3
Mar
2010
My Oracle Support Non Flash Version
We all need Professional support one time or the other, no matter, what our role is in a Project Implementation.
Professional Support for Siebel from the vendor has gone from..
Siebel Supportweb (god, I loved it!) -> Oracle Metalink3 -> Oracle’s My Oracle Support
19
Feb
2010
Siebel – Unable to login to mobile client
After long time I am writing a blog…
This time related to Siebel Admin 
Earlier I used to work with Siebel 7.8 and now 8.1..
So quite a different experience..
In Siebel 8.1, I had successfully initilized my dbf from tool and was able to login into Siebel Tools.
But suprisingly, using same dbf I was not able to login to my mobile client and it was throwing the error,
“user id /password not correct..”
28
Oct
2009
CRUD
No, I am not referring to the Billiards game here. While browsing the Internet, I keep coming across a plethora of new technical terms everyday.
One such term I came across recently is ‘CRUD’. If you already know what it is, this post is not for you!!
7
Oct
2009
Query on the Long Column or Field
A typical problem in any EAI project. Others too!!
One of the most common ways of building custom Error Handling or Logging mechanisms include dumping huge messages and XMLs in the database for future reference. It works as an excellent logging mechanism which can be pulled out in case something in the system fails.
4
Sep
2009
Siebel – Installer hangs midway
In my website statistics, I see somebody trying to find a solution to the above problem. The Siebel Installer starts, when you start an installation. However, it doesn’t complete and it hangs somewhere in the midway. I write this just when I was having the exact same problem today (I hope that explains the smiley which opens this post!).
19
Aug
2009
Siebel – Case Insensitivity (CIAI) Wizard
CIAI stands for Case Insensitive and Accent Insensitive in Siebel. This can be called the first post on GeeksBlogging@dotCOM on Siebel 8 New Features.
I had discussed about some traditional methods of controlling Case Sensitivity in Siebel queries. However, in version 8.0, Siebel has introduced a new feature of the CIAI Wizard which goes a step further in controlling this functionality. This has been carried forward in Siebel 8.1 albeit with some minor modifications.
18
Aug
2009
Oracle VM Templates for Siebel CRM
In a normal case, to set up a Siebel CRM solution on a server, we would first need to separately set up the Server Operating System, Database Server and Siebel CRM. This could be quite a task and could take substantial time and resources. Why not follow the easy way out?
17
Aug
2009
Siebel – Run Case Insensitive queries
This is a nice tip I ran across. All the Siebel Developers use Siebel Tools and Siebel Web Client extensively. And, each one of us run over a hundred queries daily. However, when querying for some data, for eg. a Business Service Name in Tools, Siebel generally demands we enter the correct case. To streamline the process and improve productivity, I continuously keep making minor modifications in my environment settings.
17
Aug
2009
15
Aug
2009
14
Aug
2009
Siebel – Symbolic Strings – Change default ‘X_’
This is a smaill tip I was working on, which got me interested in Symbolic Strings all of a sudden. We have already discussed previously about the Symbolic Strings
Siebel – Symbolic Strings
Siebel – Symbolic Strings – Usage
13
Aug
2009
Siebel – Symbolic Strings – Usage
Symbolic Strings appear directly in Siebel Tools’ Object Explorer, an independent object. It has a child object of Symbolic String Locale, where you may define the individual translations for all the different languages in use in your project.
In case it is not visible directly, navigate to View -> Options -> Object Explorer tab, and enable the Symbolic Strings object if not already visible.
12
Aug
2009
Siebel – Left, Right and from the Middle
Extracting a sub string from a lengthy string in Siebel. What is the best solution you can think up for this typical problem? I know, I know, you and you colleagues have done this thousands of times before. But, have you ever successfully done it without using a single line of scripting?!!
Now, it becomes interesting!
