Automatic reconnect on TWS

[pranas]

Dear Support,

The IB TWS application is annoyingly logging off 1 per calendar day.

Could you please share set-up enabling me to reconnect to IB TWS automatically (or disable automatic log-off)?

I am considering automated trading without checking trading environment every day (and reconnect manually). Please share how other your clients do that.

Thanks for practical advices

[NinjaTrader_Kyle]

Hello,

Thank you for your post.

I will forward your suggestion that we develop an automated reconnection solution to our development staff for further consideration.

Thank you for your feedback!

[balancenv]

search for 'ib gateway' on this forum and you'll find a good solution.

[pranas]

search for 'ib gateway' on this forum and you'll find a good solution.

Thanks. Have you personally tried it? Not sure if you are talking about the same gateway...

I found IB Gateway instructions: https://www.interactivebrokers.com/e...hp%3Fos%3Dunix

<MN>@<SN>:~/IB/IBJts$ java -cp jts.jar:total.2013.jar -Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true -Xmx512M ibgateway.GWClient .
09:13:39:807 JTS-Main: dayInit: new values: dayOfTheWeek: 7 (Sat), YYYYMMofToday: 201402, YYYYMMDDofToday: 20140215
09:13:40:764 JTS-Main: getFileFromUrl: dest=<MH>/IB/IBJts/locales.jar empty sourceSize=65605
09:13:41:893 JTS-Main: Build 936.9p, Feb 11, 2014 1:27:55 PM
09:13:42:406 AWT-EventQueue-3: Error
java.awt.HeadlessException
at java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment.checkHeadless(Graphic sEnvironment.java:173)
at java.awt.Window.<init>(Window.java:546)
at java.awt.Frame.<init>(Frame.java:419)
at javax.swing.JFrame.<init>(JFrame.java:218)
at twslaunch.jclient.tc.<init>(tc.java:383)
at ibgateway.dc.<init>(Unknown Source)
at ibgateway.eb.run(Unknown Source)
at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(Invocation Event.java:226)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.j ava:673)
at java.awt.EventQueue.access$300(EventQueue.java:96)
at java.awt.EventQueue$2.run(EventQueue.java:634)
at java.awt.EventQueue$2.run(EventQueue.java:632)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.security.AccessControlContext$1.doIntersectio nPrivilege(AccessControlContext.java:108)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java: 643)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilter s(EventDispatchThread.java:275)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(E ventDispatchThread.java:200)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarch y(EventDispatchThread.java:190)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispa tchThread.java:185)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispa tchThread.java:177)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThre ad.java:138)[/CODE]

Just created Windows shortcut:
Command:
C:\Windows\System32\javaw.exe -cp jts.jar;total.2012.jar -Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true -Dswing.boldMetal=false -Dsun.locale.formatasdefault=true -Xmx1024M -XX:MaxPermSize=256M ibgateway.GWClient C:\Jts

It appears IB Gateway is just another Swing application ... and can not be started easy as regular Unix (or Windows) service.

Start in:
C:\Jts

Has some one experience to share with head-less (without or virtual GUI) IB Gateway operation on Linux?