Re: [Quickfix-developers] Tag 55 Symbol

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

Hi Bill,

> In the XML files (I verified it in FIX43.xml and FIX44.xml) tag 55 Symbol is
> marked as mandatory.

What messages you are refering to? Normally a tag is mandatory for a 
message or component for new versions.

> In the FIX standard the tag is marked as not mandatory (4.4, 4.3 unclear),
> but the comments leave room for interpretation.

To which page/section of the standard do you refer?

> I've an issue with this field as we use always tag 48/22 to identify a security.

I know. We always set tag 55 to the same value as tag 48. Which exchange 
do you connect to?

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