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The clientSocketConnector parameters in the FIX configuration file define the name, IP address, validation scheme, stream names, and port of the Server to send FIX messages to.

Parameter Name Description
dataHost

Type: string

(Required) Specifies the name or IP address of the server to send FIX messages to.

dataPort

Type: nonNegativeInteger

(Required) Specifies the port to connect to.

streamNames

Type: streamNameType

(Required) Lists the names of the main streams in stream clusters where messages coming through this connector are hosted.

doValidation

Type: boolean

(Optional) If set to true, inbound messages coming through this connector are validated for correct message length and checksum. If set to false, the message length and checksum fields are ignored.

Invalid messages are discarded and the errors are logged. Message data is validated against the data dictionary during the parsing of the message. Default value is true.