Added field 19

[rainer010]

This field contains the code identifying the country of the acquiring institution.

[rainer010]

I checked the ISO-8583 v2003 documentation and the field 19 is not defined. On the other hand, both major card schemes use this field for the same purpose with the same semantic. Hence, I thought it might be good to leave it there.

What do you think ? @ar

[rainer010]

The same reasoning could be applied to the PR #13

[alcarraz]

I checked the ISO-8583 v2003 documentation and the field 19 is not defined. On the other hand, both major card schemes use this field for the same purpose with the same semantic. Hence, I thought it might be good to leave it there.

I see DE 19 as Country code acquiring institution in ISO8583 v2003, in table B.1.

[alcarraz]

I see DE 19 as Country code acquiring institution in ISO8583 v2003, in table B.1.

So IMHO it is ok to add them, same goes for DE's 009 and 010 of #13, in fact that PR was from the ISO 8583 v2003 spec.

[rainer010]

I see DE 19 as Country code acquiring institution in ISO8583 v2003, in table B.1.

So IMHO it is ok to add them, same goes for DE's 009 and 010 of #13, in fact that PR was from the ISO 8583 v2003 spec.

You are right, to summarize the related PRs:

field	Location in standard spec	PR
9	Table 3.1, page 22	#13
10	Table 3.1, page 22	#13
19	Table 3.1, page 22	#20

I agree with you, these fields should be added.