NOTICE DATE: August 6, 2008
NOTICE TYPE: M-B071708-02 Release - Retail
CLASSIFICATION: Public
SHORT DESCRIPTION: ERCOT has an off-cycle Retail Release scheduled for
8:00 AM Saturday, August 16, 2008 through 12:00 AM Monday, August 18,
2008.
INTENDED AUDIENCE: All Market Participants
DAY AFFECTED: 8:00 AM Saturday, August 16, 2008 through 12:00 AM
Monday, August 18, 2008. MarkeTrak will be unavailable beginning 7:00
PM Friday, August 15, 2008.
LONG DESCRIPTION: ERCOT has an off-cycle Retail Release scheduled from
8:00 AM Saturday August 16, 2008 through 12:00 AM Monday, August 18,
2008. For reference, Market impacting SIRs, internal ERCOT SIRs with no
Market impact and MarkeTrak Release 2 requirements are included in the
attached documents.
ERCOT will also use the normal MarkeTrak maintenance window beginning
7:00 PM Friday, August 15, 2008 through 12:00 AM Monday, August 18,
2008. During this time, ERCOT will perform the PR70007_01 MarkeTrak
Release 2 migration to production. MarkeTrak Service Level Agreement
timeframe is 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM during retail business days.
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 both the TML and commercial API will NOT be
available including:
o Find ESI ID
o Find Transaction
o Submit Transactions
o USA Functionalities
o Report Explorer, including
* Reports
* Extracts
* Invoices
* Settlement Statements
o Extract Scheduler
o Web Services Data Requests
* ERCOT internet services will NOT be available, including but not
limited to:
o ERCOT.com - www.ercot.com <http://www.ercot.com/>
o MarkeTrak - https://marketrak.ercot.com:8443/tmtrack.dll?
o TCR - https://tcr.ercot.com <https://tcr.ercot.com/>
o 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
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Subject: M-B071708-01 Off-Cycle Release - Retail - 8:00 AM Saturday,
August 16, 2008 through 12:00 AM Monday, August 18, 2008
NOTICE DATE: July 17, 2008
NOTICE TYPE: M-B071708-01 Release - Retail
CLASSIFICATION: Public
SHORT DESCRIPTION: ERCOT has an off-cycle Retail Release planned for
8:00 AM Saturday, August 16, 2008 through 12:00 AM Monday, August 18,
2008.
INTENDED AUDIENCE: All Market Participants
DAY AFFECTED: 8:00 AM Saturday, August 16, 2008 through 12:00 AM
Monday, August 18, 2008. MarkeTrak will be unavailable beginning 7:00 PM
Friday, August 15, 2008.
LONG DESCRIPTION: ERCOT has an off-cycle Retail Release scheduled from
8:00 AM Saturday August 16, 2008 through 12:00 AM Monday, August 18,
2008. For reference, Market impacting SIRs, internal ERCOT SIRs with no
Market impact, and MarkeTrak Release 2 requirements are included on the
attached documents.
ERCOT will also use the normal MarkeTrak maintenance window beginning
7:00 PM Friday, August 15, 2008 through 12:00 AM Monday, August 18,
2008. During this time, ERCOT will perform the PR70007_01 MarkeTrak
Release 2 migration to production. MarkeTrak service availability is
7:00 AM to 7:00 PM during retail business days.
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 both the TML and commercial API will NOT be
available including:
o Find ESI ID
o Find Transaction
o Submit Transactions
o USA Functionalities
o Report Explorer, including
* Reports
* Extracts
* Invoices
* Settlement Statements
o Extract Scheduler
o Web Services Data Requests
* ERCOT internet services will NOT be available, including but not
limited to:
o ERCOT.com - www.ercot.com <http://www.ercot.com/>
o MarkeTrak - https://marketrak.ercot.com:8443/tmtrack.dll?
o TCR - https://tcr.ercot.com <https://tcr.ercot.com/>
o 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
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longer wish to receive, please follow this link in order to unsubscribe
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