Once the FEP7 installation is done and the starter store is published with some example data, the next step is the SOLR index configuration (setupSearchIndex), pre-process (di-preprocess) and build (di-buildindex).

However, during the pre-process step I faced an interesting exception. In fact, running the following command

di-preprocess.bat <WC_installfolder>\search\pre-processConfig\MC_<catalogId>\DB2

the process ended with the exception:

SEVERE: Exception message: CWFDIH0001: Data Import encountered a generic error. The error is null. , stack trace: com.ibm.commerce.foundation.dataimport.exception.DataImportSystemException: CWFDIH0001: Data Import encountered a generic error. The error is null. 
	at com.ibm.commerce.foundation.dataimport.preprocess.DataImportPreProcessorMain.processDataConfig(DataImportPreProcessorMain.java:957)
	at com.ibm.commerce.foundation.dataimport.preprocess.DataImportPreProcessorMain.execute(DataImportPreProcessorMain.java:802)
	at com.ibm.commerce.foundation.dataimport.preprocess.DataImportPreProcessorMain.main(DataImportPreProcessorMain.java:289)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
	at com.ibm.commerce.foundation.dataimport.preprocess.StaticAttributeDataPreProcessor.process(StaticAttributeDataPreProcessor.java:299)
	at com.ibm.commerce.foundation.dataimport.preprocess.DataImportPreProcessorMain.processDataConfig(DataImportPreProcessorMain.java:919)
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