NoCollInquiryQualifier (FIX tag 938)

NumInGroupFIX 4.4group counter

NoCollInquiryQualifier (tag 938) is a NumInGroup field defined in FIX 4.4. It appears in 2 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: 938
Name: NoCollInquiryQualifier
Datatype: NumInGroup (int)
Dialects: FIX 4.4
Messages: 2

What the specification says

Number of CollInquiryQualifier entries in a repeating group.

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

A real message using tag 938

CollateralInquiry · FIX 4.4

Tag	Field	Wire value	Meaning
8	BeginString	FIX.4.4
9	BodyLength	82
35	MsgType	BB	Collateral Inquiry
49	SenderCompID	BOARTEAM
56	TargetCompID	COUNTERPARTY
34	MsgSeqNum	2
52	SendingTime	20240101-12:00:00.000
938	NoCollInquiryQualifier2 entries	2	repeating group
896	CollInquiryQualifier	0	TradeDate
896	CollInquiryQualifier	0	TradeDate
10	CheckSum	065

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 938 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
CollateralInquiry	BB	Optional	inside the CollInqQualGrp component
CollateralInquiryAck	BG	Optional	inside the CollInqQualGrp component

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 938 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);// NoCollInquiryQualifier is a group counter, so the entries live on message.groups —// NOT on message.fields. message.fields[938] is undefined.const entries = message.groups[938] ?? [];for (const entry of entries) {  // entry.fields is keyed by tag; entry.groups holds nested groups}

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