{{Quickfixn}} Why is Symbol (55) a required tag of Position Report (AP)?

[Grant Birchmeier]

I think you found a bug.

It may be sufficient for you to go into your FIX44.xml file and change the
Symbol that's inside the Instrument component to Required=N.  (I assume you
are using UseDataDictionary=Y and DataDictionary=path/to/DD.xml)

I will open a bug.  Not sure if that suggested fix is ready for prime-time;
need to make sure it doesn't break anything else.

-Grant




On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 2:17 AM, Stan <stan.quickfixn at gmail.com> wrote:

> After more research, I noted that PositionReport has a component block
> called "Instrument" which contains "Symbol". That probably explains why
> Symbol is a property of PositionReport.
>
> However neither Instrument nor Symbol are required fields of
> PositionReport according to the specs.
>
> It would be great if someone knows how I can get QuickFIX/n to not treat
> them as required. Thanks!
>
> On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Stan <stan.quickfixn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've been getting a "required tag missing" error on receipt of Position
>> Report (AP) messages. The required tag is apparently Symbol (55).
>>
>> I took a look at FIX44.xml. The description for Position Report does not
>> contain Symbol. Yet the QuickFix.FIX44.PositionReport class has Symbol as a
>> property. I don't use tag 55 in my AP messages. And it seems it is not a
>> required tag according to the standard.
>>
>> Is this a bug in QuickFix/n? How can I get around this?
>>
>>    - Regenerating the code in QuickFixn/Message/FIX44/PositionReport.cs
>>    produced the same code that has Symbol as a property.
>>    - Adding <field name="Symbol" required="N"> into FIX44.xml did not
>>    help either.
>>
>> Note: QuickFix/n happily sends out AP messages without tag 55.
>>
>> Regards,
>> S
>>
>>
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