Can I launch TWS and PREVENT it from auto-updating to a newer version?
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They also know they're good and want to get paid tons and tons... then they eventually get fed up with the corporate politics and BS because, in addition to OCD, they suffer a little from autism. Finally, after they accumulate enough wealth they say f@%k it, I'm sick of fixing your s#!t for pennies on the dollar, how about we compete instead of cooperate?
I wouldn't want to be a manager of these folks, lol.
EDIT: I should have said savant syndrome here instead of autism.
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well, I've been having problems with the API since the change of exchange names over the weekend, but it turns out that 10.19.1f was the problem.
There were two problems:
(i) data for continuous contracts for those instruments which had a change of exchange name wasn't working; and
(ii) the API was returning exchange name of QBALGO for an instrument instead of returning ECBOT, leading to problems with data, and generally querying TWS with the API.
An "upgrade", if you can call it that, from "Stable" 10.19.1f to "Latest" 10.20.1c seems to have fixed both problems.
KH
Why on earth don't they publish a complete errata (change log) with each version?
That is the single most dumbfounding IB Fail there is. Their updates sometimes have change logs, most don't, many exist but aren't actually linked to from anywhere on the site, some only document like 5% of the changes that were actually made. It's honestly indefensible for them to be so bad at something they could have a 1st year analyst handle.
Yup it's the API that broke as well. Specifically order submission -- I can still pull market data into Excel, but the API order submission process is completely broken. Tried the Stable, Latest, and Beta versions that were bundled with this update; doesn't work for any of them. Still works on my secondary computer that for some reason didn't auto-update like my main one did.
That's actually a Q I still don't understand: I've never used the Offline installer, to the best of my knowledge...meaning I'd assume that on a given day ALL of my TWS installations would auto-update when there's a new version...but for some reason only 1 of the 3 PC's I tried today updated. But I'm concerned they'll do so tomorrow and I'll be completely out of luck. But is there a good reason one PC's installation may update on a given day while another may not? (Maybe there are mirror download sites that get updated at different intervals? That's all I could think of.)
Did you restart that one or has it been running the whole time? I think they only check for an update when they're first executed... not while they're running.
Maybe this is your opportunity to de-compile the jar, read the obfuscated java, and cripple the original binary so it will skip the auto-update?
Or maybe you have better things to do with your time, IDK.
Maybe this is your opportunity to de-compile the jar, read the obfuscated java, and cripple the original binary so it will skip the auto-update?
Or maybe you have better things to do with your time, IDK.
Did you restart that one or has it been running the whole time? I think they only check for an update when they're first executed... not while they're running.
Maybe this is your opportunity to de-compile the jar, read the obfuscated java, and cripple the original binary so it will skip the auto-update?
Or maybe you have better things to do with your time, IDK.
Yes, I shut my machines down every night, so they were booted up fresh, and only 1 of the 3 PC's I have auto-updated. Can't imagine why that would be. But dreading tomorrow when I worry the other one will as well.
Was hoping there was some easy way to...like, comment out a single line of code that checks for a new version and updates...but sounds like it's a black box and there's no way to tell it not to Update :/