TotalNumPosReports (FIX tag 727)

intFIX 4.4FIX 5.0 SP2

TotalNumPosReports (tag 727) is an int field defined in FIX 4.4 and FIX 5.0 SP2. It appears in 2 message types, always optionally.

At a glance

Tag
727
Name
TotalNumPosReports
Datatype
int
Dialects
FIX 4.4 and FIX 5.0 SP2
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
TagFieldWire valueMeaning
8BeginStringFIX.4.4
9BodyLength113
35MsgTypeAORequest For Positions Ack
49SenderCompIDBOARTEAM
56TargetCompIDCOUNTERPARTY
34MsgSeqNum2
52SendingTime20240101-12:00:00.000
721PosMaintRptIDEXAMPLE
727TotalNumPosReports1
728PosReqResult0Valid Request
729PosReqStatus0Completed
1AccountACCT-11223
581AccountType1Account is carried on customer Side of Books
10CheckSum009
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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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 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.

MessageMsgTypeFIX 4.4FIX 5.0 SP2Where in the message
PositionReportAPOptionalOptionaldirectly on the message body
RequestForPositionsAckAOOptionalOptionaldirectly 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

Other int fields

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