How To
Summary
You create a laboratory environment for your end users. This environment could be physical or virtual. You installed IBM SPSS Statistics 28.0 interactively. Each time users launch Statistics, they do so from a "fresh" environment with no user preferences and the default Activation Type set to "UNKNOWN". Users are constantly prompted to choose their licensing type, whereas you would prefer the Statistics instance default to On-Prem licensing and make use of your SPSS Statistics Concurrent License Manager and Tools.
Objective
You would like to administratively set the Activation Type at the client such that users are never prompted for it upon launch.
Steps
Do a "Push" or "Silent" install first:
- The instructions for performing a "Push" install (on Microsoft Windows) or a "Silent" install (on macOS) appropriately sets your Activation Type for all subsequent launches. See the Concurrent_License_Administrator_Guide.pdf for detailed instructions.
- This step installs IBM SPSS Statistics and configures it for use with Concurrent User (On-Prem) licensing. It properly configures the "C:\Program Files\IBM\SPSS Statistics\commutelicense.ini" file.
- Do not launch the product yet.
- This step installs IBM SPSS Statistics and configures it for use with Concurrent User (On-Prem) licensing. It properly configures the "C:\Program Files\IBM\SPSS Statistics\commutelicense.ini" file.
- Do not launch the product yet.
The next step ensures that a fresh boot of the VDI (where no user preferences exist) will create the proper user preferences in the Windows registry.
To accomplish this task on Microsoft Windows after install:
1) Locate the "C:\Program Files\IBM\SPSS Statistics\.defaultsettings.ini" file on your SPSS Statistics image.
1) Locate the "C:\Program Files\IBM\SPSS Statistics\.defaultsettings.ini" file on your SPSS Statistics image.
2) Edit this file changing the 'ACTIVATE_TYPE' to 'ONPREM':
[Activation Type]
ACTIVATE_TYPE=ONPREM
3) If any exist, delete the "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Prefs\com\ibm\/S/P/S/S\/Statistics\/Activate/Type" registry key.
4) On subsequent launch this key is re-created with the new default "ONPREM" and users are not prompted to make a choice.
Create and deploy your VDI image from this state:
- No SPSS Statistics user preferences in the Windows Registry yet
- '.defaultsetting.ini' edited to point to ACTIVATION_TYPE=ONPREM
To accomplish this task on macOS after install:
1) Make the same edits to the file here "/Applications/IBM SPSS Statistics/Resources/Configuration/.defaultsetting.ini"
2) Reset the user defaults by deleting the 'com.ibm.spss.plist'
Example: (where "Fred" is the executing user name)
"sudo rm -fR ~/Library/Preferences/com.ibm.spss.plist"
"sudo killall -u Fred cfprefsd"
"sudo killall -u Fred cfprefsd"
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