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Alexander Hansal
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Alexander Hansal has worked as an IT professional in small, medium, and global corporations. Since 2001, Alexander works as a technical instructor and consultant for Siebel CRM and Oracle Business Intelligence in Europe. He enjoys teaching, and shares his knowledge and expertise in his classes at Oracle University and in his weblog, http://siebel-essentials.blogspot.com/
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Automating developer tasks using command line options


The following tasks can be automated by running the Siebel Tools executable (siebdev.exe) and other utilities on the command line:

  • Validate the entire repository

  • Compile the entire repository

  • Compare two SRF files

  • Import from and export to archive (.sif) files

  • Convert custom labels to symbolic strings

  • Export object definitions for Application Deployment Manager (ADM)

To run a validation for the entire repository, a quite lengthy process, we have to invoke the Siebel Tools executable (siebdev.exe) from the command line similar to the following example:

C:\SIA8\Tools\BIN\siebdev.exe /d Local /u AHANSAL /p tzU87tr /bv

The /d switch specifies the data source while the /u and /p switches provide the username and password for that data source. Apart from these switches, the /bv (batch validation) switch will launch the validation utility automatically after Siebel Tools is started.

To compile the entire repository, also called a Full Compile, we use...

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Alexander Hansal has worked as an IT professional in small, medium, and global corporations. Since 2001, Alexander works as a technical instructor and consultant for Siebel CRM and Oracle Business Intelligence in Europe. He enjoys teaching, and shares his knowledge and expertise in his classes at Oracle University and in his weblog, http://siebel-essentials.blogspot.com/
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