All About Siebel: Siebel Tools How To - Have Mutiple Local database Instances?

This article is a step by step guide to have mutiple local database instances on the same system.
Below mentioned points might be the reason why you would want to do that

You are working on mutilple projects and they all have repository named 'Siebel Repository'. You want to work on both repositories simultaneously.
You share your system and you want the changes made by other developer to be on a different instance rather than yours.
You have a server that can be accessed by mutiple people who work on it simultaneously

So, How do you do that? Here is the answer

Make a copy of your siebel local database (that is file named sse_data.dbf) rename it to be anything such as sse_data_copy.dbf
Make a copy your tools.cfg file (which should be residing in siebel install dir\tools\bin\enu\) and rename it to such as tool_copy.cfg
Open the tools_copy.cfg file scroll down to section [Local]
Find parameter named Connect String and change the value to reflect the name and path of you newly created copy of your dbf file.

for example

Previous Value : C:\PROGRA~1\Siebel\7.8\Tools\local\sse_data.dbf -q -m -x NONE -gp 4096 -c256m -ch256m -ch256m

New Value : C:\PROGRA~1\Siebel\7.8\Tools\local\sse_data_copy.dbf -q -m -x NONE -gp 4096 -c256m -ch256m -ch256m

you can change the other parameters also. To learn more about other parameters please read my post Siebel CRM - Configuration File (cfg) Disected and Explained.

Change the parameter named DockRepositoryName to different name if you don't want to have repository of your newly created instance to be Siebel Repository.
Create a copy of your shortcut which you use to access your siebel tools instance.
Right Click on the newly created instance and choose properties from the context menu
In the Target field of the newly opened window scroll to the point where it mentions the name of the cfg file which should be tools.cfg
Rename just the name of the file to tools_copy.cfg (the name of the copy of the cfg file you made)

for example

Orignal Value : "C:\Program Files\Siebel\7.8\Tools\BIN\siebdev.exe" /c "C:\PROGRA~1\Siebel\7.8\Tools\bin\enu\tools.cfg"

New Value : "C:\Program Files\Siebel\7.8\Tools\BIN\siebdev.exe" /c "C:\PROGRA~1\Siebel\7.8\Tools\bin\enu\tools_copy.cfg"

And you are done. Now you have two Siebel tools instances on the same system.

This solution will not work if :

If you mutiple users work on the system at same time. (For example a terminal server where multiple users can login and work simultenously)
If you want to Check in your changes to a different server

In next article we will discuss about additional changes that can be done to overcome this problem.

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