NOTICE
DATE: May 15, 2009
NOTICE
TYPE: M-A041609-03 REMINDER: Release - Retail
SHORT
DESCRIPTION: ERCOT has an on-cycle Retail Release planned for 12:00
PM Saturday, May 16, 2009 through 12:00 AM Monday, May 18, 2009.
INTENDED
AUDIENCE: All Market Participants
DAY
AFFECTED: 12:00 PM Saturday, May 16, 2009 through 12:00 AM Monday,
May 18, 2009
LONG
DESCRIPTION: ERCOT has an on-cycle Retail Release scheduled from
12:00 PM Saturday, May 16, 2009 through 12:00 AM Monday, May 18, 2009 to implement
PR 80040_01.
PR
80040_01 implements recommended best practices for integration between
Enterprise Application Interface (EAI) servers and the Customer Registration
application in an effort to improve stability in transaction processing as well
as improve EAI server notifications and alerts.
In
addition, there is one (1) market impacting SIR and two (2) non-market
impacting SIRs that will be implemented during this release. For reference,
these SIRs are included in the attachment.
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
·
MarkeTrak - https://marketrak.ercot.com:8443/tmtrack.dll?
·
TCR - https://tcr.ercot.com
·
Texas Renewables – 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
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Subject: M-A041609-02 REMINDER/UPDATE: Release - Retail 12:00 PM
Saturday, May 16, 2009 through 12:00 AM Monday, May 18, 2009
NOTICE
DATE: May 6, 2009
NOTICE
TYPE: M-A041609-02 REMINDER/UPDATE: Release - Retail
SHORT
DESCRIPTION: ERCOT has an on-cycle Retail Release planned for 12:00
PM Saturday, May 16, 2009 through 12:00 AM Monday, May 18, 2009.
INTENDED
AUDIENCE: All Market Participants
DAY
AFFECTED: 12:00 PM Saturday, May 16, 2009 through 12:00 AM Monday,
May 18, 2009
LONG
DESCRIPTION: ERCOT has an on-cycle Retail Release scheduled from
12:00 PM Saturday, May 16, 2009 through 12:00 AM Monday, May 18, 2009 to
implement PR 80040_01.
PR
80040_01 implements recommended best practices for integration between
Enterprise Application Interface (EAI) servers and the Customer Registration
application in an effort to improve stability in transaction processing as well
as improve EAI server notifications and alerts.
In
addition, there is one (1) market impacting SIR and two (2) non-market
impacting SIRs that will be implemented during this release. For
reference, these SIRs are included in the attachment.
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
·
MarkeTrak - https://marketrak.ercot.com:8443/tmtrack.dll?
·
TCR - https://tcr.ercot.com
·
Texas Renewables – 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.
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Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 10:18 AM
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Subject: M-A041609-01 INITIAL: Release - Retail - 12:00 PM Saturday, May
16, 2009 through 12:00 AM Monday, May 18, 2009
NOTICE
DATE: April 16, 2009
NOTICE
TYPE:
M-A041609-01 INITIAL: Release
- Retail
SHORT
DESCRIPTION: ERCOT has an on-cycle Retail Release planned for 12:00
PM Saturday, May 16, 2009 through 12:00 AM Monday, May 18, 2009.
INTENDED
AUDIENCE: All Market Participants
DAY
AFFECTED: 12:00 PM Saturday, May 16, 2009 through 12:00 AM Monday,
May 18, 2009
LONG
DESCRIPTION: ERCOT has an on-cycle Retail Release scheduled from
12:00 PM Saturday, May 16, 2009 through 12:00 AM Monday, May 18, 2009 to
implement PR 80040_01.
PR
80040_01 implements integration best practices recommended by Oracle in an
effort to resolve internal Customer Registration Database issues.
Implementation
of PR 80040_01 will also enhance the stability between Enterprise Application
Integration (EAI) servers and the Customer Registration Database as well as
improve EAI server notifications and alerts.
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
·
MarkeTrak - https://marketrak.ercot.com:8443/tmtrack.dll?
·
TCR - https://tcr.ercot.com
·
Texas Renewables – 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.
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