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FIX Field 817

Tag	Name	Type	Enumerated	First introduced	Deprecated
817	AltMDSourceID	String		FIX.4.4

Session layer source for market data

(For the standard FIX session layer, this would be the TargetCompID (56) where market data can be obtained).

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