Reply To: How to open up terminal in KX Developer

[jlucid]

Hi Jonathan,

Kx Dashboards is primary designed to allow you to establish connections to running q processes, like RDBs and HDBs, and run queries/functions against them using the datasource mechanism. You can use this to retrieve data or to send a signal to a process.

Now the function you execute on that process could include a system command, which you could use to trigger a script or start another process in the background. But to be honest it’s a messy solution, I’d try to keep kxdashboards purely for querying data if possible, otherwise it could get confusing and hard to maintain very quickly.

What exactly did you want to do?

https://code.kx.com/q/ref/system/

code.kx.com

system keyword executes a system command | Reference | kdb+ and q documentation - kdb+ and q documentation

system is a q keyword that executes a system command.