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The information contained in this section applies to WebSphere Commerce Version 8. The documentation also applies to all subsequent releases and modifications until otherwise indicated in a newer section.WebSphere Commerce is a single, unified e-commerce platform that offers the ability to do business directly with consumers (B2C), directly with businesses (B2B), and indirectly through channel partners (indirect business models). WebSphere Commerce is designed to be a customizable, scalable, and high availability solution that is built to leverage open standards. It provides easy-to-use tools for business users to centrally manage a cross-channel strategy. Business users can create and manage precision marketing campaigns, promotions, catalog, and merchandising across all sales channels.
Migrating
Before you migrate to WebSphere Commerce Version 8.0, review this information to help plan and execute your migration.
Migrating WebSphere Commerce Developer
The following section outlines the high-level steps that must be completed to migrate your WebSphere Commerce Version 7.0 Developer environment to WebSphere Commerce Developer Version 8.0. Migrating WebSphere Commerce Developer includes completing the following steps in order.
Preparing WebSphere Commerce Developer Version 7.0 for migration
To prepare for migration from version 7.0 to version 8.0, commit customized code and published stores to a source control repository and back up the development database.

User Guide
The information contained in this section applies to WebSphere Commerce Version 8. The documentation also applies to all subsequent releases and modifications until otherwise indicated in a newer section.WebSphere Commerce is a single, unified e-commerce platform that offers the ability to do business directly with consumers (B2C), directly with businesses (B2B), and indirectly through channel partners (indirect business models). WebSphere Commerce is designed to be a customizable, scalable, and high availability solution that is built to leverage open standards. It provides easy-to-use tools for business users to centrally manage a cross-channel strategy. Business users can create and manage precision marketing campaigns, promotions, catalog, and merchandising across all sales channels.
- Planning
  Creating a custom implementation of a WebSphere Commerce store requires a significant amount of planning. From gathering client needs, to deploying the live solution, much work is needed to successfully deploy a custom client store. Use the resources in here to help you plan every phase of store creation.
- Installing
  Review the following sections for information about installing the WebSphere Commerce product, associated maintenance, and WebSphere Commerce enhancements.
- Migrating
  Before you migrate to WebSphere Commerce Version 8.0, review this information to help plan and execute your migration.
  - Planning to migrate WebSphere Commerce
    Most businesses treat investments in technology updates and migrations as overhead expenses. Even though you might need to upgrade or migrate to the latest WebSphere Commerce version to take advantage of the technological offering, providing a business justification to do so requires outlining the business benefits, strategy, and migration plan.
  - Migrating WebSphere Commerce Developer
    The following section outlines the high-level steps that must be completed to migrate your WebSphere Commerce Version 7.0 Developer environment to WebSphere Commerce Developer Version 8.0. Migrating WebSphere Commerce Developer includes completing the following steps in order.
    - Preparing WebSphere Commerce Developer Version 7.0 for migration
      To prepare for migration from version 7.0 to version 8.0, commit customized code and published stores to a source control repository and back up the development database.
    - Preparing WebSphere Commerce Developer Version 8.0 for migration
      To migrate from WebSphere Commerce Developer Version 7.0 to WebSphere Commerce Developer Version 8.0, restore your version 7.0 development database to your version 8.0 development environment, and then update the database and its configuration.
    - Migrating the database
      You can migrate your WebSphere Commerce Developer Version 7.0 database to the WebSphere Commerce Developer Version 8.0 level by using either the Migration wizard or the command line.
    - Migrating custom assets
      In this phase of the migration process, you migrate custom assets from WebSphere Commerce Version 7.0 to WebSphere Commerce Version 8.0.
    - Migrating site security for WebSphere Commerce Developer
      If you are migrating from WebSphere Commerce Developer Version 7.0 to WebSphere Commerce Developer Version 8.0, manually migrate your security configurations.
    - Updating the WebSphere Commerce XML configuration files
      Use the configMigration utility to update XML configuration files that were migrated from version 7.0 to version 8.0. The utility upgrades the configuration files while preserving your customizations.
    - Verifying the migrated WebSphere Commerce Developer application
      After you migrate your enterprise bean files into WebSphere Commerce Developer Version 8.0, the final step is to verify the migrated application. To test your migrated application, access a test JSP page in the migrated store as in the previous WebSphere Commerce Developer Version 7.0 development environment.
    - Taking your first steps after migrating WebSphere Commerce Developer
      After you migrate of WebSphere Commerce Developer to version 8.0, complete the following steps.
  - Migrating WebSphere Commerce
    The following section outlines the available migration paths for moving from WebSphere Commerce Version 7.0 to WebSphere Commerce Version 8.0.
- Deploying
  The topics in this section describe how to publish stores to either a test or production environment, and how to deploy customized code.
- Operating
- Integrating
  Topics in the Integrating category highlight the tasks that are commonly performed for using WebSphere Commerce in combination with other products.
- Administering
- Tutorials
  WebSphere Commerce provides many tutorials to help you customize and understand your WebSphere Commerce instance and stores.
- Samples
- Developing
  The topics in the Developing section describe tasks performed by an application developer.
- Compliance
  The following section describes how you can leverage WebSphere Commerce features and functionality to help your site be compliant with different privacy and security standards.
- Securing
  These topics describe the security features of WebSphere Commerce and how to configure these features.
- Performance
- Troubleshooting

Preparing WebSphere Commerce Developer Version 7.0 for migration

To prepare for migration from version 7.0 to version 8.0, commit customized code and published stores to a source control repository and back up the development database.

Procedure

Back up your customized code, including published stores, into a source control repository. For example, Rational Application Developer comes with support for CVS and Rational ClearCase. See your Rational Application Developer documentation for details on backing up source code.
Back up your version 7.0 development database by using one of the following methods:
- Backup overview
- See the database vendor documentation.
  Note: When you restore the Oracle database, the character sets are automatically converted to AL32UTF8.
- Copy your WebSphere Commerce Developer Version 7.0 database directory to another location of your choice. For example, copy WC_toolkit70\db\mall to c:\DB_backup\db\mall.