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Hi 

We are looking to offer DMA connectivity to our clients. We are in the process 
of analysing the requirements - from IT point of view  and trying to outline 
our project task. based on some initial analysis i am listing the details. I 
will appreciate if anyone with DMA implementation experience can provide some 
suggestions as they have experienced during their implementation.

1.We will have seperate FIX session for DMA order flow from client.
2. We will route the order to the exchange directly - or through a third party 
in case we cannot route the order directly to the exchange.
3. All message routed to exchange/3rd party - will be recorded in our OMS for 
monitoring purpose only. In case of an event where the client connection is 
down - and orders need to be cancelled on the exchange we will have the 
capability to cancel open orders from the OMS to the exchange.
4. We will also receive FIX drop copies of executions and may be the order 
messages, so we can book the trades into our Middle office system

Questions
1. In the situation where we need to manually cancel the open orders in the 
exchange - will it be sufficient to only have the information of OrderID - 
since if we are not directly routing the order to the exchange, then we do not 
know what was the final ClOrdID created when the order reached the exchange. 
Has anyone encountered this situation. How have you managed to get the 
information on the final ClOrdID that the exchange knows - in what situation 
will this be required.

2. If you do not have a direct FIX session with the exchange - how do you track 
that the order that you routed has actually reached the exchange. - I am 
thinking that we have the option where we can set the time limit on which we 
need to receive an Ack back on the DMA order - will this be sufficient. If we 
do not receive the ack in an acceptable time range - then we may decide to 
issue cancel on those orders. What is the norm in this situation

3.Has anyone seen the need to provide FIX drop copies to DMA clients along with 
the real time executions?

4. Does any client request an end of day replay of all FIX messages ?

5. How did you test exchange connectivity while the project was ongoing - 
without actually testing with the exchang. Is there any open source for an 
exchange simulator.

Any other suggestion are appreciated.

Regards

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