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Re: Length of ClOrdID - tag 11 - URGENT?
John Prewett / Lava Trading
24 May 2005 5:45PM ET> Daniel, You are right on that FIX does not put any limitation on the
> size. Altough it is wise to point out that FIX _implementations_ (I mean
> FIX egnines) may have limitations coming from a lousy implementation.
> (Such as using C strings, with hardcoded size...)
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> I am using 17 chars long ClOrdIDs with no problems.
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> -gabor
Our current systems are limited to a maximum of 40 characters for ClOrdIDs. We definitely have several customers who use more than 17 characters.
Most FIX engines or applications have hardcoded limitations on the size of many string fields such as ClOrdIDs, ExecIDs, CompIDs etc,. The ones that have the bigger size limits are putting less constraints upon their users/customers. Implementors, please be generous.
We even have one customer who forces us to use an 8 character ExecID which is a fairly unpleasant restriction and has caused us to create more software specifically to handle mapping from/to our longer ExecIDs to live with this restriction.
JohnP
Re: Length of ClOrdID - tag 11 - URGENT?
John Prewett / Lava Trading 24 May 2005 5:45PM ET
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