Aside from Siebel Tools, I’ve found a number of useful applications that I use day to day to make my Siebel life easier. I thought I’d share this with you in the hope it helps you too:
- Textpad – the text editor of choice. Whether it’s editing CFG files or perusing large log files, this is the tool to do it
- soapUI – an excellent free tool to test Web Services. Essential when developing integration components
- Microsoft Excel – now don’t laugh! Excel, connected to Siebel with the COM Data Control, can be a very powerful tool for simple data loading and automation
- Siebel logging tool – I always find the first thing I put on my desktop at a new client site is a VB / C# COM logging tool. This is usually just a simple application to trigger Application().LogOn and so on. It makes debugging the Developer Web Client so much easier
- Oracle SQL Developer – another free tool, this time from Oracle. An excellent SQL development environment with some useful administrative functions. I always recommend this over TOAD as it offers a very friendly environment but does not allow the user to wield too much power without understanding
- HxD – a really simple, and free, hex editing and viewing tool. I’ve found this really useful in the past for analysing Oracle database backup dumps for corruption
Feel free to comment and let us know what’s in your Siebel Toolbox.
Hi,
Can you please provide more details on the Siebel logging tool? Not sure what needs to be setup on the system.
Thanks
Hi Ravi!
I have a C# application that uses the Siebel COM Control to attach to a running Siebel Web Client instance. It can then enable and disable SQL logging so that you can trace what’s going on.
I’ll try to package it and post it up. You can essentially achieve the same thing using the /s switch on the dedicated Web Client – but it’s not quite so flexible.
Oli