Siebel EIM Process – Running EIM Process Using Command Line

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Few days back, one of my dear friend and old colleague asked me that how to run EIM Process from command line? Then I realized, being a blogger I should not ignore any topic just because I know it or I feel like this is small thing and everyone must know it. So this post is dedicated to my dear friend …. J

EIM stands for Enterprise Integration Manager; it’s a server component under EAI component group. We use EIM to transfer data between the Siebel database and other data sources. There are four methods provided in EIM import, export, update, and delete. This is advisable that if you have huge data to perform any of the operation given above then use EIM.

To accomplish the data exchange between the DBs, there is intermediary tables provide in Siebel known as EIM tables or interface tables. EIM tables act like a staging area between the DBs. To load the data into Siebel tables which are known as Base table, data must go through the EIM tables. So we can break this load of data into two parts:

Ø  Load data into EIM Tables.

Ø  Run EIM Process to load data from EIM table to Base Table.

So now we now only second part of the process involves the functionality of Siebel EIM. This is the time when we run Siebel IFB files to load data from EIM tables to Base tables.

We can run EIM Process using either the command-line interface or the GUI.

Below is the command to initiate an EIM Process.

Using Command Line:

$SVRMGR_PATH/srvrmgr /g $SBL_GS /s $SBL_SRVR /e $SBL_ES /u $SBL_USER /p $SBL_PWD /c "run task for component eim server $SBL_SRVR with config=$IFB_FILE_NAME , ErrorFlags=1,TraceFlags=3,SqlFlags=8"

In our next post “Siebel EIM – Running EIM Process Part II” will learn about running EIM process using GUI.

Your comments and suggestions are always welcome… Happy Siebeling… J