NestedPartyRole (FIX tag 538)

intFIX 4.4

NestedPartyRole (tag 538) is an int field defined in FIX 4.4. It appears in 22 message types, always optionally.

At a glance

Tag: 538
Name: NestedPartyRole
Datatype: int
Dialects: FIX 4.4
Messages: 22

What the specification says

PartyRole value within a nested repeating group. Same values as PartyRole (452)

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

A real message using tag 538

NewOrderSingle · FIX 4.4

Tag	Field	Wire value	Meaning
8	BeginString	FIX.4.4
9	BodyLength	169
35	MsgType	D	Order – Single
49	SenderCompID	BOARTEAM
56	TargetCompID	COUNTERPARTY
34	MsgSeqNum	2
52	SendingTime	20240101-12:00:00.000
11	ClOrdID	ORD-10042
78	NoAllocs1 entry	1	repeating group
79	AllocAccount	EXAMPLE
539	NoNestedPartyIDs2 entries	2	repeating group
524	NestedPartyID	EXAMPLE
538	NestedPartyRole	1
524	NestedPartyID	EXAMPLE
538	NestedPartyRole	1
54	Side	1	Buy
60	TransactTime	20240101-12:00:00.000
40	OrdType	1	Market
10	CheckSum	142

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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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Where tag 538 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	Requiredness	Where in the message
AllocationInstruction	J	Conditional	inside AllocGrp › NestedParties
AllocationReport	AS	Conditional	inside AllocGrp › NestedParties
AssignmentReport	AW	Conditional	inside PositionQty › NestedParties
CrossOrderCancelReplaceRequest	t	Conditional	inside SideCrossOrdModGrp › PreAllocGrp › NestedParties
ExecutionReport	8	Conditional	inside InstrmtLegExecGrp › NestedParties
MultilegOrderCancelReplace	AC	Conditional	inside LegOrdGrp › NestedParties
NewOrderCross	s	Conditional	inside SideCrossOrdModGrp › PreAllocGrp › NestedParties
NewOrderList	E	Conditional	inside ListOrdGrp › PreAllocGrp › NestedParties
NewOrderMultileg	AB	Conditional	inside LegOrdGrp › NestedParties
NewOrderSingle	D	Conditional	inside PreAllocGrp › NestedParties
OrderCancelReplaceRequest	G	Conditional	inside PreAllocGrp › NestedParties
PositionMaintenanceReport	AM	Conditional	inside PositionQty › NestedParties
PositionMaintenanceRequest	AL	Conditional	inside PositionQty › NestedParties
PositionReport	AP	Conditional	inside PositionQty › NestedParties
Quote	S	Conditional	inside LegQuotGrp › NestedParties
QuoteRequest	R	Conditional	inside QuotReqGrp › QuotReqLegsGrp › NestedParties
QuoteRequestReject	AG	Conditional	inside QuotReqRjctGrp › QuotReqLegsGrp › NestedParties
QuoteResponse	AJ	Conditional	inside LegQuotGrp › NestedParties
QuoteStatusReport	AI	Conditional	inside LegQuotStatGrp › NestedParties
RegistrationInstructions	o	Conditional	inside RgstDtlsGrp › NestedParties
TradeCaptureReport	AE	Conditional	inside TrdInstrmtLegGrp › NestedParties
TradeCaptureReportAck	AR	Conditional	inside TrdInstrmtLegGrp › NestedParties

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 538 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 field = message.fields[538];field?.name;   // "NestedPartyRole"field?.raw;    // the verbatim wire stringfield?.value;  // coerced to a number

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