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Troubleshooting Watson Content Hub Integration |
Commerce V8 and WCH Integration
With
the
release
of
Commerce
Version
8.04,
we
are
now
able
to
integrate
with
Watson
Content
Hub.
I
wanted
to
provide
some
insight
on
integrating
with
WCH.
How
it
can
be
used
and
how
to
set
this
up
with
Commerce.
What
is
Watson
Content
Hub?
WCH
is
the
new
IBM
SaaS
Content
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Performance Considerations for Stagingprop ConsolidationTags: performance consolidation stagingprop stagingprop_performance staglog shant minassians
Stagingprop
has
two
stages
for
propagating
data
from
a
staging
to
a
production
server:
consolidation
and
propagation.
In
this
blog
we'll
cover
some
important
aspects
for
tuning
stagingprop
consolidation
performance.
During
the
consolidation
stage,
the
utility
examines
the
STAGLOG
table
for
unprocessed
records,
and
it
marks
as
processed
those
that
don't
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How is the list of supported currencies determined for a store?
The
list
of
supported
currencies
to
a
WebSphere
Commerce
site
are
defined
in
the
SETCURR table.
The
list
of
currencies
supported
to
a
specific
store
are
defined
in
the
CURLIST table.
A
store
can
also
inherit
supported
currencies
from
another
stored.
This
is
done
through
the
STOREREL
table.
This
is
how
extended
site
stores
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Don’t forget to disable unused business events!
I
have
seen
a
couple
of
customers
running
into
performance
issues
related
to
the BUSEVENT table.
This
usually
happens
when
many
unused
events
are
enabled
in
the
wc-server.xml
as
it
writes
a
significant
amount
of
data
into
the
table.
Hence
I
would
like
to
write
this
blog
to
remind
you
to
disable
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Feature to generate non-sequential primary keys in Commerce
As
part
of
the
8.0.3.0
release,
the
Keys
framework
was
modified
to
allow
for
a
non-sequential
key
to
be
generated
for
the
ADDRESS
and
ORDERS
tables.
It
can
also
be
used
for
other
primary
keys
generated
by
the
Keys
framework.
This
is
feature
to
enhance
the
security
of
the
application
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Best Practices: Third party external systems integrations
Many
sites
have
a
need
to
integrate
with
one
or
more
third
party
external
systems,
whether
this
need
is
for
transferring
orders,
fetching
tax
information,
pricing,
payments,
etc.
These
integrations
may
operate
over
a
variety
of
transport
methods
such
as
MQ/JMS,
HTTP
WebServices
or
RESTful
services.
Whenever
developing
an
external
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Resolving a SSL Handshake issue in Commerce Store Preview when disabling TLSv1.1
In
this
blog
I
wanted
to
discuss
how
to
resolve
a
SSL
Handshake
issue
that
is
seen
when
the
IBM
HTTP
Server
fronting
Commerce
has
been
updated
to
prevent
TLSv1.0
and
TLSv1.1,
as
mentioned
in
the
Commerce and TLS1.2 blog.
I
recently
worked
with
a
client
whom
had
taken
the
steps
mentioned
in
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Troubleshooting Promotion: Analyzing Problem Using DatabaseTags: shoebkhan bihari discount shoebvb wcs ordiadjust promotion ordadjust shoeb xmlparam bogo px_promotion
In
this
post,
we
will
look
at
the
promotion
requirement
and
expected
behavior
with
respect
to
the
shopping
cart
content
by
simply
reviewing
the
database
data.
In
near
future,
I'm
planing
to
have
another
blog
on
using
promotion
trace
to
understand
how
promotion
is
getting
evaluated
and
discounted.
For
this
post,
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Maintaining Staging and Production Databases Clean and ConsistentTags: stage maitenance dbclean minassians stagingprop shant
The
cleanup
task
during
maintenance
of
a
staging
and
production
environments
always
needs
mutual
consideration.
You
should
not
run
a
cleanup
task
without
considering
data
consistency
between
the
two
servers.
Note:
the
following
information
assumes
that
your
staging
and
production
servers
have
data-consistency
(or
in
sych).
If
you're
going
to
perform
a
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Report product documentation gaps or problems without opening a PMR
Have
you
ever
read
an
IBM
product's
Knowledge Center
and
found
an
error
or
omission
on
a
page
and
want
to
report
it?
We
create
the
documentation
with
your
use
in
mind,
so
we
value
your
input
and
would
appreciate
your
help
to
make
it
better!
Many
times,
such
reports
come
into
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Which JSP Is Used When Handling XSS Instructions?
Cross-site scripting protection
is
enabled
by
default
in
WebSphere
Commerce
and
Commerce
On
Cloud,
and
the
default
error
page
for
prohibited
characters
is
ProhibitedCharacterError.jsp.
If
you're
testing
for
prohibited
characters
and
you're
forwarded
to
a
different
page
(such
as
SecurityError.jsp),
here
is
the
reason
why...
Let's
take
for
instance
a
case
where
you're
testing
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Thread Locking in WebApp.getAttribute (PI35449)Tags: javacores bottleneck support wcs voldman outage healthcenter troubleshooting bluemix performance locking
I
recently
worked
on
a
PMR
where
an
unusual
stack
seemed
to
be
causing
a
lot
of
WebContainer
threads
to
lock
which
impacted
performance,
so
I
thought
of
sharing
this
scenario
in
case
you
have
been
noticing
the
same
during
performance
tuning,
and
weren't
able
to
figure
out
the
cause.
If
... [ + Read more ]
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Troubleshooting Marketing: Analyzing E-Spot TraceTags: activity page web shoeb shoebvb espot bihari emarketingspot web-activity emspot marketing e-marketing current spot
In
earlier
posts,
we
looked
at
how
espots
are
created
and
stored
in
database,
and
techniques
to
trace
the
espot
requests.
In
this
post,
we
will
examine
low
level
marketing
trace
to
understand
how
marketing
logic
evaluates
the
web
activity
to
display
target
specific
content
in
espot.
If
haven't
reviewed
... [ + Read more ]
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REST Caching in WebSphere CommerceTags: rest troubleshooting wcs datacache cse invalidation seanwang voldman cache support
WebSphere
Commerce
uses
REST
services
to
provide
a
framework
to
develop
RESTful
applications. REST
services
use
both
server-side
caching
and
client-side
caching.
Server-side
caching
is
achieved
by
using
dynacache,
and
client-side
caching
is
achieved
by
using
cache
directives
in
the
response
header.
Although
REST
service
caching
is
well-documented
in
IBM
Knowledge
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