SideComplianceID (FIX tag 659)

StringFIX 4.4

SideComplianceID (tag 659) is a String field defined in FIX 4.4. It appears in 2 message types, always optionally.

At a glance

Tag
659
Name
SideComplianceID
Datatype
String
Dialects
FIX 4.4
Messages
2

What the specification says

ID within repeating group of sides which is used to represent this transaction for compliance purposes (e.g. OATS reporting).

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

A real message using tag 659

NewOrderCross · FIX 4.4
TagFieldWire valueMeaning
8BeginStringFIX.4.4
9BodyLength183
35MsgTypesNew Order - Cross
49SenderCompIDBOARTEAM
56TargetCompIDCOUNTERPARTY
34MsgSeqNum2
52SendingTime20240101-12:00:00.000
548CrossIDEXAMPLE
549CrossType1Cross Trade which is executed completely or not. Both sides are treated in the same manner. This is equivalent to an All or None.
550CrossPrioritization0None
552NoSides2 entries2repeating group
54Side1Buy
11ClOrdIDORD-10042
659SideComplianceIDEXAMPLE
54Side1Buy
11ClOrdIDORD-10042
659SideComplianceIDEXAMPLE
60TransactTime20240101-12:00:00.000
40OrdType1Market
10CheckSum149
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.

Where tag 659 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
CrossOrderCancelReplaceRequesttOptionalinside the SideCrossOrdModGrp component
NewOrderCrosssOptionalinside the SideCrossOrdModGrp component

Wire format

Free-form text. Any byte except the SOH separator is legal, so values are not trimmed or case-folded on the wire. @boarteam/fix keeps the value as a string; format rules are checked by validate(), which reports validate/invalid-value rather than throwing.

Read tag 659 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[659];field?.name;   // "SideComplianceID"field?.raw;    // the verbatim wire stringfield?.value;  // coerced to a string

Other String 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