Migrate your Watson Content Hub integration for WebSphere Commerce Version 8 Developer

If you integrated Watson Content Hub with the WebSphere Commerce Version 8 development environment, we can migrate this integration to the WebSphere Commerce Version 9 development environment.

Note: If you integrated Watson Content Hub with the WebSphere Commerce Version 8 runtime environment, see Migrating your Watson Content Hub integration.

Before beginning

1. Migrate the development database.

2. Migrate our custom assets.

3. Migrate the site security.

4. Updating your XML configuration files.

Procedure

1. Update the STORECONF table to include your Watson Content Hub host name.

   1. Go to Watson Content Hub.

      • https://www.digitalexperience.ibm.com

   2. Log on to Watson Content Hub by using your IBMid.

   3. In the Watson Content Hub header, expand the menu by clicking your user name.

   4. Click Hub information.

   5. Note the value and format of the host name. For example: https://myX.digitalexperience.ibm.com.

   6. Open a database command prompt and connect to the database.

   7. Run the following SQL and use the host name that you just acquired.

      update storeconf set value='https://myX.digitalexperience.ibm.com' where name='wc.externalContent.hostName';

      Where X is a number value associated with your host name. For example, https://my1.digitalexperience.ibm.com.

2. Restart the WebSphere Commerce server.

3. Restart the search server.

4. Enable SSL for Watson Content Hub integration.

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