I have some basic knowledge in ISO 8583 message. I have seen data-elements and parsing them. Now I came across a message like DE48 SE62 SF4. I'm curious to know about the spceification of SE and SF. I tried to find what SE and SF are. But I could only end up finding their abbreviation and could not get much information about them. Could anyone please elaborate on this? It will be of great help to me. Thanks in advance!
Data Element (DE) 48 used for Private Additional data in all original specifications from 1987, 1993 and 2003 years. The definition of Sub-Elements (SE) vary from one customized specification to another as well the format and structure of data inside this data element.
Without having full message dump it is not possible to detect the specification you need to follow.
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