Sep.05.10
ReplayService for Reuters Market Data System

Record and Replay data from RMDS - now with support for OMM and direct feeds

CodeStreet's ReplayService™ for RMDS has become the standard record and replay facility for the Thomson Reuters RMDS platform. With the software running at a majority of the top 20 banks and broker-dealers, ReplayService is used in a variety of use cases to capture, analyze and replay real-time market data.

ReplayService for RMDS - now with support for OMM - delivers a highly flexible development tool that dramatically improves the efficiency of any group working with data flowing on the Reuters Market Data System (RMDS). ReplayService will record both Marketfeed and OMM formatted data from RMDS and make it available for replay. ReplayService simulates an RMDS system during playback or mimics a Thomson Reuters direct feed.



Business Benefits

Development and QA:

  • Feature Testing: more repeatable, automated, rigorous, and simpler than with RMDS alone
  • Remote, Off-shore, and After-hours Development
  • Simplifies collecting market data by capturing tick-by-tick market data as well as intermittent snapshots
  • Network Administration:

  • Capacity Planning: Create High Update Market Data Traffic Scenarios
  • Stress Testing: Pinpoint system issues by simulating a high-update rate feed handler
  • Quant Analysis:

  • Stimulate Trading Models
  • Create Precise Market Scenarios: Recorded data can be manipulated to contrive market data scenarios to be used in testing
  • Provides greater insight into data content


  • New Features in 3.x release:

    As part of CodeStreet's ongoing commitment to deliver tools for market data developers and administrators that make working with market data simpler and more cost effective, we have added support for the Thomson Reuters Open Message Model (OMM). ReplayService will now be able to record and replay data from Thomson Reuters' direct feeds or any other data flowing on RMDS that uses either the Marketfeed or the OMM format.

    Records and replays all RMDS (both OMM and Marketfeed) data: including quotes, chains, pages, etc.

    Records and replays the following domain model types:

  • MarketPrice
  • MarketByOrder
  • MarketByPrice
  • MarketMaker
  • SymbolList
  • Provides a new and improved GUI Console and a command-line interface:

  • Centralized administration for multiple local and remote instances of RS-RMDS within a single GUI
  • Wizard-driven control over common market data tasks
  • Interactive Histogram for recordings and replays
  • Provides a new Script Recorder to assist in Test Case creation and automation

    Other Core Features

  • Allows any data range to be selected for replay
  • Recorded data can be manipulated to contrive arbitrary market data scenarios for replay
  • Reuters tick history can be imported for replay
  • Lightweight - runs on a laptop and most other hardware
  • Keeps a historical tick-by-tick database – allows for the migration of data to relational databases
  • Preserves timing relationships between updates during replay
  • Update rates can be compressed, expanded or paused during replay on an ad hoc basis
  • Large file based storage: up to 2 exabytes – no storage configuration required
  • Market data files can be easily copied and moved, allowing RMDS testing in any location, even on standalone workstations or laptops
  • High performance recording
  • Supports initialization of market data applications through data dictionary downloads and initial value snapshots
  • Heartbeats and source status messages support market data semantics
  • Datastore can be purged while recording and replaying
  • Provides statistics on stored and replayed messages
  • GUI interface, command line shell and Administration API




  • Platform Support

    ReplayService for RS-RMDS 3.0 is available on the following platforms: Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later, 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 R2 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

    Support for Linux RHEL AS, ES, and WS 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 and SuSE SLES 8, 9, 10; and Solaris 10 x86 is soon to follow.

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    CodeStreet and Thomson Reuters have teamed up to make ReplayService for RMDS a reality for RMDS users and application developers. For more information about ReplayService for RMDS, please see the product sheet.

    For a product demonstration or further information, contact us: sales@codestreet.com
    CodeStreet
    317 Madison Avenue
    7th Floor
    New York, NY 10017
    Telephone: 646-442-2800
    www.codestreet.com

    You can also call your Thomson Reuters sales representative or visit the Thomson Reuters Customer Zone.

    ReplayService for RMDS simulates a complete market data infrastructure, publishing previously recorded market data updates to subscribing applications upon request.

      Download (RS-RMDS)  
      RS-RMDS Product Sheet (PDF)  
      RS-RMDS Solutions (PDF)  
      Capacity Planning Solution (PDF)  



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