TIBCO JasperReports® Server installer's usage of Windows Registry (Regedit)

Issue Description

The TIBCO JasperReports^® Server WAR installer will call Regedit.exe during install, and some customers are curious why it is called and how to remove it's usage

Resolution

We read the HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelInternational for the sake of getting the current day and time in the format that is specific for your OS locale, we use that value to write the day and time into the filename of the install log.  The actual cmds are in date.bat, time.bat which are called by buildomaticbindo-js-setup.bat

buildomatic\bin\date.bat(line 16): START /W REGEDIT /E %TEMP%.\_TEMP.REG "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International"

buildomatic\bin\time.bat(line 19): START /W REGEDIT /E "%Temp%.\_TimeTemp.reg" "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International"

/E just exports a key's value to a file, is this case a temp file, and the temp file is referenced for a variable that provides the internationalized  naming of the log file.

If needed you can customize the scripts, the result is that your log's file name might not be formatted to your system's exact day time and format.

Ref. Case 01603192