TotalNumPosReports (FIX tag 727)

intFIX 4.4

TotalNumPosReports (tag 727) is an int field defined in FIX 4.4. It appears in 2 message types, always optionally.

At a glance

Tag: 727
Name: TotalNumPosReports
Datatype: int
Dialects: FIX 4.4
Messages: 2

What the specification says

Total number of Position Reports being returned.

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

A real message using tag 727

RequestForPositionsAck · FIX 4.4

Tag	Field	Wire value	Meaning
8	BeginString	FIX.4.4
9	BodyLength	113
35	MsgType	AO	Request For Positions Ack
49	SenderCompID	BOARTEAM
56	TargetCompID	COUNTERPARTY
34	MsgSeqNum	2
52	SendingTime	20240101-12:00:00.000
721	PosMaintRptID	EXAMPLE
727	TotalNumPosReports	1
728	PosReqResult	0	Valid Request
729	PosReqStatus	0	Completed
1	Account	ACCT-11223
581	AccountType	1	Account is carried on customer Side of Books
10	CheckSum	009

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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Where tag 727 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
PositionReport	AP	Optional	directly on the message body
RequestForPositionsAck	AO	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 727 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[727];field?.name;   // "TotalNumPosReports"field?.raw;    // the verbatim wire stringfield?.value;  // coerced to a number

Decode this in your own code

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