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 Q31. Define Business policy categories provided by WCS ?IBM WCS
Ans. Catalog business policies

Catalog business policies define the scope and characteristics of the catalog of products for sale in a store including prices and the categorization of products in a store's catalog.

Payment business policies

Invoicing, payment, and refund business policies define how a store accepts payments, pays refunds, and the format of a store's invoices.

Returns business policies

Returns business policies define if refunds are accepted, the time period they are accepted for, and any re-stocking fees applied to returns.

Shipping business policies

Shipping business policies define the shipping providers a store can use and the charges associated with each type.

Referral interface business policies

Referral interface business policies define the relationship between a proxy store and a remote store.

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 Q32. What are the steps to create a new business policy ?IBM WCS
Ans. Step 1 - Create a new policy definition by adding record in tables POLICY, POLICYDESC.
Step 3 - Associate commands to the new policy by adding records in POLICYCMD.
Step 2 - Associate the new policy with its terms and conditions by adding a record in relationship table POLICYTC.
Step 4 - Add reference to the policy in the repective contract xml file.

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 Q33. How can we enable promotion engine logs ?IBM WCS
Ans. By making Debug=true within WCSPromotionEngineConfig.xml

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 Q34. Which table holds the encrypted login password ?IBM WCS
Ans. USERREG

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 Q35. Where do we store DB configuration and how can we change that ?IBM WCS
Ans. wc-server.xml stores the DB configuration. We can either change it manually or by using setdbtype command.

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 Q36. How can we remove a JSP page from getting cached ?IBM WCS
Ans. Remove the jsp entry from cachespec.xml.

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 Q37. How can i get to know all the active promotions without going to management center ?IBM WCS
Ans. We can query the DB as follows

Select NAME from PX_PROMOTION where STATUS=1;

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 Q38. I want to collect email addresses of all Registered Users. Which table should I refer ?IBM WCS
Ans. ADDRESS

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 Q39. How can you check the status of an ORDER ?IBM WCS
Ans. By querying the STATUS from the ORDERS table.

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 Q40. What steps are needed to create a new promotion type ?IBM WCS
Ans. a. Create necessary lzx files( template , object definition and properties ), make config entries and then Build open Laszlo project ( for LOBTools ) so that new promotion type should be displayed in management center.

b. Create a new promotion type xsl ( promotion type template ) and then map it to the promotion type.

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 Q41. What is purchase condition and reward in promotions ?IBM WCS
Ans. Purchase condition is the condition that must be fulfilled before a promotion is applied and Reward is the benefit that is passed to customer.

For Example - If promotion is "Buy 2 Quantity of X, Get Y Free" , Purchase condition is inclusion of 2 qty of X in Cart. Reward in this case would be 1 qty of Y.

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 Q42. How Promotions are created and stored in WCS ?IBM WCS
Ans. Promotions are created either using Management Center or Accelerator. PX_PROMOTION table is used to store Promotions. Complete Promotion is stored as an XML string within XMLPARAM column. Other tables which are used to store promotion related information are -

CATENTCALCD
CALCODE
CLCDPROMO

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 Q43. What is difference between Product and Item ?IBM WCS
Ans. Item is a sale-able merchandise where as Product is a group of sale-able merchandise which share certain attributes. For example - Cell phone is a product whereas Samsung Galaxy S2 - White is an item.

Quantity is always attached to SKU ( Stock keeping unit ) or items. Product quantity has no relevance in terms of identify the current stock or reorder condition.

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 Q44. What is the difference between Controller and Task Command ?IBM WCS
Ans. Controller Command is the command that gets called upon a request, just like We have actions in struts and controller in Spring. Task is a step in this bigger process. Task command are the commands that perform specific task for a controller command, like service classes in other frameworks. In order to complete the request, a controller command may invoke multiple task commands.

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