Datafeed Toolbox™

About Data Servers and Data Service Providers

Supported Data Service Providers

This toolbox supports connections to financial data servers that the following corporations provide:

• Bloomberg L.P. (http://www.bloomberg.com)

• FactSet Research Systems, Inc. (http://www.factset.com)

• Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) (http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/)

• Haver Analytics (http://www.haver.com)

• Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data (http://www.interactivedata-prd.com/)

• Kx Systems, Inc. (http://www.kx.com)

• Reuters (http://about.reuters.com/)

• Thomson http://www.thomson.com)

• Yahoo!, Inc. (http://finance.yahoo.com)

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Data Server Connection Requirements

To connect to some of these data servers, additional requirements apply.

Additional Software Requirements

The following data service providers require you to install proprietary software on your PC:

• Bloomberg

  Note   You must have a Bloomberg® software license for the host on which the Datafeed Toolbox™ and MATLAB® software are running.

• Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data's RemotePlus™

• Haver Analytics

• Kx Systems. Inc.

• Reuters

You must have a valid license for required client software on your machine. If you do not, the following error message appears when you try to connect to a data server:

Invalid MEX-file

For more information about how to obtain required software, contact your data server sales representative.

Proxy Information Requirements

The following data service providers may require you to specify a proxy host and proxy port:

• FactSet

• Federal Reserve Economic Data

• Thomson

• Yahoo!

For information on how to specify these settings, see Internet Connection and Fonts for Web Browser — Web Preferences in the MATLAB documentation.

FactSet^® Data Service Requirements

You need a license to use FactSet^® FAST technology. For more information, see the FactSet Web site at http://www.factset.com.

Reuters^® Data Service Requirements

Configuring Reuters^® Connections Using Reuters^® Configuration Editor.   You must use the Reuters^® Configuration Editor to configure your connections as follows:

1. In a DOS prompt, set your CLASSPATH environment variable:

   set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%; ...
   $MATLAB/toolbox/datafeed/datafeed/config_editor.jar
   

2. Navigate to the Datafeed Toolbox directory:

   cd %MATLAB%\toolbox\datafeed\datafeed

3. Enter the following command to run the Reuters Configuration Editor:

   starteditor
   

4. Load the sample configuration file.

   1. Click File > Import > File.

   2. Select the file %MATLAB%\toolbox\datafeed\datafeed\sampleconfig.xml.

5. Modify sampleconfig.xml based on the site-specific settings that you obtain from Reuters.

6. Define a namespace, a connection, and a session associated with the connection. The following example adds the session remoteSession with the namespace MyNS to the connection list for the connection remoteConnection.

   

   

7. If you are not DACS enabled, disable DACS.

   1. Add the following to your connection configuration:

      dacs_CbeEnabled=false
      dacs_SbePubEnabled=false
      dacs_SbeSubEnabled=false

   2. If you are running an SSL connection, add the following to your connection configuration:

      dacs_GenerateLocks=false

For more information, see the reuters function reference page.

Troubleshooting Issues with Reuters^® Configuration Editor.   These errors occur when you attempt to use the Reuters Configuration Editor to configure connections on a machine on which an XML Parser is not installed.

java com.reuters.rfa.tools.config.editor.ConfigEditor
org.xml.sax.SAXException: System property 
org.xml.sax.driver not specified
at org.xml.sax.helpers.XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader(Unknown
Source)  
at com.reuters.rfa.tools.config.editor.rfaConfigRuleDB.rfaConfi
gRuleDB.java:56)  
at com.reuters.rfa.tools.config.editor.ConfigEditor.init
(ConfigEditor.java:86)  
at (com.reuters.rfa.tools.config.editor.ConfigEditor.
(ConfigEditor.java:61) at
com.reuters.rfa.tools.config.editor.ConfigEditor.main
(ConfigEditor.java:1303)

To address this problem, download an XML parser file, and then include a path to this file in your CLASSPATH environment variable.

The following example shows how to set your CLASSPATH environment variable to include the XML parser file C:\xerces.jar (downloaded from http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-j/index.html):

set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;...
		matlabroot\toolbox\datafeed\datafeed\config_editor.jar;...
		c:\xerces.jar

Thomson^® Data Service Requirements

You need the following to connect to Thomson^® data servers:

• A license for Thomson^® DataWorks^®.

• To connect to the Thomson^® Datastream^® API from the Web, you need a user name, password, and URL provided by Thomson.

For more information, see the Thomson Web site at http://www.thomson.com.

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