Talend - System env variables not reflecting without restart

Question

I'm using system environment variables to parameterise jobs in talend, But every time I change any value, without restarting talend I'm not able to get the changes reflected. Is there any workaround? I don't want to use Context groups or Implicit Context load. I'm using Talend Open Studio free edition. Is this any different in Enterprise version?

Answer 1

This has to do with Talend is handling environment variables. Talend is reading the environment variables at startup and stores them. There is a good answer here which explains this behavior in more detail regarding Java (Talend is build on Java).

There are also some tricks listed how to get the variables depending on your OS.