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The Oracle SQL Developer contains a usage tracking module. When you start the application the first time, it asks you whether you want to sent statistics to oracle or not. In a Windows Terminal Server hosted app I don't let the customers decide to sent or not. I found out, that the preference could be preset by a flag in the user home.

File: %APPDATA%\SQL Developer\system<app version>\o.sqldeveloper\product-preferences.xml

<hash n="oracle.ideimpl.usages.UsagesPrefs">
    <value n="track-usages" v="false"/>
</hash>

My question: Is there an easier way to enforce that flag, instead of having a script around the application, that checks the existence of the preferences file and modifies the flag if necessary?

Nachtgold
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I found some config in ../sqldeveloper/sqldeveloper/ide/sqldeveloper.conf:

AddVMOption -Dide.update.usage.servers=

If you set this to some nonexistent website, the tracking stats won't get to Oracle (which is what you want, i presume).

AddVMOption -Dide.update.usage.servers=http://whateversomewebsiteitdoesntmatter.com:12345

There could/should be some flag to unset the checkmark for allow-usage-tracking, maybe.

You can set the preferences system-wide if you configure the environment variable IDE_USER_DIR on the system.

Per default, all user-settings are stored in %APPDATA%.

See the corresponding files and settings in the docs:

The user-related information is stored in or under the IDE_USER_DIR environment variable location, if defined; otherwise as indicated in the following table, which shows the typical default locations (under a directory or in a file) for specific types of resources on different operating systems. (Note the period in the name of any directory named .sqldeveloper.)

Lenniey
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