Category Archives: Siebel Tools

Siebel Open UI -coming 2012

User Interface has been the most disappointing feature of Siebel Application. It is not flexible, intuitive,user friendly or cool. In addition to that we are stuck only with IE for High Interactivity (HI) applications. It would seem that Siebel is unaware of all the development that is happening on the web with respect to web…

Siebel Open Variable Analyzer

In the last post we discussed about causes and possible remedies of Memory leaks in Siebel and I gave an overview of the utility that Timur Vafin has created with a combination of SQL queries and perl script to actually go through the scripts and find out variables and object that have not been destroyed. In this post…

Regular Expression equals saving time

The tip I am sharing in this post is very trivial but might save somebody hours of boring manual job. This will come handy especially for people who work in support projects and need to query often at database or application from the information provided in excel sheet.

Identifying SRF differences

Today  Brijesh Dhobale a reader of Siebel Unleashed is sharing a very informative article about identifying changes from  one SRF to another. This can be very important if you are in an implementation project and have a periodic release cycle. For SOX compliance audit, change log is important. In Siebel application since everything goes in…

Siebel and System performance

I have started working on Siebel 8 fairly recently in comparison to many of you. I recently installed Siebel 8 Tools and Dedicated client on a new system and noticed a considerable increase in boot time of my Operating System (Windows XP Professional in case you are wondering). I didn’t gave it a lot of…

Installing Oracle Interim Patch

A post about Installing a patch!!! You must be thinking what is there share about clicking Setup.exe and installing some patches. If that is the case you have never came across Oracle Interim Patch. “An Interim Patch (formerly known as a “one-off” patch) is a bug fix (or set of fixes) made available to customers…

Compare Object – more than just comparison

From the day I have joined Siebel, everyday there is something new that I learn about Siebel (OK, OK may be not everyday ) Few days back I learned a new trick that could be time saver for lot of people out there. Many of you might be already aware of it but I was…

dbisqlc.exe and data export

While working with local we often have to use dbisqlc.exe to run queries on our Local DBF files and many times we need to export data that comes as a result of our queries. Till yesterday I believed that there is no way to export data from dbisqlc.exe but while surfing on web yesterday I…