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I agree that OrderQty should be optional for cancellations but that deviations 
of expected values should be made visible if this feature is used. There is a 
mandatory field CxlQty (84) in the ListStatus message today. However, the 
ExecutionReport does not carry this information explicitly and I wonder whether 
CxlQty might be a good field in this message, conditionally required for 
cancellations. LeavesQty can be set to zero and thus might not carry this 
information. A discrepancy can then be resolved by only flagging an error if 
outstanding Execution Reports (for the additional fills crossing the cancel 
request on the wire) do not arrive within a certain time frame. Only then a 
manual intervention is needed.

Regards,
Hanno.

> As of FIX.4.3 on of fields from the OrderQty component block (either
> OrderQty or CashOrderQty)is now required. Prior to FIX.4.2 the OrderQty
> is not required. A previous post:
> http://fixprotocol.org/discuss/read/c10aec99 indicates that the
> OrderQty should be validated but the cancel remainder action should be
> performed anyway.
> 
> We made the change for a reason, I just can't remember why. It seems
> like OrderQty should not be required since the behavior of
> OrderCancelRequest(35=F) is to cancel any remaining unfilled quantity.
> OrderCancelRequest cannot be used for partial cancellations.


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