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Re: Instrument data in Market data Incremental update
Greg Maynard / International Securities Exchange
5 May 2008 11:20AM ET

> Per FIX specs Instrument (e.g. Symbol – tag 55) in Market data
> Incremental update is required if MDUpdateAction – 279 value “new”. In
> order to save network bandwidth, MD Incremental Update with
> MDUpdateAction – 279 values “Change” and “Delete” refer to MDReqID – 262
> and MDEntryID – 278 on which the change or delete must be applied
> respectively. As result Instrument data is not required. My question is
> how many have run across clients and a need to deviated from this and
> still provide Symbol for MDUpdateAction – 279 values “Change” and
> “Delete”? On one hand this will reduce on-boarding time, however
> introduces extra data and has a potential to consume extra network
> bandwidth. i.e. You want to help clients, however do not want to cause
> issues down the road. I thank you in advance. Natan

At ISE we have the full detail of the instrument in all messages. We found that our customers were coding to this message for the first time and were quite flexible. Some of our customers asked if we could remove the instrument data from the incremental messages to make it more efficient. We are ain about to implement this change into production, but so far it has been well recieved and will reduce the bandwidth significantly.


Instrument data in Market data Incremental update
Natan Kugel / eSpeed   3 May 2008 8:07AM ET
Re: Instrument data in Market data Incremental update
Greg Maynard / International Securities Exchange   5 May 2008 11:20AM ET
Re: Instrument data in Market data Incremental update
Matt Simpson / CME Group   5 May 2008 12:59PM ET