from the previous query
delete from member where member_id = 
same orgentity_id as above