Loading utilities
WebSphere Commerce provides utilities for preparing and loading data into a WebSphere Commerce database. These utilities provide various functions that can be strung together in the required sequence to solve your particular commerce data management problems. The loading utilities are flexible enough to handle customizations that are made to the WebSphere Commerce schema.
The utilities use valid and well-formed XML as input to load data into the database. Elements of the XML document map to table names in the database, and element attributes map to columns.
Use the loading utilities to:
- Load large amounts of data and to update data in your WebSphere Commerce database.
- Import data from multiple input sources in the form of ASCII and XML files into WebSphere Commerce.
- Transform data from ASCII to XML format and back again.
- Map data from one XML format to another.
- Aggregate data from multiple input streams into one aggregated database
The loading utilities consist of the following utilities:
- txttransform utility
- This utility transforms data between a character-delimited format and an XML data format.
- xmltransform utility
- This utility transforms XML data into alternative XML formats.
- dtdgen utility
- This utility generates a DTD based on the target database.
- idresgen utility
- This utility generates identifiers for XML elements.
- massload utility
- This utility loads data into the WebSphere Commerce database.
- fileloader utility
- This utility loads managed files into the WebSphere Commerce database.
- massextract utility
- This utility extracts data from a database as an XML document.
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