The merchandising environment runs the ATG Merchandising application (which also requires ATG Commerce and ATG Content Administration). The merchandising environment manages the Commerce catalog and other data in versioned repositories, and deploys data from these versioned repositories to nonversioned repositories on the production environment. Note that the data loading environment also accesses this data, so both the production environment and the data loading environment need to be deployment targets for the merchandising environment to ensure that the repository caches on these environments remain in synch.
For information about installing and running ATG Merchandising, see the ATG Merchandising User Guide. In addition to following the instructions found there, run the following import script to create the default segment lists for reporting:
<ATG2007.3dir>/DCS/Versioned/install/importDCSVersioned
When you assemble your EAR file for the merchandising environment, include the ARF.base application module.
