3rd party fix tools for non-standard fix

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Imported from previous forum

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What would be the easiest way to connect to a service that offers a fix-like protocol (based on fix 4.1 but no headers, footers, session layer, tag extensions, etc.)? Aside from writing the code from scratch, does anyone know of any 3rd party tools that could be leveraged for such purposes? Specifically this would be used for the Pink Links QDist protocol. Something with built in TCP/IP connectivity support and the ability to parse tag/value pairs for a configurable set of tags with standard fix msg/field delimiters.

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[ original email was from John Prewett - jprewett@lavatrading.com ]
> What would be the easiest way to connect to a service that offers a fix-

like protocol (based on fix 4.1 but no headers, footers, session layer,
tag extensions, etc.)? Aside from writing the code from scratch, does
anyone know of any 3rd party tools that could be leveraged for such
purposes? Specifically this would be used for the Pink Links QDist
protocol. Something with built in TCP/IP connectivity support and the
ability to parse tag/value pairs for a configurable set of tags with
standard fix msg/field delimiters.

You might want to contact Citi FIX governance, which has a repository of code. I can put you in touch with them if you send me a private email.

I notice that this protocol has a comment in their documentation at the front in the change history:
“11/19/2006 Changed name of protocol to QDIST Legacy”.
Would this mean there is a new version that is somewhat more standard?
It might be worth looking into.

JohnP

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What would be the easiest way to connect to a service that offers a
fix- like protocol (based on fix 4.1 but no headers, footers, session
layer, tag extensions, etc.)? Aside from writing the code from
scratch, does anyone know of any 3rd party tools that could be
leveraged for such purposes? Specifically this would be used for the
Pink Links QDist protocol. Something with built in TCP/IP connectivity
support and the ability to parse tag/value pairs for a configurable
set of tags with standard fix msg/field delimiters.

You might want to contact Citi FIX governance, which has a repository of
code. I can put you in touch with them if you send me a private email.

I notice that this protocol has a comment in their documentation at the
front in the change history: “11/19/2006 Changed name of protocol to
QDIST Legacy”. Would this mean there is a new version that is somewhat
more standard? It might be worth looking into.

JohnP

QDIST Legacy is the fix-like protocol I mentioned. They are in the process of developing a standard fix engine for this service but their is no ETA at the moment.

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What would be the easiest way to connect to a service that offers a
fix- like protocol (based on fix 4.1 but no headers, footers,
session layer, tag extensions, etc.)? Aside from writing the code
from scratch, does anyone know of any 3rd party tools that could be
leveraged for such purposes? Specifically this would be used for the
Pink Links QDist protocol. Something with built in TCP/IP
connectivity support and the ability to parse tag/value pairs for a
configurable set of tags with standard fix msg/field delimiters.

You might want to contact Citi FIX governance, which has a
repository of code. I can put you in touch with them if you send me
a private email.

I notice that this protocol has a comment in their documentation at
the front in the change history: “11/19/2006 Changed name of protocol
to QDIST Legacy”. Would this mean there is a new version that is
somewhat more standard? It might be worth looking into.

JohnP

QDIST Legacy is the fix-like protocol I mentioned. They are in the
process of developing a standard fix engine for this service but their
is no ETA at the moment.

Hi Michael,

If you want to send me a private email, I think I can probably help you out with this.

Thanks,

Russ