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Settings storage location

Richard L King Member Profile All Messages By This Member #49907 开云体育 It used to be the case that you could specify, on the TWS login form, where to store the settings. In fact the field is still there on the dialog, but it’s disabled. ? A while ago I came across something that explained how to change that now, but I can’t remember what it said, and I can’t find it again. ? So can anyone please tell me how to manually set the settings location (and I don’t mean the File \| Save settings… menu entry or anything like that). ? Of course I realise that you can tell IBC where to save the settings, but I’m talking about manually logging on to TWS. ? Richard ?
闯ü谤驳别苍 Reinold All Messages By This Member #49908 I was unable to find a "Global Configuration" menu as well, Richard. So I took a quick look (on Linux) at the "tws" shell script that starts my TWS. At the end of the scrip, when it assembles the final Java VM command line, it adds the definition "-DjtsConfigDir=\${installer:jtsConfigDir}" that seems to hard-wire the settings folder. I added a "/lalala" for fun and that shows up right in the greyed out folder dialog on the login screen. So I guess you'd need to fiddle with the startup script to modify that folder. 闯ü谤驳别苍 PS. While looking into this I stumbled over the fact that tws.xml and ibg.xml are now encrypted as well. At least in 10.17
@lbilli All Messages By This Member #49909 FYI, here're some switches that can be passed to `tws` (at least on Linux): `tws -J-DinstallDir=path1 -J-DjtsConfigDir=path2 username=yourusername password=yourpassword` where: `path1`: folder containing the `/jars` directory, typically `~/Jts` `path2`: folder containing `jts.ini`, `launcher.log` and the user session directory `username` and `password` are self explanatory and useful for auto login. `path2` can also be passed alone as in: `tws path2 username=...` The `-J-Dxxx=...` switches are simply forwarded to the java command line as `-Dxxx=...` And yes, it'a bummer but IB recently switched to encrypted configuration files. Unencrypted files can still be read and exported from TWS under Diagnostics or, from 10.18, under Help->Troubleshooting
Richard L King Member Profile All Messages By This Member #49910 开云体育 Thanks very much for that. I remember now it was this -DjtsConfigDir Java command line option that I saw before, but I still don’t recall where. Actually I think where I saw it was in the tws.vmoptions file, which of course is equivalent to including it in the Java command line. Perhaps in some Docker file for IBC? ? Anyway, it does work on Windows as well. ? I noticed the encrypted configuration files yesterday as well. I really think IB have gone overboard on this.. ? ? toggle quoted message Show quoted text From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of noreply.section+dev@... Sent: 25 August 2022 21:36 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [TWS API] Settings storage location ? FYI, here're some switches that can be passed to `tws` (at least on Linux): `tws -J-DinstallDir=path1 -J-DjtsConfigDir=path2 username=yourusername password=yourpassword` where: `path1`: folder containing the `/jars` directory, typically `~/Jts` `path2`: folder containing `jts.ini`, `launcher.log` and the user session directory `username` and `password` are self explanatory and useful for auto login. `path2` can also be passed alone as in: `tws path2 username=...` The `-J-Dxxx=...` switches are simply forwarded to the java command line as `-Dxxx=...` And yes, it'a bummer but IB recently switched to encrypted configuration files. Unencrypted files can still be read and exported from TWS under Diagnostics or, from 10.18, under Help->Troubleshooting
Richard L King Member Profile All Messages By This Member #49911 开云体育 Thanks 闯ü谤驳别苍. In the particular case where I wanted to do this, there was no script involved, but setting the -J-DjtsConfigDir switch on the TWS executable on Windows did the trick, as did -DjtsConfigDir in tws.vmoptions. ? R. ? toggle quoted message Show quoted text From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of 闯ü谤驳别苍 Reinold via groups.io Sent: 25 August 2022 19:56 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [TWS API] Settings storage location ? I was unable to find a "Global Configuration" menu as well, Richard. So I took a quick look (on Linux) at the "tws" shell script that starts my TWS. At the end of the scrip, when it assembles the final Java VM command line, it adds the definition "-DjtsConfigDir=\${installer:jtsConfigDir}" that seems to hard-wire the settings folder. I added a "/lalala" for fun and that shows up right in the greyed out folder dialog on the login screen. So I guess you'd need to fiddle with the startup script to modify that folder. 闯ü谤驳别苍 PS. While looking into this I stumbled over the fact that tws.xml and ibg.xml are now encrypted as well. At least in 10.17

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