Revisions to TRACE CTCI Specification

Following is a list of revisions to the TRACE CTCI Technical Specification.

Revised Version 1.8 (published 09/09/02)

Section 3.1 - Re-inserted section explaining agency trade reporting, Give-Up trade reports, and AGU trade reports, which was inadvertently deleted from Version 1.7.
Appendix B - Updated message "!REJ - TEMPORARILY NOT AVAILABLE" to "!REJ - TRACE TEMPORARILY NOT AVAILABLE".

Revised Version 1.7 (published 08/01/02)

Section 5.1 - Valid TRACE statuses returned in the acknowledgment messages are "W" - Was (BCNW message) and "T" - Trades entered for Trade Reporting (BCEN and BCAL messages).
Section 5.1 - Changed the positions of 2 fields in the BCEN message format layout. The Automatic Giveup Flag is now in position 118 and the Append Modifier is now in position 119 - 121.
Section 5.2 - Changed the positions of 2 fields in the BCAL message format layout. The Automatic Giveup Flag is now in position 118 and the Append Modifier is now in position 119 - 121.
Section 5.4 - Changed the positions of 2 fields in the BCNW message format layout. The Automatic Giveup Flag is now in position 118 and the Append Modifier is now in position 119 - 121.
Appendix B - Removed additional internal supervisory reject messages.

Revised Version 1.6 (published 05/09/02)

Section 1.1 - Updated text.
Section 1.2 - Updated text.
Section 2.2 - Removed the very last sentence in the section.
Section 3.1 - Added section explaining agency trade reporting, Give-Up trade reports, and AGU trade reports.
Section 3.2 - Inserted Carriage Return Line Feed (CR LF) after the Control Number field.
Section 3.3.1 - Updated text.
Section 4.2 - Line 3: updated text.
Section 5.1 - Exhibit 5.1: revised format.
Section 5.2 - Exhibit 5.2: revised format.
Appendix B - Removed internal supervisory reject message.

Revised Version 1.5 (published 03/01/02)

Section 1.2 - CTCI-MQ Interface
- Revised text, and provided a contact name and phone number.
Section 2.0 - Input Message Formats
- Added text to refer to the Nasdaq CTCI Message Switch document.
- Header and Trailer Layout Diagram - revised BCAN to BCER.
Section 2.4 - Text Field Definitions and all Message layouts
- The Yield format description revised to show that spaces should be entered when no yield is being provided.
Section 4.0 - Switch Output Messages
- Added text to refer to the Nasdaq CTCI Message Switch document.
Section 4.3 - TRACE UM Notification Message
- Revised the Originator Code from TRACE to BND. Refer to Chapter 4 - Standard Output Message Formats in the Nasdaq CTCI Message Switch document.
Appendix A
- Removed text. Refer to Appendix A in the Nasdaq CTCI Message Switch document.

Revised Version 1.4 (published 01/02/02)

Revised Version 1.3 (published 12/17/01)

Section 2.1 Header
- Line 1A Category - revised "Other BACT" to "OTHER"
Section 2.2 Trailer
- I. Removed "right justified"
- II. Added "A space is used to separate the sequence number from any following user-defined data.
  Example: [user-defined data]OLX 0034[spaceuser-defined data]
- III. Reworded introductory sentence and examples.
Section 2.4 Text Field Definitions
- Reversal Indicator definition - revised the last paragraph
Section 3.1 RP Trade Entry
- Reject Message - added sentence "The maximum size of a reject reason is 75 bytes."
Section 4.2 Reject Message Format
- Line 3 - Added sentence, "The maximum reject reason size is 75 bytes."
Section 5.1 Acknowledgement Message (BCEN)
- Line 1 - revised "Other" to "OTHER"
- Exhibit 5.1 (BCEN) - revised the "Reserved Field" position and format in the message format.
Section 5.2 Allege Messages (BCAL)
- Line 1 - revised "Other" to "OTHER"
- Exhibit 5.2 (BCAL) - revised the "Reserved Field" position and format in the message format.
Section 5.4 No/Was TRACE UM Notification (BCNW)
- Exhibit 5.4 (BCNW) - revised the "Reserved Field" position and format in the message format.

Revised Version 1.2 (published 10/22/01)

Revised Version 1.1 (published 08/03/01)

Removed DCAL and DCEN text
Removed BCPI text
Added text to say that "C" is a valid input in the CPID field for "Customer"
Added text to say that AGU transactions must be entered from the Seller's point of view
Corrected the Trade Modifier priorities
Added text alerting current FIPS CTCI users of migration issues from X.25 to TCP/IP