IBM WCS - Disabling/Enabling the product compare feature from PLP page.

Follow the Below Steps:

1. In Database, Search for "PAGELAYOUT" Table.Check for the Name="DefaultCategoryPageLayout" and confirm its "PAGELAYOUTTYPE_ID"="Category".
2. Note down it's corresponding "PAGELAYOUT_ID" eg: PAGELAYOUT_ID=10052 (in My case).
3. Then navigate to the "PLWIDGET" table in the Database.
4. Filter the rows with the "PAGELAYOUT_ID"(Noted in the Above step-2).In that navigate to the corresponding column "ADMINNAME" with value "CatalogEntryListWidget" and note its "PLWIDGET_ID" Eg: PLWIDGET_ID=1110 (In my case).
5. In Database now navigate to "PLWIDGETNVP" table and filter the rows with the "PLWIDGET_ID" fetched in the above step-4.
6. Now navigate to the row with value "NAME=disableProductCompare".
7. The corresponding Value column will have "false" by Default(which means the compare feature is enabled).
8. Now Make it "True" to Disable and "False" to Enable.

Note: The compare option will still be available in the search results page, To disable it repeat the same steps as above for the "Name=DefaultSearchResultLayout"  in the PAGELAYOUT table.

Note:- Finally To Test don't forget to do registry Update in the Admin console.