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> I've communicated this to the GTC some months back, but as firms convert > to 4.4 the question comes up again and again. In the new Confirmation > message there are two repeating groups marked "required' in the spec in > error: NoUnderlyings(711) and NoCapacities(862) are inappropriate or > understood respectively in most vanilla trades and should be treated as > "optional". I would like to rise this issue in light of best practices. NoUnderlyings (tag 711) and NoLegs (555) should be treated as optional. We have a choice of either specifying value zero to stay compliant or omit the field. The later means risking non compliance with FIX specs. Please comment. [You can unsubscribe from this discussion group by sending a message to mailto:[email protected]] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Financial Information eXchange" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/FIX-Protocol?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
