NOTICE DATE: January 29, 2010
NOTICE TYPE: R-A012610-05 FINAL
– Retail Processing
SHORT DESCRIPTION: ERCOT experienced NAESB configuration
issues with a subset of Market Participants after the retail release on January
23, 2010. Vendor recommended changes were made to NAESB. All systems and transaction processing are successfully
reinstated.
INTENDED AUDIENCE: CRs and TDSPs
DAY AFFECTED: January 24, 2010 to
2:58 PM, January 28, 2010
LONG DESCRIPTION: ERCOT experienced NAESB
configuration issues with a subset of Market Participants after the retail
release on January 23, 2010. The majority of configuration issues were
resolved. ERCOT continued to work with the remaining impacted Market
Participants. ERCOT also engaged the vendor (Inovis) for additional
support. ERCOT received a recommendation from the vendor and recommendations
were tested in the Cert environment with multiple Market Participants
ERCOT completed installation of the recommended changes for the
scheduled emergency outage of our NAESB system at approximately 2:17 PM
Thursday, January 28, 2010 and verification was completed at 2:58 PM Thursday,
January 28, 2010. All systems and
transaction processing were successfully reinstated at that time.
During today’s conference
call ERCOT shared that it has identified approximately 700 files in which ERCOT
did not receive a valid 997 acknowledgement or a valid response transaction.
Those files will be submitted for reprocessing today. The transaction
count on those files is as follows:
TRAN
TYPE |
Count |
814s |
22976 |
867s |
14546 |
824s |
78774 |
Grand
Total |
116296 |
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: ERCOT
has completed creation of MarkeTrak issues for the impacted Market
Participants.
Those MarkeTrak issues will contain two files.
·
One file will contain transaction level detail
of the files sent to your organization.
·
One file will provide detailed service order
information for your service orders within the aforementioned 700 files.
Additional
details will be provided in the ERCOT IT Incident Market Notice Summary.
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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Subject: R-A012610-04 UPDATE - Retail Processing
NOTICE DATE: January 28, 2010
NOTICE TYPE: R-A012610-04 UPDATE
– Retail Processing
SHORT DESCRIPTION: ERCOT experienced NAESB
configuration issues with a subset of Market Participants after the retail
release on January 23, 2010. Vendor recommended changes were made to
NAESB. All systems and transaction
processing are successfully reinstated.
INTENDED AUDIENCE: CRs and TDSPs
DAY AFFECTED: January 24, 2010 to
2:58 PM, January 28, 2010
LONG DESCRIPTION: ERCOT experienced NAESB
configuration issues with a subset of Market Participants after the retail
release on January 23, 2010. The majority of configuration issues were
resolved. ERCOT continued to work with the remaining impacted Market
Participants. ERCOT also engaged the vendor (Inovis) for additional
support. ERCOT received a recommendation from the vendor and recommendations
were tested in the Cert environment with multiple Market Participants
ERCOT completed installation of the recommended changes for the
scheduled emergency outage of our NAESB system at approximately 2:17 PM and
verification was completed at 2:58 PM today, Thursday, January 28, 2010. All systems and transaction processing were successfully reinstated
at that time.
ERCOT has reprocessed files that
had a failed status. ERCOT continues to analyze the logs and will work
with Market Participants to reprocess files from archive as needed.
ERCOT will provide an update on a
conference call on Friday, January 29, see call information below.
As always, connectivity issues
such as NAESB or TML can be reported to the ERCOT Help Desk at 512-248-6800 or [log in to unmask] or to your ERCOT
Account Manager.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: ERCOT
will provide additional details as they become available.
ERCOT
has also scheduled a conference call for any additional questions concerning
this Retail Processing issue. The conference call details are as follows:
Teleconference:
1-866-469-3239
Meeting
number: 354 041 405
Conference Call
Date and Time: January 29, 2010 3:00 PM
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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Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 5:30 PM
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Subject: R-A012610-03 UPDATE - Retail Processing
NOTICE DATE: January 27, 2010
NOTICE TYPE: R-A012610-03 UPDATE
– Retail Processing
SHORT DESCRIPTION: As a result of this
weekend’s Retail Release, outbound files failed to be decrypted on the
recipient side for a number of files for a subset of Market Participants.
Market Participants who have not received a response to
their Move-In transactions are requested to submit Safety Net Move-Ins.
INTENDED AUDIENCE: CRs and TDSPs
DAY AFFECTED: January 24, 2010 to
present
LONG DESCRIPTION: As a result of this
weekend’s Retail Release, ERCOT continues to experience NAESB configuration
issues with a subset of Market Participants. The majority of
configuration issues have been resolved. ERCOT is in contact with Market
Participants still being impacted and is currently working with the vendor
(Inovis) for additional support. ERCOT has received a recommendation from the
vendor and recommendations are being tested in the Cert environment. For the
remaining impacted MPs, some of the files continue to fail and are being
requeued for processing at ERCOT.
Market Participants that have issues with decrypting files
are asked to open tickets with the ERCOT helpdesk by calling 512-248-6800.
Select option 3 for the helpdesk. Request a priority ticket.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: ERCOT
will provide additional details as they become 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].
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Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 5:16 PM
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Subject: R-A012610-02 UPDATE - Retail Processing
NOTICE DATE: January 26, 2010
NOTICE TYPE: R-A012610-02 UPDATE
– Retail Processing
SHORT DESCRIPTION: As a result of this
weekend’s Retail Release, outbound files failed to be decrypted on the
recipient side for a number of files for a subset of Market Participants.
INTENDED AUDIENCE: CRs and TDSPs
DAY AFFECTED: January 24, 2010 to
present
LONG DESCRIPTION: As a result of this
weekend’s Retail Release, ERCOT experienced NAESB configuration issues
with a subset of Market Participants and transactions.
The majority of decryption issues have been resolved and a
resolution is in progress for the remainder. Market Participants that continue
to have issues with decrypting files are asked to open tickets with the ERCOT
helpdesk by calling 512-248-6800. Select option 3 for the helpdesk.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: ERCOT
will provide additional details as they become 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].
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Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 12:58 PM
To: 1 ERCOT Retail Client Services
Subject: R-A012610-01 INITIAL - Retail Processing
NOTICE DATE: January 26, 2010
NOTICE TYPE: R-A012610-01 INITIAL
– Retail Processing
SHORT DESCRIPTION: ERCOT is currently
experiencing retail transaction processing issues for a small subset of Market
Participants and transactions.
INTENDED
AUDIENCE: CRs and TDSPs
DAY AFFECTED: January 26, 2010 to
present
LONG DESCRIPTION: As a result of this
weekend’s Retail Release, ERCOT is currently
experiencing retail transaction processing issues for a small subset of Market
Participants and transactions.
ERCOT is working to resolve this issue and is working with
the impacted Market Participants.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: ERCOT will provide additional details as they become
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].
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