NOTICE
DATE: May 12, 2010
NOTICE
TYPE: M-A042210-02 REMINDER: Release - Retail
SHORT
DESCRIPTION: ERCOT has an on-cycle retail release planned for 12:00
Saturday, May 22, 2010 through 00:00 AM Monday, May 24, 2010.
INTENDED
AUDIENCE: All Market Participants
DAY
AFFECTED: 12:00 Saturday, May 22, 2010 through 00:00 AM Monday, May
24, 2010
LONG
DESCRIPTION: ERCOT has an on-cycle retail release planned for 12:00
Saturday, May 22, 2010 through 00:00 AM Monday, May 24, 2010
During
the outage, ERCOT will implement internal Project 90006 – Information
Lifecycle Management (ILM). ERCOT will be exercising the following
Protocol Requirements as part of the ILM project
–
Protocol Section 17. Market Data Collection and
Use
•
17.2.5 Data Retention
“The data stored in
the Data Warehouse and Data Archive shall be available online for four (4)
years from ERCOT’s creation or receipt of the data. Data passed to
the Data Archive will be stored by ERCOT for a total of seven (7) years.”
–
Nodal Protocol Section 17. Market Monitoring and
Data Collection
<
note: effective with Nodal go-live>
•
17.2.5 Data Retention
“Data stored in the Data Warehouse and Data Archive must be available
online for four (4) years from ERCOT’s creation or receipt of the
data. Data stored in the Data Archive must be maintained by ERCOT for a
total of seven years from ERCOT’s creation or receipt of the data.”
Following
are some changes that will be visible to Market Participants utilizing Texas
Market Link (TML) Find Transaction functionality:
In
addition to the above changes to TML, the reprocessing of retail transactions
by ERCOT will be limited to one year from the original processing date.
There
are no SIRs being implemented in this release.
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 submitted via EDI
(Electronic Data Interchange) and AMS LSE files.
· 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.
JR/DP
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Subject: M-A042210-01 INITIAL: Release - Retail - 12:00 PM Saturday, May
22, 2010 through 12:00 AM Monday, May 24, 2010
NOTICE
DATE: April 22, 2010
NOTICE
TYPE:
M-A042210-01 INITIAL: Release
- Retail
SHORT
DESCRIPTION: ERCOT has an on-cycle retail release planned for 12:00
PM Saturday, May 22, 2010 through 12:00 AM Monday, May 24, 2010.
INTENDED
AUDIENCE: All Market Participants
DAY
AFFECTED: 12:00 PM Saturday, May 22, 2010 through 12:00 AM Monday,
May 24, 2010
LONG
DESCRIPTION: ERCOT has an on-cycle retail release planned for May 22,
2010 through 12:00 AM Monday, May 24, 2010.
During
the outage, ERCOT will implement internal Project 90006 – Information
Lifecycle Management (ILM). ERCOT will be exercising the following
Protocol Requirements as part of the ILM project
–
Protocol Section 17. Market Data Collection and
Use
•
17.2.5 Data Retention
“The data stored in
the Data Warehouse and Data Archive shall be available online for four (4)
years from ERCOT’s creation or receipt of the data. Data passed to
the Data Archive will be stored by ERCOT for a total of seven (7) years.”
–
Nodal Protocol Section 17. Market Monitoring and
Data Collection
<
note: effective with Nodal go-live>
•
17.2.5 Data Retention
“Data stored in the Data Warehouse and Data Archive must be available
online for four (4) years from ERCOT’s creation or receipt of the
data. Data stored in the Data Archive must be maintained by ERCOT for a
total of seven years from ERCOT’s creation or receipt of the data.”
Following
are some changes that will be visible to Market Participants utilizing Texas
Market Link (TML) Find Transaction functionality:
In
addition to the above changes to TML, the reprocessing of retail transactions by
ERCOT will be limited to one year from the original processing date.
There
are no SIRs being implemented in this release.
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 submitted via EDI
(Electronic Data Interchange) and AMS LSE files.
· 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.
DP/DH