Changing workspaces locking policy

Do not change the workspaces locking policy if you have uncommitted data in any of your workspaces. This can cause undefined behavior with the uncommitted data.

WebSphere Commerce DeveloperNote: The development environment is not an authoring environment. Support is provided in the environment for customization purposes only. For example, testing changes to content management functionality. The ability to propagate changes is not available. If you want to make changes to the content management workspaces, you cannot publish the changes out to another database.
Before deciding on the locking policy to use on your authoring server, review the Considerations when selecting a locking policy topic carefully to understand the implications of each locking policy.

Procedure

  1. Copy the following file to a temporary location:
    • WebSphere Commerce Developer WCDE_installdir/xml/content-management/wc-resource-containers.xml
    • WC_eardir/xml/content-management/wc-resource-containers.xml
    This file should never be directly modified. For more information, refer to XML configuration directory.
  2. Open the temporary copy of the file in a text editor.
  3. Find the following text: 
    
<wc:DefaultConfiguration
   lockingPolicy="Workspaces_locking_policy"
   enableDynamicWorkspaceCreation="false"
   readPrefixName="WCR"
   writePrefixName="WCW"
  />
  4. For the locking policy you want to enable, replace Workspaces_locking_policy with one of the policy classes shown below the locking policy name:
    OptionDescription
    Workspaces locking com.ibm.commerce.context.content.locking.WorkspaceLockingPolicy
    Task group locking com.ibm.commerce.context.content.locking.TaskGroupLockingPolicy
    Task locking com.ibm.commerce.context.content.locking.TaskLockingPolicy
    No locking com.ibm.commerce.context.content.locking.NoLockingPolicy
  5. Save your changes.
  6. Update WebSphere Commerce with the updated file. For more information, see the Updating enterprise application files topic. Ensure that you follow the instructions for updating a single file.

    You will need the following information:

    Enterprise application name
    WC_enterprise_application
    Relative path to file
    xml/content-management/wc-resource-containers.xml
    Note: This step only applies to the WebSphere Commerce runtime environment.
  7. Stop and restart WebSphere Commerce.