As part of WebSphere Commerce v7.0 Feature Pack 5, IBM released a new feature, the Aurora page layout framework, that has the potential to significantly allow the business users to maintain and change specific page designs and content, schedule them, and prioritize them based upon business or creative needs.
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The following SQL can be used to create a new e-marketing spot that is used to display text or other text-based creative, like HTML.
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The following SQL can be used to create a new e-marketing spot that is used to display an image asset. The image must exist for this SQL to work; however, once you can reference it, this SQL can be used to create the associated asset, content, and e-marketing spot records.
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I recently was working on a client project in WebSphere Commerce, specifically within the payment framework and needed to update some data within the PPCEXTDATA table. As I needed to encrypt the data specific to the WebSphere Commerce instance, I needed to discover the plain text merchant key to encrypt the data so it could be read and decrypted properly.
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For those that use WebSphere Commerce, especially if you’re taking advantage of internationalization and localization, you’ve used many a resource bundles. You also understand how challenging it can be when you have to consistently modify your properties, only to have to restart your application server in order to view the updates. Here is a solution that will allow you to change your property files, and refresh them automatically without restarting your application server.
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