Exchange Systems, Inc.
Support Tools
Both trading and market data solutions involve logging messages to log files. We have developed some supporting tools that help with analyzing the log files. Usually the messages in the log files are encoded in particular protocol, and these tools provide a human-readable representation of these messages.

 FIXLogFileViewer: This application allows users to open FIX protocol based log files, and browse each message. The following picture shows a FIX order message in the viewer.

FIXLogFileViewer
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 FIX message plug-in for TextPad: This plug-in allows the user to get message information, while editing the FIX message log file using the TextPad application. The following picture shows, how a FIX message can be highlighted, and using a key-sequence the message description can be obtained.
FIX message plug-in for TextPad
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FIX message plug-in for TextPad
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 RLC message plug-in for TextPad: This plug-in allows the user to get message information, while editing the RLC message (market data) log file using the TextPad application. The following picture shows, how an RLC market data message can be highlighted, and using a key-sequence the message description can be obtained.
RLC message plug-in for TextPad
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RLC message plug-in for TextPad
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