Re: [Quickfix-developers] Reject of OrderCancelRequest

[Joerg T. <Joe...@ma...>]

Jo Janssens wrote:
> I am using quickfix 1.6.0 and when I send an OrderCancelRequest, it gets 
> rejected at the session level as follows:
> 
> 20030917-20:00:00 : Created session
> 20030917-20:00:07 : Received logon request
> 20030917-20:00:07 : Responding to logon request
> 20030917-20:00:17 : Message 386 Rejected: Required tag missing:40
> 
> Here is the message I sent:
> 
> 8=FIX.4.29=13035=F34=38649=OMSRV52=20030917-20:00:1756=HELGW11=20030917-00006138=10041=20030917-00004254=155=MSFT60=20030917-20:00:1710=211
> 
> I am using the fix42.xml data dictionary that comes with quickfix 1.6, 
> and this does not specify tag 40 for cancel requests.

According to the FIX 4.2 spec and my QF 1.5.0 FIX42.xml, there is no 
field OrdType(tag 40) in the OrderCancelRequest message. Perhaps the 
error message means something different?

Cheers, Jörg

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