Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc

Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Inc. Clearing Division Web Site

SPAN® Information Pages

updated 08 August 2002

These pages contain certain technical information about SPAN and PC-SPAN® such as SPAN file formats.

Contents

PC-SPAN version 4 -- everthing about PC-SPAN, including:
- Complete online documentation for PC-SPAN
- Ordering PC-SPAN
- PC-SPAN Software Distribution website -- for registered users to download the latest release
- Using PC-SPAN version 4.02 for TRAKRS^SM (August 8, 2002)
- Using PC-SPAN version 4 for the Paris markets (September 24, 2001)
File formats
- SPAN risk parameter files -- "flat" files -- record layouts for the SPAN files composed of fixed-length records -- the unpacked format, the packed format, the expanded-unpacked format, and the Paris-expanded format
- XML-based SPAN risk parameter files -- complete documentation for the new-and-improved XML-based SPAN file format -- updated
- Daily Adjustment History files -- "flat" file format, and XML-based format
- PC-SPAN position files -- "flat" file formats -- for the original format and the expanded format-- record layouts for the position files for loading position data into PC-SPAN
- XML-based PC-SPAN position files -- documentation for the new-and-improved XML-based PC-SPAN position file format
- Other XML formats recognized by PC-SPAN
- DTD/Schema documentation Risk Param File & Position Files

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