NOTICE DATE: July 2, 2008 NOTICE TYPE: M-B061208-02 REMINDER Release - Retail CLASSIFICATION: Public SHORT DESCRIPTION: ERCOT has a scheduled Retail release planned for 12:00 PM Saturday, July 12, 2008 through 12:00 AM Monday, July 14, 2008. INTENDED AUDIENCE: All Market Participants DAY AFFECTED: 12:00 PM Saturday, July 12, 2008 through 12:00 AM Monday, July 14, 2008 LONG DESCRIPTION: ERCOT has an on-cycle Retail release scheduled from 12:00 PM Saturday, July 12, 2008 through 12:00 AM Monday, July 14, 2008. For reference, both Market impacting SIRs and Internal ERCOT SIRs with no Market impact are included on the attached document. 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: * 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/> . DH/JA ________________________________ From: ERCOT Client Relations Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 5:10 PM To: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask] Cc: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; 1 ERCOT Client Service Reps Subject: M-B061208-01 Release - Retail: 12:00 PM Saturday, July 12, 2008 through 12:00 AM Monday, July 14, 2008 NOTICE DATE: June 12, 2008 NOTICE TYPE: M-B061208-01 Release - Retail CLASSIFICATION: Public SHORT DESCRIPTION: ERCOT has a scheduled Retail release planned for 12:00 PM Saturday, July 12, 2008 through 12:00 AM Monday, July 14, 2008. INTENDED AUDIENCE: All Market Participants DAY AFFECTED: 12:00 PM Saturday, July 12, 2008 through 12:00 AM Monday, July 14, 2008 LONG DESCRIPTION: ERCOT has an on-cycle Retail release scheduled from 12:00 PM Saturday, July 12, 2008 through 12:00 AM Monday, July 14, 2008. For reference, both Market impacting SIRs and Internal ERCOT SIRs with no Market impact are included on the attached document. 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: * 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/> . JA/CD