EndMaturityMonthYear (FIX tag 1226)

MonthYearFIX 5.0 SP2

EndMaturityMonthYear (tag 1226) is a MonthYear field defined in FIX 5.0 SP2. It appears in 6 message types, always optionally.

At a glance

Tag
1226
Name
EndMaturityMonthYear
Datatype
MonthYear (String)
Format
YYYYMM[DD|WW]
Dialects
FIX 5.0 SP2
Messages
6

What the specification says

Ending maturity month year for an option class

Descriptions are quoted from the FIX Orchestra sources under the Apache 2.0 licence.

A real message using tag 1226

SecurityDefinition · FIX 5.0 SP2
TagFieldWire valueMeaning
8BeginStringFIXT.1.1
9BodyLength157
35MsgTypedSecurityDefinition
49SenderCompIDBOARTEAM
56TargetCompIDCOUNTERPARTY
34MsgSeqNum2
52SendingTime20240101-12:00:00.000
1310NoMarketSegments1 entry1repeating group
1301MarketIDXNAS
1201NoStrikeRules1 entry1repeating group
1223StrikeRuleIDEXAMPLE
1236NoMaturityRules2 entries2repeating group
1222MaturityRuleIDEXAMPLE
1226EndMaturityMonthYear202401
1222MaturityRuleIDEXAMPLE
1226EndMaturityMonthYear202401
10CheckSum220
Edit and decode it yourself

Shown with | separators for readability. On the wire FIX uses SOH (0x01), an invisible control byte — and because BodyLength and CheckSum are computed over the actual bytes, the two forms have different checksums. Both are valid and both decode here.

Open in the full decoder →

Generated from the FIX 5.0 SP2 dictionary and verified at build time: it parses and validates with no issues. Open the decoder to try your own message.

Where tag 1226 appears

Requiredness is a property of the message, not of the field: the same tag can be optional in one message and conditionally required in another.

MessageMsgTypeRequirednessWhere in the message
DerivativeSecurityListAAOptionalinside DerivativeSecurityDefinition › MarketSegmentGrp › StrikeRules › MaturityRules
DerivativeSecurityListUpdateReportBROptionalinside DerivativeSecurityDefinition › MarketSegmentGrp › StrikeRules › MaturityRules
SecurityDefinitiondOptionalinside MarketSegmentGrp › StrikeRules › MaturityRules
SecurityDefinitionUpdateReportBPOptionalinside MarketSegmentGrp › StrikeRules › MaturityRules
SecurityListyOptionalinside SecListGrp › StrikeRules › MaturityRules
SecurityListUpdateReportBKOptionalinside SecLstUpdRelSymGrp › StrikeRules › MaturityRules

Wire format

A month, optionally with a day or week — the format pattern shows which forms are legal. @boarteam/fix keeps the value as a string; format rules are checked by validate(), which reports validate/invalid-value rather than throwing.

Read tag 1226 in TypeScript

decode.tsts
import { createFixEngine } from "@boarteam/fix";import { dictionary } from "@boarteam/fix-dict-fix50sp2";const fix = createFixEngine(dictionary);const { message, issues } = fix.parse(raw);const field = message.fields[1226];field?.name;   // "EndMaturityMonthYear"field?.raw;    // the verbatim wire stringfield?.value;  // coerced to a string

Other MonthYear fields

Decode this in your own code

The same engine that produced the decoded example above is an Apache-2.0 npm package with zero runtime dependencies. It runs in Node and in the browser, and parse() returns problems as data instead of throwing.

npm i @boarteam/fix @boarteam/fix-dict-fix50sp2