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Re: Definition of Garbled message as per FIXT.1.1
Mahesh Kumaraguru <>
17 Jan 2010 9:53PM ET

Lisa,

I misunderstood your post that errata was for ApplVerID (1128) only and not for SenderCompID (49) and TargetCompID (56) which I assumed were already included in the extended tag ordering. Thanks for clarifying.

Regards,
K. Mahesh

> Mahesh,
>
> My post you referenced confirmed that we were discussing it and if it
> was ratified it would have been as noted in that post and published as
> an errata.
>
> That said, even though at the time we were close to agreement (thus the
> post prior to the ratification), but there was some last minute push
> back - strong enough push back that the errata was never ratified by
> the GTC Gov.
>
> Lisa
>
>
> > Jim,
> >
> > I thought the order given in FIXT Header Mapping Table on Page 31 of
> > 66 is correct. This was confirmed by Lisa Taikitsadaporn of Brook Path
> > Partners at
> >
> > http://fixprotocol.org/discuss/read/090515da
> >
> > Regards,
> > K. Mahesh
> >
> > > Mahesh, I don't believe that we reached this consensus on FIXT.1.1
> > > in terms of extending the tag order to SenderCompID, TargetCompID
> > > and ApplVerID. There was considerable push back.
> > >
> > >
> > > > In FIX_Transport_1.1.pdf page 38 of 66 (March 2008) defines a
> > > > Garbled message as
> > > >
> > > > [start quote]
> > > >
> > > > BeginString (tag #8) is not the first tag in a message or is not
> > > > of the format 8=FIXT.n.m.
> > > >
> > > > BodyLength (tag #9) is not the second tag in a message or does not
> > > > contain the correct byte count.
> > > >
> > > > MsgType (tag #35) is not the third tag in a message.
> > > >
> > > > Checksum (tag #10) is not the last tag or contains an incorrect
> > > > value.
> > > >
> > > > [End quote]
> > > >
> > > > The following additions should be made to the above list of
> > > > definitions of a garbled message
> > > >
> > > > SenderCompID (tag #49) is not the fourth tag in a message.
> > > >
> > > > TargetCompID (tag #56) is not the fifth tag in a message.
> > > >
> > > > ApplVerID (tag #1128) if present in message is not the sixth tag
> > > > in a message.
> > > >
> > > > Non numeric Tag is present in the message, for example ^X=123^
> > > >
> > > > (Request :- If this is not the correct forum for discussing
> > > > FIX_Transport_1.1.pdf, please let me know the correct forum)
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > K. Mahesh


Definition of Garbled message as per FIXT.1.1
Mahesh Kumaraguru   20 Apr 2009 12:25PM ET
Re: Definition of Garbled message as per FIXT.1.1
Mahesh Kumaraguru   2 May 2009 12:53PM ET
Re: Definition of Garbled message as per FIXT.1.1
Mahesh Kumaraguru   16 Jan 2010 3:00PM ET
Re: Definition of Garbled message as per FIXT.1.1
Jim Northey / The LaSalle Technology Group   16 Jan 2010 3:22PM ET
Re: Definition of Garbled message as per FIXT.1.1
Mahesh Kumaraguru   17 Jan 2010 5:57AM ET
Re: Definition of Garbled message as per FIXT.1.1
Lisa Taikitsadaporn / Brook Path Partners, Inc.   17 Jan 2010 9:36PM ET
Re: Definition of Garbled message as per FIXT.1.1
Mahesh Kumaraguru   17 Jan 2010 9:53PM ET
Re: Definition of Garbled message as per FIXT.1.1
Clive Browning / Rapid Addition Ltd   18 Jan 2010 5:13AM ET
Tag ordering in FIXT.1.1 messages
Mahesh Kumaraguru   18 Jan 2010 10:54PM ET