OrdStatus (FIX tag 39)

charFIX 4.4FIX 4.2

OrdStatus (tag 39) is a char field defined in FIX 4.4 and FIX 4.2. It appears in 4 message types and is required in 3 of them. It is an enumerated field with 14 defined values.

At a glance

Tag
39
Name
OrdStatus
Datatype
char
Dialects
FIX 4.4 and FIX 4.2
Messages
4
Valid values
14

What the specification says

FIX 4.4

Identifies current status of order. *** SOME VALUES HAVE BEEN REPLACED - See "Replaced Features and Supported Approach" *** (see Volume : "Glossary" for value definitions)

FIX 4.2

Identifies current status of order.

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

A real message using tag 39

OrderCancelReject · FIX 4.4
TagFieldWire valueMeaning
8BeginStringFIX.4.4
9BodyLength113
35MsgType9Order Cancel Reject
49SenderCompIDBOARTEAM
56TargetCompIDCOUNTERPARTY
34MsgSeqNum2
52SendingTime20240101-12:00:00.000
37OrderIDORD-10042
11ClOrdIDORD-10042
41OrigClOrdIDORD-10041
39OrdStatus0New
434CxlRejResponseTo1Order Cancel Request
10CheckSum204
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 4.4 dictionary and verified at build time: it parses and validates with no issues. Open the decoder to try your own message.

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.

ValueMeaningSymbolic nameDialects
0NewNEW / NewFIX 4.4, FIX 4.2
1Partially filledPARTIALLY_FILLED / PartiallyFilledFIX 4.4, FIX 4.2
2FilledFILLED / FilledFIX 4.4, FIX 4.2
3Done for dayDONE_FOR_DAY / DoneForDayFIX 4.4, FIX 4.2
4CanceledCANCELED / CanceledFIX 4.4, FIX 4.2
6Pending Cancel (e.g. result of Order Cancel Request)PENDING_CANCEL / PendingCancelFIX 4.4, FIX 4.2
7StoppedSTOPPED / StoppedFIX 4.4, FIX 4.2
8RejectedREJECTED / RejectedFIX 4.4, FIX 4.2
9SuspendedSUSPENDED / SuspendedFIX 4.4, FIX 4.2
APending NewPENDING_NEW / PendingNewFIX 4.4, FIX 4.2
BCalculatedCALCULATED / CalculatedFIX 4.4, FIX 4.2
CExpiredEXPIRED / ExpiredFIX 4.4, FIX 4.2
DAccepted for biddingACCEPTED_FOR_BIDDING / AcceptedForBiddingFIX 4.4, FIX 4.2
EPending Replace (e.g. result of Order Cancel/Replace Request)PENDING_REPLACE / PendingReplaceFIX 4.4, FIX 4.2
5ReplacedReplacedFIX 4.2

Where tag 39 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.

MessageMsgTypeFIX 4.4FIX 4.2Where in the message
ExecutionReport8RequiredRequireddirectly on the message body
ListStatusNRequiredRequiredinside the OrdListStatGrp component
OrderCancelReject9RequiredRequireddirectly on the message body
TradeCaptureReportAEOptionaldirectly on the message body

Wire format

A single character. Most char fields are enumerated, so the value is one of a fixed set rather than arbitrary text. @boarteam/fix keeps the value as a string and, for enumerated fields, reports validate/value-not-in-enum when it is not a defined value.

Read tag 39 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 ordStatus = message.fields[39]?.raw;// e.g. "0" — New// The dictionary also carries the labels:const label = fix.dictionary  .fieldByTag(39)  ?.enumValues?.find((e) => e.value === ordStatus)  ?.description;

Other char 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-fix44