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Normally, your ISV (we call them Independent Software Vendors) would be routing orders to you on behalf of their clients. This represents pure technical information as they typically do not carry any responsibility for the order being entered. This would be covered by fields in the standard header, i.e. your ISV would not be conveyed in teh Parties block, only the users would. However, if you need to report the ISV ID to the CFTC, you are probably right in using party roles for that as it becomes a non-technical party. FIX offers a distinction between entering and executing traders/units/firms. Your ISV is the entering party but is not respopnsible for any executions, i.e. your users are the executing parties. If you want to define parties at the firm level you can use 7=Entering Firm for that and then 1=Executing Firm for the users. If you have more than one user from a single firm, you might want to add 12=Executing Trader as a third party role. > We have 2 different kinds of users: > a) Some directly connect to our trading system using a userid (u1) b) > Some users login via a Integrated service vendor(ISV. The ISV > connects to our trading system using a common user id (u2) for all > their users. Each user has their own user id (IS1) to login to the > ISVs system. We need to report to the CFTC all the ids. In the > parties block we are using Party Role 44 (Order Entry Operator id) > (tags 448, 452) to report u1 and u2-the user ids that are used to > connect to our trading system. > > What Party role or tag could we use to report the other user id > (IS1)that is supplied to us by the ISV? [You can unsubscribe from this discussion group by sending a message to mailto:[email protected]] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Financial Information eXchange" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/FIX-Protocol?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
