blp - Bloomberg V3 communications server connection

Syntax

Description

c = blp makes a connection to the local Bloomberg V3 communications server. You must have a Bloomberg software license for the host on which the Datafeed Toolbox and MATLAB software are running.

c = blp(P,IP,etimeout) makes a connection to the local Bloomberg communications server. P is the port number and IP is the IP address of the local machine. etimeout is the time out value (in milliseconds), specifying how long the connection is attempted before timing out if the connection cannot be made.

Note   If you have not used the blp function before, you will need to add the file blpapi3.jar to the MATLAB Java classpath. Use the javaaddpath function or edit your classpath.txt file. For more information, see Using Java Libraries from MATLAB.

Examples

Establish a connection, c, to a Bloomberg data server:

c = blp

Establish a connection using the default port of 8194 and 'localhost' as the IP address, with a timeout value of 10 seconds.

c = blp([],[],10000)

See Also

blp.category | blp.close | blp.fieldinfo | blp.fieldsearch | blp.getdata | blp.history | blp.realtime | blp.timeseries

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