NOTICE DATE:  July 17, 2014
NOTICE TYPE:  M-A062614-02 Release - Retail

SHORT DESCRIPTION:  Reminder - Retail Release

INTENDED AUDIENCE:  ERCOT Market Participants
DAY AFFECTED:  17:00 Saturday, July 26, 2014 through 00:00 Monday, July 28, 2014
LONG DESCRIPTION:  ERCOT has an on-cycle Retail Release planned for 17:00 Saturday, July 26, 2014 through 00:00 Monday, July 28, 2014.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:  During this 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
  *   867 Transactions will NOT be forwarded during the outage
  *   997 Functional Acknowledgements will NOT be sent during the outage
  *   MarkeTrak will be unavailable for the duration of the outage
  *   Retail components of the MIS and the Retail API will not be available
  *   Retail Reports and Extracts may be impacted
  *   MPIM will not be available

*         eService application will be unavailable on the Market Information System (MIS)
ACTION REQUIRED: The URL for the MarkeTrak GUI will be changing with this release.  Market Participants should use https://mis.ercot.com/marketrak/tmtrack.dll to access the MarkeTrak GUI effective at the conclusion of the maintenance window.
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 email at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
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