NOTICE
DATE: September 17,
2008
NOTICE
TYPE: M- B091708-01 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
·
·
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
·
MarkeTrak - https://marketrak.ercot.com:8443/tmtrack.dll?
·
TCR - https://tcr.ercot.com
·
MOS, Scheduling API,
MOSTML, MOSPUBLIC, and Outage Scheduler will not be affected as there will be a
DNS failover from
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].
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JR/DH