IDL_IDLBridge initialization error: "% Unable to start IDL_IDLBRIDGE worker process: OPS Initialization failed. Verify that 'idl_opserver.exe' exists in the IDL bin directory."

PROBLEM:

When attempting to create/start an IDL-IDL Bridge instance, an error like the following may occur if the IDL user does not have permission to write to the output log file destination. For exaqmple:

IDL> oidl = idl_idlbridge(output='C:\Program Files\Harris\idlbridge.log')
% Unable to start IDL_IDLBRIDGE worker process: OPS Initialization failed.  
   Verify that 'idl_opserver.exe' exists in the IDL bin directory..
% Execution halted at: $MAIN$

 

SOLUTION:

The solution to this problem is to change the OUTPUT destination to a writeable file location, or enable write permissions to the destination.

Written by JU 9/15/2022
IDL-69907