IBM SG24-6320-00 Manuel D’Utilisation

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non-secure session cookies, which are used to manage the session data, 
and secure authentication cookies used to manage authentication data. 
Single sign-on
WebSphere Commerce supports single sign-on when configured with an LDAP 
directory. 
2.3.2  Catalog subsystem
The Catalog subsystem provides online catalog navigation, merchandising 
features, interest lists, and search capabilities. The Catalog subsystem includes 
all logic and data relevant to a catalog, including categories, products and their 
attributes, items, and any associations or relationships among them. It interacts 
with the Member subsystems and the Order subsystems to obtain information 
about viewing templates and pricing. The following features are provided:
Groupings
A generic grouping construct is introduced for categorizations of various 
products. The owner of a catalog group may not necessarily be the owner of 
all the catalog entries in the group. This allows portal owners to define the 
categories of products offered while other suppliers can add their products to 
the catalog group.
Catalog entries
One or more catalog entries can belong to a catalog group. A set of base 
object types is provided to represent products, stock keeping unit (SKU) 
items, packages, and bundles in a catalog entry.
Merchandising associations
These make it possible to create an association between any two catalog 
objects, which become cross-sells, up-sells, and promotions.
Globalization support
The catalog design addresses the requirement to support multicultural 
features such as product display and currency format according to the locale.