NOTICE DATE:  September 29, 2011
NOTICE TYPE:  M-B092911-01 INITIAL: Maintenance Outage – Retail/Wholesale
SHORT DESCRIPTION:  Scheduled Maintenance Outage
INTENDED AUDIENCE:  All Market Participants
DAY AFFECTED:  Sunday, October 2, 2011 from 06:00 through 21:00
LONG DESCRIPTION:  ERCOT has scheduled a maintenance outage for Sunday, October 2, 2011 from 06:00 through 21:00.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:  During the outage the following functions will be affected:

  *   Market Participants utilizing NAESB to send/receive transactions to/from ERCOT will NOT be able to send/receive transactions to/from ERCOT during the outage. This includes all retail transactions.
  *   867 transactions will NOT be forwarded during the outage.
  *   997 Functional Acknowledgements will NOT be sent during the outage.
  *   Components of the TML and Commercial API will NOT be available including:
     *   Find ESI ID
     *   Find Transaction
     *   Submit Transactions
     *   USA Functionalities
     *   Report Explorer, including
        *   Reports
        *   Extracts
        *   Invoices
        *   Settlement Statements
     *   Extract Scheduler
     *   Web Services Data Requests

  *   ERCOT Internet Services will NOT be available, including but not limited to:
     *   ERCOT.com – www.ercot.com<http://www.ercot.com>
     *   MarkeTrak - https://marketrak.ercot.com:8443/tmtrack.dll
     *   TCR - https://tcr.ercot.com<https://tcr.ercot.com/>
     *   Texas Renewables – www.texasrenewables.com<http://www.texasrenewables.com/>
  *   Components of the MIS will NOT be available including:
     *   Retail Applications


  *   Components of the MIS will intermittently NOT be available including:
     *   Downloading of extracts and reports
     *   Current Day Reports without retry functionality may not be rerun for the missed postings during the outage time.
     *   MIS Secure area dashboards will be intermittently unavailable
     *   www.ercot.com pricing and load data displays will be intermittently unavailable
     *   USA Functionalities
     *   Extract Subscriber
     *   Market Data Transparency

o    During this outage, please use the following URLs to directly access the Market Manager and Outage Scheduler:

https://mis.ercot.com/mmsui/mmsui/displayTradesLanding.action

https://mis.ercot.com/osrui/osrui/Summary.action


  *   Components of the External Web Services (EWS) will intermittently NOT be available
CONTACT:  If you have any questions, please contact your ERCOT Account Manager.  You may also call the general ERCOT Client Services phone number at (512) 248-3900 or contact ERCOT Client Services via e-mail at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
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JR/DP
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