NOTICE DATE: September 26, 2008
NOTICE TYPE: M- B091708-02 REMINDER: Release - Retail
CLASSIFICATION: Public
SHORT DESCRIPTION: ERCOT has an Off-cycle Retail Release planned for
12:00 PM Saturday, September 27, 2008 through 12:00 AM Monday, September
29, 2008.
INTENDED AUDIENCE: All Market Participants
DAY AFFECTED: 12:00 PM Saturday, September 27, 2008 through 12:00 AM
Monday, September 29, 2008.
LONG DESCRIPTION: ERCOT has an off-cycle Retail Release scheduled from
12:00 PM Saturday September 27, 2008 through 12:00 AM Monday, September
29, 2008. During this time, ERCOT will perform the migration for
PR40066_04: the Settlements and Billing database and application
upgrade.
JUSTIFICATION: This is a rescheduled release due to Hurricane Ike.
Please refer to Market Notice M-A081408-03 sent on September 11, 2008.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: During the outage the following functions will
be affected:
* Market Participants utilizing NAESB to send/receive
transactions to/from ERCOT will be able to send/receive transactions
to/from ERCOT during the outage. This includes all retail transactions.
* 814_20 transactions will be held within ERCOT during the outage
* 867 transactions WILL be forwarded during the outage.
* 997 Functional Acknowledgements WILL 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 below WILL be available
* ERCOT.com - www.ercot.com <http://www.ercot.com/>
* MarkeTrak - https://marketrak.ercot.com:8443/tmtrack.dll
<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/>
MOS, Scheduling API, MOSTML, MOSPUBLIC, and Outage Scheduler will not be
affected as there will be a DNS failover from Taylor to Austin.
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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