Journal file location, all users

[cvaughan]

Can anyone advise on how to change the journal file location for all users of a network installation of SPSS 21 running on Windows Server 2008 R2? Have so far failed to locate an appropriate registry key.

Many thanks.

[Jignesh Sutar]

If you navigate to below path, you'll find relevant files ("sess_journal_file" in your case)

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\JavaSoft\Prefs\com\ibm\/S/P/S/S\/Statistics\22.0\ui\options\file_locations

I got to this path by searching "statistics.jnl" in regedit which I obtained from SPSS "Edit-->Options-->File Locations-->Journal File"

[David Marso]

Could that not possibly end up with different users overwriting/intermingling one another's session journals?
Maybe proceed with caution before implementing this master plan.
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cvaughan wrote

Can anyone advise on how to change the journal file location for all users of a network installation of SPSS 21 running on Windows Server 2008 R2? Have so far failed to locate an appropriate registry key.

Many thanks.

[Jon K Peck]

The journal is kept on the client system, so I think this setting will be in the Client registry.  On my system, this is the key for V21.

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-2065661871-858326956-638741381-1051\Software\JavaSoft\Prefs\com\ibm\/S/P/S/S\/Statistics\21.0\ui\options\file_locations.

You would need to run a Registry script on each Client system.




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Can anyone advise on how to change the journal file location for all users of
a network installation of SPSS 21 running on Windows Server 2008 R2? Have so
far failed to locate an appropriate registry key.

Many thanks.



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[cvaughan]

Thank you very much Jon. I can't actually locate this registry key A registry search for JavaSoft does produce a couple of results but none with the relevant sub-entries. The server on which SPSS is installed also run Citrix XenApp 6.5 and users run SPSS via a remote Citrix connection to the server. So, in effect, the server is a client. Perhaps I just need to carry on searching.

[cvaughan]

Thanks very much Jignesh. Strangely, this registry location doesn't exist on the system on which SPSS is installed and a search for statistic.jnl produces nothing.

[Rick Oliver-3]

I'm not sure if this is relevant, but the journal file only exists on the client version. There is no journal file on the server version; so you probably won't find a registry entry for the journal file on the server machine.

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Thanks very much Jignesh. Strangely, this registry location doesn't exist on
the system on which SPSS is installed and a search for statistic.jnl
produces nothing.



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[cvaughan]

Hi Rick. Thank you. The journal file does appear to exist. It's path for each user in the SPSS Options is given as User\DocumentsSPSSInc\IBMStatistics\statistics.jnl and, sure enough there are statistics.jnl files in the relevant locations.