Traditionally we’ve been having issues with .csv imports on Websphere 6.0. Normally we’d get about 12 products imported and on the next one Websphere will explode in a ball of fury sending flaming body parts all over the office (more precisely it hangs on the “please wait…” screen). As a work around I tried importing a file, then adding it to it’s respective sales catalogs, this would typically take about 2 minutes at the most, then I’d wait for another 2-3 minutes before importing another file. by doing this I was able to import upwards of 18 products before the great explosion.
It’s kind of a slow process and isn’t so much a workaround as it is just delaying the inevitable but until further notice this is the best we have 