QuoteStatus (FIX tag 297)

intFIX 4.4FIX 4.2

QuoteStatus (tag 297) is an int field defined in FIX 4.4 and FIX 4.2. It appears in 2 message types and is required in 1 of them. It is an enumerated field with 16 defined values. FIX 4.2 calls this field QuoteAckStatus; the tag number is unchanged, so the two are the same field on the wire.

Also known as QuoteAckStatus

FIX 4.2 calls tag 297 QuoteAckStatus. It is the same field on the wire — only the name changed — so a message encoded by either side interoperates.

At a glance

Tag: 297
Name: QuoteStatus
Datatype: int
Dialects: FIX 4.4 and FIX 4.2
Messages: 2
Valid values: 16

What the specification says

FIX 4.4

Identifies the status of the quote acknowledgement

FIX 4.2

Identifies the status of the quote acknowledgement.

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

A real message using tag 297

MassQuoteAcknowledgement · FIX 4.4

Tag	Field	Wire value	Meaning
8	BeginString	FIX.4.4
9	BodyLength	69
35	MsgType	b	Mass Quote Acknowledgement
49	SenderCompID	BOARTEAM
56	TargetCompID	COUNTERPARTY
34	MsgSeqNum	2
52	SendingTime	20240101-12:00:00.000
297	QuoteStatus	0	Accepted
10	CheckSum	246

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.

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Valid values

A value outside this list is not a parse error — the message still decodes — but validate() reports it as validate/value-not-in-enum.

Value	Meaning	Symbolic name	Dialects
0	Accepted	ACCEPTED / Accepted	FIX 4.4, FIX 4.2
1	Canceled for Symbol(s)	CANCELED_FOR_SYMBOL / CancelForSymbol	FIX 4.4, FIX 4.2
2	Canceled for Security Type(s)	CANCELED_FOR_SECURITY_TYPE / CanceledForSecurityType	FIX 4.4, FIX 4.2
3	Canceled for Underlying	CANCELED_FOR_UNDERLYING / CanceledForUnderlying	FIX 4.4, FIX 4.2
4	Canceled All	CANCELED_ALL / CanceledAll	FIX 4.4, FIX 4.2
5	Rejected	REJECTED / Rejected	FIX 4.4, FIX 4.2
6	Removed from Market	REMOVED_FROM_MARKET	FIX 4.4
7	Expired	EXPIRED	FIX 4.4
8	Query	QUERY	FIX 4.4
9	Quote Not Found	QUOTE_NOT_FOUND	FIX 4.4
10	Pending	PENDING	FIX 4.4
11	Pass	PASS	FIX 4.4
12	Locked Market Warning	LOCKED_MARKET_WARNING	FIX 4.4
13	Cross Market Warning	CROSS_MARKET_WARNING	FIX 4.4
14	Canceled due to lock market	CANCELED_DUE_TO_LOCK_MARKET	FIX 4.4
15	Canceled due to cross market	CANCELED_DUE_TO_CROSS_MARKET	FIX 4.4

Where tag 297 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.

Message	MsgType	FIX 4.4	FIX 4.2	Where in the message
MassQuoteAcknowledgement	b	Required	Required	directly on the message body
QuoteStatusReport	AI	Optional	—	directly on the message body

Wire format

A whole number, optionally signed. Leading zeros are legal on the wire and are preserved in the raw value. @boarteam/fix parses the value as a number and reports parse/invalid-int when it does not lex as one; the raw string is kept either way.

Read tag 297 in TypeScript

decode.tsts

import { createFixEngine } from "@boarteam/fix";import { dictionary } from "@boarteam/fix-dict-fix44";const fix = createFixEngine(dictionary);const { message, issues } = fix.parse(raw);const quoteStatus = message.fields[297]?.raw;// e.g. "0" — Accepted// The dictionary also carries the labels:const label = fix.dictionary  .fieldByTag(297)  ?.enumValues?.find((e) => e.value === quoteStatus)  ?.description;

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