blpapi

Bloomberg API request timing out

Having set up a ReferenceDataRequest I send it along to an EventQueue Service refdata = _session.GetService("//blp/refdata"); Request request = refdata.CreateRequest("ReferenceDataRequest"); /* append the appropriate symbol and field data to the request */ EventQueue eventQueue = new EventQueue(); Guid guid = Guid.NewGuid(); Correlati...

Starting bbcomm in Java v3 Bloomberg API

When I use the Java Bloomber V3 API it usually works. However, sometimes, especially after a reboot, bbcomm.exe is not running in the background. I can start it manually by running blp.exe, but I wondered if there was a way of doing this via the API? I'm still waiting on Help-Help ... ...