NoUnderlyingStips (FIX tag 887)

NumInGroupFIX 4.4group counter

NoUnderlyingStips (tag 887) is a NumInGroup field defined in FIX 4.4. It appears in 59 message types, always optionally. Its datatype is NumInGroup, which makes it a repeating-group counter: its value is the number of entries that follow, not a quantity in its own right.

At a glance

Tag
887
Name
NoUnderlyingStips
Datatype
NumInGroup (int)
Dialects
FIX 4.4
Messages
59

What the specification says

Number of underlying stipulation entries

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

A real message using tag 887

NewOrderSingle · FIX 4.4
TagFieldWire valueMeaning
8BeginStringFIX.4.4
9BodyLength159
35MsgTypeDOrder – Single
49SenderCompIDBOARTEAM
56TargetCompIDCOUNTERPARTY
34MsgSeqNum2
52SendingTime20240101-12:00:00.000
11ClOrdIDORD-10042
711NoUnderlyings1 entry1repeating group
311UnderlyingSymbolEXAMPLE
887NoUnderlyingStips2 entries2repeating group
888UnderlyingStipTypeEXAMPLE
888UnderlyingStipTypeEXAMPLE
54Side1Buy
60TransactTime20240101-12:00:00.000
40OrdType1Market
10CheckSum222
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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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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 887 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
Advertisement7Optionalinside UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
AllocationInstructionJOptionalinside UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
AllocationReportASOptionalinside UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
AssignmentReportAWOptionalinside UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
CollateralAssignmentAYOptionalinside UndInstrmtCollGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
CollateralInquiryBBOptionalinside UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
CollateralInquiryAckBGOptionalinside UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
CollateralReportBAOptionalinside UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
CollateralRequestAXOptionalinside UndInstrmtCollGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
CollateralResponseAZOptionalinside UndInstrmtCollGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
ConfirmationAKOptionalinside UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
CrossOrderCancelReplaceRequesttOptionalinside UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
CrossOrderCancelRequestuOptionalinside UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
DerivativeSecurityListAAOptionalinside UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
DerivativeSecurityListRequestzOptionalinside UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
DontKnowTradeQOptionalinside UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
EmailCOptionalinside UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
ExecutionReport8Optionalinside UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
IOI6Optionalinside UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
ListStrikePricemOptionalinside UndInstrmtStrkPxGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
MarketDataIncrementalRefreshXOptionalinside MDIncGrp › UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
MarketDataRequestVOptionalinside InstrmtMDReqGrp › UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
MarketDataSnapshotFullRefreshWOptionalinside UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
MassQuoteiOptionalinside QuotSetGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
MassQuoteAcknowledgementbOptionalinside QuotSetAckGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
MultilegOrderCancelReplaceACOptionalinside UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
NewOrderCrosssOptionalinside UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
NewOrderListEOptionalinside ListOrdGrp › UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
NewOrderMultilegABOptionalinside UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
NewOrderSingleDOptionalinside UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
NewsBOptionalinside UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
OrderCancelReplaceRequestGOptionalinside UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
OrderCancelRequestFOptionalinside UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
OrderMassCancelReportrOptionalinside UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
OrderMassCancelRequestqOptionalinside UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
OrderMassStatusRequestAFOptionalinside UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
OrderStatusRequestHOptionalinside UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
PositionMaintenanceReportAMOptionalinside UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
PositionMaintenanceRequestALOptionalinside UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
PositionReportAPOptionalinside PosUndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
QuoteSOptionalinside UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
QuoteCancelZOptionalinside QuotCxlEntriesGrp › UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
QuoteRequestROptionalinside QuotReqGrp › UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
QuoteRequestRejectAGOptionalinside QuotReqRjctGrp › UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
QuoteResponseAJOptionalinside UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
QuoteStatusReportAIOptionalinside UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
QuoteStatusRequestaOptionalinside UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
RFQRequestAHOptionalinside RFQReqGrp › UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
RequestForPositionsANOptionalinside UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
RequestForPositionsAckAOOptionalinside UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
SecurityDefinitiondOptionalinside UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
SecurityDefinitionRequestcOptionalinside UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
SecurityListyOptionalinside SecListGrp › UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
SecurityListRequestxOptionalinside UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
SecurityStatusfOptionalinside UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
SecurityStatusRequesteOptionalinside UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
TradeCaptureReportAEOptionalinside UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
TradeCaptureReportRequestADOptionalinside UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations
TradeCaptureReportRequestAckAQOptionalinside UndInstrmtGrp › UnderlyingInstrument › UnderlyingStipulations

Wire format

The number of entries in the repeating group that follows. The next field on the wire is the group's delimiter tag. @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 887 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);// NoUnderlyingStips is a group counter, so the entries live on message.groups —// NOT on message.fields. message.fields[887] is undefined.const entries = message.groups[887] ?? [];for (const entry of entries) {  // entry.fields is keyed by tag; entry.groups holds nested groups}

Other NumInGroup fields

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