NOTICE DATE:  January 6, 2009

NOTICE TYPE:  R-A123108-02 - Update:  Extracts - Retail

SHORT DESCRIPTION:  Supplemental 867_03 activity reports were posted to affected TDSP/MRE FTP sites as of January 5, 2009.
INTENDED AUDIENCE:  TDSPs

DAY AFFECTED:  December 14 through December 30, 2008
LONG DESCRIPTION:  Supplemental 867_03 activity reports showing error codes 26 and 27 for the period of December 14 through 30, 2008 were posted to affected TDSP/MRE FTP sites as of January 5, 2009.

The naming convention used for the report name is as follows:
TDSP/MRENAME_867_NonIDR_Activity_20090105_Supplemental.csv

The summary line typically shown as the first line of the report was not provided for the supplementary 867_03 activity reports.

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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Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 1:13 PM
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Subject: R-A123108-01 - INITIAL: Extracts - Retail - NIDR 867_03 transactions receiving error codes 26 and 27

NOTICE DATE:  December 31, 2008

NOTICE TYPE:  R-A123108-01 - INITIAL:  Extracts - Retail

SHORT DESCRIPTION:  NIDR 867_03 transactions receiving error codes 26 and 27 were reported in the IDR 867_03 Activity Report instead of the NIDR 867_03 Activity Report.

INTENDED AUDIENCE:  CRs and TDSPs

DAY AFFECTED:  December 14, 2008 through December 30, 2008

LONG DESCRIPTION:  The Non-Interval Data Recorder (NIDR) 867_03 transactions receiving error codes 26 and 27 were reported in the Interval Data Recorder (IDR) 867_03 Activity Report instead of the NIDR 867_03 Activity Report.  Additional details about the error codes can be found on the ercot.com website at http://www.ercot.com/services/userguides/ under Retail and 867_03 Error Codes Table.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:  The root cause of this issue was related to the implementation of the 80028 Distributed Generation project. A variable for these codes specific to NIDR transactions was no longer being populated to include the codes in the NIDR 867_03 Activity Report. The null value for the variable caused the NIDR errors to be included in the IDR 867_03 Activity Report.

A code fix was implemented on December 30, 2008. As of today, December 31, 2008, the reporting is back to normal and the error codes are in the appropriate reports.

ERCOT will continue to work to compile the error codes 26 and 27 occurring from December 14, 2008 to December 30, 2008 and report them back to TDSPs in a consolidated report. An updated notice will be sent when the supplemental reports are available.

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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