Hello, does anyone have a reference for the various requests that the BDDE server accepts? I have the pdf describing the various data fields that are available, but I was wondering if somebody had a list with the various topics such as TKR, HIST, NEWS, etcetera. I can piece some if it together from the Reuters Tools menu in Excel, but a real reference guide would be invaluable.

The specific reason I'm asking, is that I'd like to request some historical time and sales data from the middle of the day. The Excel history command in the Reuters Tools menu only permits requests starting from the end of the day, and only permits 1024 data rows. Naturally, there are lots of symbols with more rows than that (eg IBM). So it isn't possible, for example, to get time and sales data for IBM going from 12:00 pm to 12:10 pm.

I figure there should be some way of specifying the near and far times in addition to the near and far dates in the DDE request. Does anybody know what it is?

Thanks,
-Russ