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HCL Commerce is a high-availability, highly scalable and customizable e-commerce platform. Able to support hundreds of thousands of transactions per day, HCL Commerce allows you to do business with consumers (B2C) or directly with businesses (B2B). HCL Commerce uses cloud friendly technology to make deployment and operation both easy and efficient. 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. Business users can also use AI enabled content management capabilities.
Troubleshooting
Topics in the Troubleshooting section highlight common issues that are encountered with HCL Commerce, and how they can be addressed or mitigated.
Access control issues
Access control problems are often indicated by generic application errors with error message keys such as _ERR_USER_AUTHORITY. The first step in problem determination is to enable tracing for the access control component.
Member hierarchy of resource owner is invalid
An application error message indicates that the membership hierarchy of a resource owner is invalid.

Documentation
HCL Commerce is a high-availability, highly scalable and customizable e-commerce platform. Able to support hundreds of thousands of transactions per day, HCL Commerce allows you to do business with consumers (B2C) or directly with businesses (B2B). HCL Commerce uses cloud friendly technology to make deployment and operation both easy and efficient. 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. Business users can also use AI enabled content management capabilities.
- Getting started
  HCL Commerce has different advantages for business users, administrators and developers. HCL Commerce targets each of these roles with a tailored set of offerings so that each of your users can get maximum benefit.
- Installing and deploying
  Learn how to install and deploy HCL Commerce development environments and HCL Commerce production environments.
- Migrating
  Before you migrate to HCL Commerce Version 9.1, review this information to help plan and execute your migration.
- Operating
  Topics in the Operating category highlight tasks that are typically performed by business users, customer support representatives, to complete their day-to-day tasks in the operation of the HCL Commerce site.
- Integrating
  Topics in the Integrating category highlight the tasks that are commonly performed for using HCL Commerce in combination with other products.
- Administering
  Topics in the Administering category highlight tasks that are typically performed by the Site Administrator, to support daily operations of the HCL Commerce site.
- Customizing
  The topics in the Customizing section describe tasks performed by an application developer to customize HCL Commerce.
- Tutorials
  HCL Commerce provides many tutorials to help you customize and understand your HCL Commerce instance and stores.
- Samples
  Topics in the Samples category highlight the various samples that are provided with HCL Commerce.
- Compliance
  The following section describes how you can leverage HCL Commerce features and functionality to help your site be compliant with different privacy and security standards.
- Securing
  These topics describe the security features of HCL Commerce and how to configure these features.
- Performance
  Topics in the Performance section describe the means by which to plan, implement, test, and re-visit the optimization of HCL Commerce site performance.
- Troubleshooting
  Topics in the Troubleshooting section highlight common issues that are encountered with HCL Commerce, and how they can be addressed or mitigated.
  - Contacting HCL Customer Support
    HCL Customer Support provides assistance with product defects. Contact HCL if you require assistance with an HCL Commerce problem.
  - MustGather requirements for HCL Support
    Use the following topics to gather the required information that you need to troubleshoot issues that you are facing with HCL Commerce with HCL Support.
  - The Must-Gather application
    The Must-Gather application helps collect troubleshooting information required to resolve HCL Commerce issues.
  - Store issues
    Review the following information when you encounter with any problems related to HCL Commerce stores.
  - Installation issues
    Installing and uninstalling HCL Commerce encompass a wide range of procedures. If you encounter problems, refer to the following resources for assistance.
  - Integration issues
    Integrating HCL Commerce encompass a wide range of procedures. If you encounter problems, refer to the following resources for assistance.
  - General issues
    Review the following information when you encounter any general problems with HCL Commerce.
  - Migration issues
    Migrating HCL Commerce involves a wide range of steps across your different environments. If you encounter problems, refer to the following resources for assistance.
  - Search issues
    If you encounter problems while you use HCL Commerce Search, refer to the troubleshooting information to help determine the problem and find possible solutions.
  - Logging issues
    If you encounter problems while you use HCL Commerce logging, refer to the following troubleshooting information to help determine the problem and find possible solutions.
  - Access control issues
    Access control problems are often indicated by generic application errors with error message keys such as _ERR_USER_AUTHORITY. The first step in problem determination is to enable tracing for the access control component.
    - Missing policy for a new view
      A new view is missing an access control policy.
    - Missing policy for new controller command
      A controller command was added without an accompanying access control policy.
    - Missing resource-level policy for a command
      A controller command, that does resource level access control checking, was extended without adding the resource-level access control policy for the new command
    - Policy group subscription
      A policy that you expect to grant access appears in the trace, however it is not being applied.
    - Member hierarchy of resource owner is invalid
      An application error message indicates that the membership hierarchy of a resource owner is invalid.
    - Unexpected access control error after subscribing a policy group to an organization
      An access control error can occur, when trying to manage organization (or its descendants) for which you already have authority.
  - Aurora starter store
    If you encounter problems when you use the Aurora starter store, refer to the troubleshooting information to help determine the problem and find possible solutions.
  - Member group issues
- Reference
  Topics in the Reference section contain all of the HCL Commerce reference documentation.

Troubleshooting: Member hierarchy of resource owner is invalid

An application error message indicates that the membership hierarchy of a resource owner is invalid.

Problem

Member hierarchy of resource owner is invalid.

Indication

An application error is displayed. In addition, an error similar to the following example is logged to the trace.log file:

WC_ACCESSCONT PolicyManagerImpl.getParentOrganizationsForResource 
Error: No parent organizations; defaulting to Root Organization. 
        MBRREL table or Dynacache may be in invalid state.

WC_ACCESSCONT PolicyManagerImpl.isAllowed isAllowed? 
        User=100000000517; Action=Execute;
       
Resource=com.ibm.commerce.scheduler.commands.ListRegistryCmdImpl; 
        Owner=555; Resource Ancestor Orgs=-2001; Resource
Applicable Orgs=-2001

Solution

For example, given the preceding error message that member 555 does not have a parent organization, the MBRREL table should be populated, to specify its ancestors. If its parent is organization 2002, and its grandparent organization is Root Organization, you would populate the MBRREL database table with correct membership hierarchy data for the resource owner as shown in the following example:


descendant_id	ancestor_id	sequence
555	2002	1
555	-2001	2