V9 brought us support for containers and a microservices architecture, and this completely changed how environments are deployed. In this post, I will discuss the development team's views on the role of session affinity with the new architecture.   First, a recap: session affinity (aka sticky sessions) means that all requests during a ... [ + Read more ]

  In this "V9 Chats" series, we go to the source and interview Commerce experts from the Development, Services and Support teams, who share their insight into the new features and capabilities of WebSphere Commerce V9.   Contributors   Eric Scott ericscot@ca.ibm.com Support Analyst WebSphere Commerce, IBM Digital Commerce   Frank Wong zhwong@cn.ibm.com Search Architect WebSphere Commerce Development   Zhong Hua Wu wuzhongh@cn.ibm.com Search Architect WebSphere Commerce Development                     Search Q: ... [ + Read more ]

WebSphere Commerce V804 fixpack provides documentation and functions that can help your organization to start the journey to GDPR readiness. The GDPR has two primary objectives:   The protection of natural persons (data subjects) in the EU regarding the processing of personal data.  The free movement of personal data within and outside the ... [ + Read more ]

  In this "V9 Chats" series, we go to the source and interview Commerce experts from the Development, Services and Support teams, who share their insight into the new features and capabilities of WebSphere Commerce V9.   Contributors   Moeenqaisar Mamaparo mamaparo@ca.ibm.com Support Analyst WebSphere Commerce, IBM Digital Commerce   Yue Wang yuewcdl@cn.ibm.com Software Engineer WebSphere Commerce Development               V9 Development / Toolkit Environment   Q: Let ... [ + Read more ]

  In this V9 Chats series, we go to the source and interview Commerce experts from the Development, Services and Support teams, who share their insight into the new features and capabilities of WebSphere Commerce V9.   Contributors   Dima Shparyk dmytro.shparyk@ibm.com Support Analyst WebSphere Commerce, IBM Digital Commerce   Yi BJ Kong kongyibj@cn.ibm.com Software Engineer WebSphere Commerce Development               Deployment Strategy and Docker   Q: What are ... [ + Read more ]

If you encounter session crossover or resource conflict issue for concurrent REST requests, you can have a look if your REST RequestHandler/ResponseHandler have below similar wrong usage.   WebSphere Commerce REST framework is built on Apache Wink, there's a background that the Wink's RequestHandler/ResponseHandler will be instantiated only once during the RestServlet ... [ + Read more ]

  In this V9 Chats series, we go to the source and interview Commerce experts from the Development, Services and Support teams, who share their insight into the new features and capabilities of WebSphere Commerce V9.   Contributors   Dima Shparyk dmytro.shparyk@ibm.com Support Analyst WebSphere Commerce, IBM Digital Commerce   Piraveen Shanmuganathan piraveen@ca.ibm.com Support Analyst WebSphere Commerce, IBM Digital Commerce             Maintenance   Q: In V7 and V8, ... [ + Read more ]

In this V9 Chats series, we go to the source and interview Commerce experts from the Development, Services and Support teams, who share their insight into the new features and capabilities of WebSphere Commerce V9.   Contributors   Jeff Johnson jeffjohn@us.ibm.com WebSphere Commerce, IBM Digital Commerce   Zhen Liu lzhenbj@cn.ibm.com WebSphere Commerce Development                 Q: Let me start by asking about the new ... [ + Read more ]

  In this V9 Chats series, we go to the source and interview Commerce experts from the Development, Services and Support teams, who share their insight into the new features and capabilities of WebSphere Commerce V9.   Contributors   Mahhum Mobashir mobashir@ca.ibm.com Software Engineer - Commerce Technical Analyst WebSphere Commerce, IBM Digital Commerce   Zhi Jun Wang (Jeffrey) wzhijun@cn.ibm.com Commerce Developer WebSphere Commerce Development   Jiu ... [ + Read more ]

Watson Commerce Insights (WCI) consumes data from multiple sources such as store catalog, inventory, cost, plans, analytics etc, and presents in a way that allows merchandisers to identify problems and make better business decisions. In this post, let's go through the data flow between WCI and different systems it communicates ... [ + Read more ]

  In the last couple of years there has been a push for Web Sites to run completely in HTTPS. Features like Apple Pay require catalog pages to run in secure mode, and now beginning in July 2018, Chrome will start flagging all http pages as "non-secure" (see Google Security Blog - A secure web is here to stay). When you publish ... [ + Read more ]

As you get on-boarded into Watson Commerce insights (WCI) with WebSphere Commerce , You might be wondering what happens to sequencing and thumbnail feature in WebSphere Commerce Management Center (CMC) as this feature is also provided by WCI. This blog post is to clarify which tool can be used for ... [ + Read more ]

  In this V9 Chats series, we go to the source and interview Commerce experts from the Development, Services and Support teams, who share their insight into the new features and capabilities of WebSphere Commerce V9.   Contributors   Piraveen Shanmuganathan piraveen@ca.ibm.com Support Analyst WebSphere Commerce, IBM Digital Commerce   Yan Xia Zhang zhyanxia@cn.ibm.com Migration Developer WebSphere Commerce Development   James Fong jfong@ca.ibm.com Offering Advisor Watson Commerce Technical Enablement                     Migration   Q: ... [ + Read more ]

Parallel pre-processing and distributed indexing, or sharding, is a very useful tool that can help you improve the time it takes to preprocess and build your index. However, these benefits come with some complexities when dealing with the utility. In this blog post we will consider multiple scenarios when using ... [ + Read more ]

Have you ever noticed empty or blank pages while browsing your site? If so, in this post I will be discussing one of the possible reasons this could occur, and importantly how this can be prevented or resolved if it is occurring. Blank pages can occur for  a variety of reasons ... [ + Read more ]