diff --git a/off_chain_data/.gitignore b/off_chain_data/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cc6066a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/off_chain_data/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+addAssets.json
+mychannel__lifecycle.log
+mychannel_basic.log
+nextblock.txt
+wallet/
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/off_chain_data/README.md b/off_chain_data/README.md
index fbe4ecb4..79cde6da 100644
--- a/off_chain_data/README.md
+++ b/off_chain_data/README.md
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ The configuration for the listener is stored in the `config.json` file:
     "channelid": "mychannel",
     "use_couchdb":true,
     "create_history_log":true,
-    "couchdb_address": "http://localhost:5990"
+    "couchdb_address": "http://admin:password@localhost:5990"
 }
 ```
 
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ The configuration for the listener is stored in the `config.json` file:
 CouchDB. If set to false, only a local log of events will be stored.
 `create_history_log:` If true, a local log file will be created with all of the
 block changes.
-`couchdb_address:` is the local address for an off chain CouchDB database.
+`couchdb_address:` is the local address for an off chain CouchDB database with username and password.
 
 ### Create an instance of CouchDB
 
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ If you set the "use_couchdb" option to true in `config.json`, you can run the
 following command start a local instance of CouchDB using docker:
 
 ```
-docker run --publish 5990:5984 --detach --name offchaindb couchdb:2.3.1
+docker run -e COUCHDB_USER=admin -e COUCHDB_PASSWORD=password --publish 5990:5984 --detach --name offchaindb couchdb:3.1.1
 docker start offchaindb
 ```
 
diff --git a/off_chain_data/blockProcessing.js b/off_chain_data/blockProcessing.js
index eed61b24..a2acb286 100644
--- a/off_chain_data/blockProcessing.js
+++ b/off_chain_data/blockProcessing.js
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ exports.processBlockEvent = async function (channelname, block, use_couchdb, nan
                 for (var record in rwSet) {
 
                     // ignore lscc events
-                    if (rwSet[record].namespace != 'lscc') {
+                    if (rwSet[record].namespace != '_lifecycle') {
                         // create object to store properties
                         const writeObject = new Object();
                         writeObject.blocknumber = blockNumber;
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ exports.processBlockEvent = async function (channelname, block, use_couchdb, nan
                             try {
                                 await writeValuesToCouchDBP(nano, channelname, writeObject);
                             } catch (error) {
-
+                                 
                             }
                         }
                     }
@@ -136,14 +136,14 @@ async function writeValuesToCouchDBP(nano, channelname, writeObject) {
             const historydbname = channelname + '_' + writeObject.chaincodeid + '_history';
             // set values to the array of values received
             const values = writeObject.values;
-
+            
             try {
                 for (var sequence in values) {
                     let keyvalue =
                         values[
                         sequence
                         ];
-
+                    
                     if (
                         keyvalue.is_delete ==
                         true
@@ -159,6 +159,7 @@ async function writeValuesToCouchDBP(nano, channelname, writeObject) {
                                 keyvalue.value
                             )
                         ) {
+                            
                             //  insert or update value by key - this emulates world state behavior
                             await couchdbutil.writeToCouchDB(
                                 nano,
diff --git a/off_chain_data/config.json b/off_chain_data/config.json
index 4df92335..5852531f 100644
--- a/off_chain_data/config.json
+++ b/off_chain_data/config.json
@@ -3,5 +3,5 @@
     "channelid": "mychannel",
     "use_couchdb":true,
     "create_history_log":true,
-    "couchdb_address": "http://localhost:5990"
+    "couchdb_address": "http://admin:password@localhost:5990"
 }
diff --git a/off_chain_data/couchdbutil.js b/off_chain_data/couchdbutil.js
index 5e6a5329..c82c8b01 100644
--- a/off_chain_data/couchdbutil.js
+++ b/off_chain_data/couchdbutil.js
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ exports.writeToCouchDB = async function (nano, dbname, key, value) {
         try {
             await this.createDatabaseIfNotExists(nano, dbname);
         } catch (error) {
-
+            console.log("Error creating the database-"+error)
         }
 
         const db = nano.use(dbname);
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ exports.deleteRecord = async function (nano, dbname, key) {
         try {
             await this.createDatabaseIfNotExists(nano, dbname);
         } catch (error) {
-
+            console.log("Error creating the database-"+error)
         }
 
         const db = nano.use(dbname);
diff --git a/off_chain_data/startFabric.sh b/off_chain_data/startFabric.sh
index e340bed5..b22eefc8 100755
--- a/off_chain_data/startFabric.sh
+++ b/off_chain_data/startFabric.sh
@@ -11,7 +11,19 @@ starttime=$(date +%s)
 
 # launch network; create channel and join peer to channel
 pushd ../test-network
-./network.sh down
+
+# Fixes the issue of <sh: cd: line 1: can't cd to /data: No such file or directory> when running busybox in network down command on windows git bash
+case "$(uname -s)" in
+    CYGWIN*|MINGW32*|MSYS*|MINGW*)
+     echo 'Running on MS Windows'
+     export MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1
+     ./network.sh down
+     unset MSYS_NO_PATHCONV
+     ;;
+    *)
+     ./network.sh down
+     ;; 
+esac
 ./network.sh up createChannel -ca -s couchdb
 ./network.sh deployCC -ccn basic -ccp ../asset-transfer-basic/chaincode-go/ -ccl go