Accessing the Test Environment

Bloomberg provides a test environment for clients to build and test their strategies using the EMSX API.

This is accomplished by referencing //blp/emapisvc_beta as the service name in your program. This command will allow your service to redirect all EMSX API requests and subscriptions to the test environment.

Once the client has thoroughly tested the custom-built strategies, they can access the production environment by changing the service name from //blp/emapisvc_beta to //blp/emapisvc.

Inside the Bloomberg Terminal type UAT ON <GO>.This command allows the particular terminal window and launchpad to log into the beta environment. Please note, when a user is remote into the beta environment it only affects that particular terminal window and the other Bloomberg panels will not be affected by the UAT ON <GO> command.

To check which environment your current view is in, type VSAT <GO> inside the Bloomberg terminal.

To get back to production type UAT OFF <GO>. Please note that the testing environment in Beta will not operate in the exact same way as the production environment. Also, please note that the beta environment is a lot slower than the production environment and no one should perform any volume or load testing in the beta environment.

API Demo Tool

API Demo Tool is a handy tool while developing on any Bloomberg API services. The API Demo Tool provides real-time schema viewing tool among other handy tools that can be leveraged during the initial development.

The API Demo Tool can be downloaded from the Bloomberg terminal along with other generic Bloomberg API code samples.

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