Why am I unable to use Bloomberg datafeed in 64-bit MATLAB in Datafeed Toolbox 3.2 (R2008b)?

I am not able to use Bloomberg in the Datafeed toolbox on a 64-bit machine. I can connect to Yahoo.

The following command:

Connect = bloomberg

...results in the error:

??? Undefined function or variable 'bloomberg'.

The following command:

which -all bloomberg

...shows the output:

 $MATLABROOT\toolbox\datafeed\datafeed\bloomberg.m

The @bloomberg folder is not available.

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

This enhancement has been incorporated in Release 2010a (R2010a). For previous product releases, read below for any possible workarounds:

The Bloomberg feed in the Datafeed Toolbox is only available in the 32-bit version of MATLAB 7.7 (R2008b) on Windows platforms. This is due to the fact that we support the Bloomberg C API and there are no 64-bit drivers from Bloomberg.

To work around this issue, you can run a 32-bit version of MATLAB on your 64-bit Windows in order to interface with the 32-bit Bloomberg drivers.

As of MATLAB 7.10 (R2010a), the Bloomberg feed is available on 64-bit Windows machines using the new BLP class, which supports the Bloomberg V3 interface. For additional information on updating your code to use this class, refer to the "Datafeed Toolbox" release notes:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/datafeed/release-notes.html