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HCL COMMERCE VERSION 9.1
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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.

  3. Installing and deploying

    Learn how to install and deploy HCL Commerce development environments and HCL Commerce production environments.

  4. Setting up HCL Commerce environments

    Learn how to set up development, testing, and production environments, and how to update the production environment through deploying custom changes and applying maintenance.

  5. Setting up an HCL Commerce development environment

    This section describes how to set up an HCL Commerce development environment. The HCL Commerce development environment is a flexible collection of software, collectively known as HCL Commerce Developer, for developers or system administrators to develop and test stores and HCL Commerce application code.

  6. Developer Legacy environment

    In previous iterations of HCL Commerce, all site features were developed within a single development environment. This environment was built with the HCL Commerce Developer software package. With HCL Commerce Version 9.1, this software environment has been renamed to the HCL Commerce Developer Legacy environment to more reflect its usage within the product.

  7. Installing HCL Commerce Developer

    You can install HCL Commerce Developer silently, or by using the IBM Installation Manager GUI.

  • 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.

      • HCL Commerce assemblies

        HCL Commerce consists of HCL Commerce Enterprise, and HCL Commerce Developer, a separate offering that is used by developers of the platform. Each offering is logically divided into subpackages called electronic assemblies, or eAssemblies. An eAssembly is a group of software that is devoted to a particular platform or environment. Each eAssembly contains the individual product images for that environment, called parts. Which parts you need depends on your usage and configuration choices.

      • Downloading software

        To set up an HCL Commerce production, development, or test environment, you require the associated product software images.

      • Supported software levels, fixes, and settings

        The following table provides a list of generally available (GA) software levels, fixes, and settings for the latest HCL Commerce Version 9.1 release.

      • Hardware requirements

        The following reference provides a general guideline for the hardware capacity that is required for the HCL Commerce Version 9.1 release. This includes both full development and production environments for sites that are based on different sets of HCL Commerce solutions.

      • Setting up HCL Commerce environments

        Learn how to set up development, testing, and production environments, and how to update the production environment through deploying custom changes and applying maintenance.

        • Setting up an HCL Commerce development environment

          This section describes how to set up an HCL Commerce development environment. The HCL Commerce development environment is a flexible collection of software, collectively known as HCL Commerce Developer, for developers or system administrators to develop and test stores and HCL Commerce application code.

          • Obtaining HCL Commerce Developer software

            To set up an HCL Commerce development environment, you require associated product software images and Software Development Kits (SDKs).

          • Developer Legacy environment

            In previous iterations of HCL Commerce, all site features were developed within a single development environment. This environment was built with the HCL Commerce Developer software package. With HCL Commerce Version 9.1, this software environment has been renamed to the HCL Commerce Developer Legacy environment to more reflect its usage within the product.

            • Setup prerequisites for an HCL Commerce Developer Legacy environment

              To set up an HCL Commerce Developer Legacy environment, install the appropriate prerequisite software: Rational Application Developer, WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Application Server V8.5.5 Liberty, and the appropriate Java SDK version. You also need to prepare your IBM Db2 or Oracle development database.

            • Installing HCL Commerce Developer

              You can install HCL Commerce Developer silently, or by using the IBM Installation Manager GUI.

              • ... using the IBM Installation Manager

                You can install HCL Commerce Developer by using the graphical installation program.

              • ... silently

                You can install HCL Commerce Developer by using a silent response file.

            • Configuring a database

              Prepare a Db2 or Oracle database to use as the HCL Commerce development environment database.

            • Loading the HCL Commerce Developer database schema

              You need to use a script to load the HCL Commerce database schema.

            • Changing the development database type by using the setdbtype command

              You must configure your HCL Commerce Developer workspace to point to your IBM Db2 or Oracle database that you installed as a prerequisite.

            • Adding certificates

              When integrating HCL Commerce with an external system, it is required to add the third party certificates to the HCL Commerce trust store. This allows HCL Commerce to make HTTPS requests to an external system.

            • Configuring the Developer Legacy environment for Solr

              After installation, your HCL Commerce Developer Legacy environment is configured by default for use with the newer Elasticsearch-based search solution that was introduced in HCL Commerce Version 9.1. Complete the following steps to revert your Developer Legacy environment to maintain or develop sites that use the Solr-based search solution.

            • Deploying Redis for HCL Cache

              Deploy and configure Redis on your HCL Commerce Developer Legacy environment to test HCL Cache caching and cache invalidation.

            • Starting the Cache Manager

              Configure the HCL Commerce Cache Manager application within your HCL Commerce development environment to aid in the control of your caching implementation.

            • Enabling Marketplace

              Marketplace is a new store feature introduced in HCL Commerce 9.1.10.0. Due to the fact that this feature is still early in development, and not ready for a full production setting, the early implementation of Marketplace is not enabled in HCL Commerce Developer by default. Enable Marketplace to preview its usage within your HCL Commerce Developer Legacy environment.

            • Verifying your HCL Commerce Developer installation

              To verify your installation, ensure that you can browse the sample Aurora starter store and that you can access business user tools.

          • Developer Search environment

            HCL Commerce Version 9.1 provides support for Elasticsearch by default. Use the HCL Commerce Developer Search environment to make customizations to the search solution.

          • Developer React Store environment

            HCL Commerce provides a standalone HCL Commerce Developer React Store environment. This environment uses the React Store Software Development Kit (SDK) with reference Single Page Application (SPA) Stores that are based on the Node.js react-app. The HCL Commerce Developer React Store environment is completely independent of the HCL Commerce Developer Legacy environment.

          • Developer Next.js Store environment

            Refer to storeseparation/tasks/ruby_downloadsdk.html for instructions on how to download the Next.js Store SDK.

          • Developer Tooling environment

            HCL Commerce provides a standalone HCL Commerce Developer Tooling environment Software Development Kit (SDK).

          • Developer Solr-based Nextjs Store environment

            The Orchestration service acts as a bridge between Ruby applications that can only recognize Elastic-based search formats, and Solr-based search services. If you plan to develop for Ruby applications for use with a Solr-based search solution, you must configure the Orchestration service to test your storefronts in an HCL Commerce development environment.

          • Uninstalling HCL Commerce Developer

            Uninstalling HCL Commerce Developer consists of removing HCL Commerce Developer and Rational Application Developer from your computer.

        • Setting up an HCL Commerce production environment

          You can set up your production environment however you like by using the provided Docker images for your HCL Commerce servers.

        • Default port numbers

          Review this information for the default port numbers that are used by HCL Commerce services or the component products.

      • Deploying custom changes

        With HCL Commerce Version 9.1, you can customize HCL Commerce Docker image with the source code, configurations, and the Docker container start-up logic. Learn how to build Docker images with your customized code and deploy the images (and other changes) to your Docker containers.

      • Updating HCL Commerce overview

        Learn about HCL Commerce release types, and learn how to update your custom HCL Commerce site deployments.

    • 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.

    • Reference

      Topics in the Reference section contain all of the HCL Commerce reference documentation.

HCL Commerce Developer

Installing HCL Commerce Developer

You can install HCL Commerce Developer silently, or by using the IBM Installation Manager GUI.

Before you begin

Ensure that you installed the prerequisite software.

Procedure

    • Installing HCL Commerce Developer by using the IBM Installation Manager
      You can install HCL Commerce Developer by using the graphical installation program.
    • Installing HCL Commerce Developer silently
      You can install HCL Commerce Developer by using a silent response file.
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