If I Could Ask for Just One Thing in Siebel What Would it Be?

Hi All,
Think this is too interesting. A while back I was on a call with Oracle and was asked what one thing I would ask for if I could ask for anything in Siebel. At that time I drew a blank I could not think of an answer. I have two good ones now and want to see if this makes sense.
First – make the quality of Siebel releases even better than they are today. The quality of Siebel is very good but I would like to see it made even better. I wonder if part of this solution might be to not have so many code braches so more focus could be put on just one version. E.g. Instead of 8.0.0.0, 8.0.0.1 and 8.0.0.2 all being worked why not just put all the effort into 8.0.0.3 and making it super stable? Just an idea but improved release quality is wish #1.
Second – when the Siebel OM encounters an exception (e.g. address violation) don’t terminate the whole process and all the other threads (users) running. TOAD does this so we know it is possible. If TOAD encounters an address violation it pops up a message and allows me to report it back to their technical support but does not crash. We would need to discuss what should happen in Siebel but terminating the whole process and all the running users is painful for Siebel customers.
Take care,
R
Robert Ponder
Lead Architect and Director
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I was a bit unpleasantly surprised the automatic restart of the client after a compile was broken in Siebel 8. This was announced in 7.x as a productivity improvement for the Siebel developers, so I would say this should be part of the test scenarios for Siebel. But thanks for the fixpack.
One thing I noticed on my current project is that it would be nice to have a conditional expression on the State Model level itself. That way it is much easier to manage a State Model for a limited set. Otherwise you have to create all possible State Changes and put conditions on them.
Seeing that Runtime Events can work with conditions on two levels, I would see no significant hurdles to implement it for State Model.
And one little big annoyance is that you can't login with enter for the customer facing applications. Might not look like a big issue, but almost all web apps I use allow you to use enter after user and password. And don't forget you are ruining the first impression.
To end on a more positive note, I'm quite happy with Siebel 8.0 from a developer point of view. Keep up the good work and let's see how long I can stay a Siebel consultant. ;-)

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