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 ...

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