NOTICE DATE:  February 27, 2008         

NOTICE TYPE:  M-A020708-02 UPDATE/REMINDER:  Release - Retail       

CLASSIFICATION:  Public

SHORT DESCRIPTION:  ERCOT has a scheduled Retail Release beginning 12:00
PM Saturday, March 8, 2008 through 12:00 AM Monday, March 10, 2008.


INTENDED AUDIENCE:  All Market Participants           

DAY AFFECTED:  12:00 PM Saturday, March 8, 2008 through 12:00 AM Monday,
March 10, 2008  

LONG DESCRIPTION:  ERCOT has an on-cycle Retail release scheduled from
12:00 PM Saturday, March 8, 2008 through 12:00 AM Monday, March 10,
2008.  For reference, both Market Impact SIRs and Internal ERCOT SIRs
with no Market impact are included on the attached document.

The migration of proxy servers (SIR 11715) has been removed from this
release.  ERCOT plans to implement this change in an upcoming
maintenance window.  Once the implementation date has been scheduled, a
notice will be provided.  Any Market Participant that has hard coded the
IP addresses for EBXML, LRS, or NAESB should ensure that they are
currently utilizing the URLs indicated below.

Market Participants (MPs) should be utilizing URL:

https://b2b.ercot.com:44337/servlet/b2b/ebxml-100 for EBXML
https://b2b.ercot.com:44337/servlet/lrs/ebxml-100 for LRS via EBXML
https://naesb.ercot.com:7403/ipnet/naesb for GISB16 to access ERCOT

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/>  

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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TR/JA

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Subject: M-A020708-01 Release - Retail: 12:00 PM Saturday, March 8, 2008
through 12:00 AM Monday, March 10, 2008 

 

NOTICE DATE:  February 7, 2008          

NOTICE TYPE:  M-A020708-01 Release - Retail       

CLASSIFICATION:  Public

SHORT DESCRIPTION:  ERCOT has a scheduled Retail Release beginning 12:00
PM Saturday, March 8, 2008 through 12:00 AM Monday, March 10, 2008.


INTENDED AUDIENCE:  All Market Participants           

DAY AFFECTED:  12:00 PM Saturday, March 8, 2008 through 12:00 AM Monday,
March 10, 2008          

LONG DESCRIPTION:  ERCOT has an on-cycle Retail release scheduled from
12:00 PM Saturday, March 8, 2008 through 12:00 AM Monday, March 10,
2008.  For reference, both Market Impact SIRs and Internal ERCOT SIRs
with no Market impact are included on the attached document.

ERCOT will be migrating proxy servers (SIR 11715) as part of this
release.  Any Market Participant that has hard coded the IP addresses
for EBXML, LRS, or NAESB will need to update as indicated below. 

Market Participants (MPs) should be utilizing URL:

https://b2b.ercot.com:44337/servlet/b2b/ebxml-100 for EBXML
https://b2b.ercot.com:44337/servlet/lrs/ebxml-100 for LRS via EBXML
https://naesb.ercot.com:7403/ipnet/naesb for GISB16 to access ERCOT

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/>  

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]

If you are receiving e-mail from an ERCOT distribution list that you no
longer wish to receive, please follow this link in order to unsubscribe
from this list: http://lists.ercot.com <http://lists.ercot.com/> .

 

TR/JA