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Pricing Source override in BDH not working? #66
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It's helpful in theses cases to set
So it appears that this override is not valid. I would either looks at FLDS in the terminal to try and find what the appropriate override is or discuss with the help desk since this is Bloomberg |
Ok .Thank you. Bloomberg Support weren't very helpful. BLOOMBERG HELP DESK : Unfortunately the Help Desk doesn't provide syntax support or creation for blpapi. I don't see any overrides in FLDS, but the way I tried is how Excel manages it. I thought it would work as well. Well, thank you for your time. I'll post a solution later if I come up with one. |
The override being ignored is a feature / antifeature of the underlying blpapi Bloomberg API. If you set an override value which is not applicable (the actual value not the override field) then it just ignores the override. For something similar to BDP take a look at
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Are you saying that 'BFUS' is not valid or that 'PRICING_SOURCE' is not valid for 'PX_LAST'? I know for certain that 'BFUS' is a valid source. I'll see if I can find a workaround with the second function. |
Best solution so far is to change the values in the terminal PCS menu. This forces you to use the same pricing source for all securities, but it's a start. |
I am saying that when you make a Historical request without override
Historical data request with override
whereas it does seem to affect the pricing when you make a Reference data without override
Reference data with override
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Hi, Matt.
I have tried the following with many variations (i.e. PCS, PricingSource, pricingsource) and it doesn't seem to work. Any clues?
I suspect the problem is in the ovrds field because when I run it without it, it works smoothly.
The error I get is:
Thanks
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