<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:#000000">The FIX data dictionary is at best considered a suggestion.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:#000000">The reality is that counterparties do whatever they what: adding fields, removing fields, <u><i>misusing</i></u> fields even.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:#000000">There isn't much point in asking what the "proper" FIX way is, because honestly, there isn't one.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:#000000">So yeah, in the FIX world, not making sense is normal. Go with what your counterparty wants and continue with your day :) </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 11:26 AM, Mark Cooke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mc.developer@verizon.net" target="_blank">mc.developer@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">For some years now, our application has been using a values for ClOrdID when sending Allocation Messages, which does not match the value used in our New Order Single Messages. Though, they are still unique and have meaning to us.<br>
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The value has been echoed back to us in the AllocationAck messages.<br>
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But we are now talking to a different counter party and they are rejecting our Allocation Messages because they expect our values to be the same for both New Order Single and these Allocation Messages.<br>
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Personally, I always thought they should have been the same, but it has not mattered until this new counter party.<br>
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It would be easy enough to change our code to be consistent, but I'm just curious if this "requirement" makes sense?<br>
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