NOTICE DATE:  September 26, 2008 

NOTICE TYPE:  M- B091708-02 REMINDER:  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 

*        USA Functionalities 

*        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 <http://www.ercot.com/>  

*        MarkeTrak - https://marketrak.ercot.com:8443/tmtrack.dll
<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] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> .

 

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JR/DH/DP