NOTICE DATE: June 22, 2010 NOTICE TYPE: M-A062210-01 INITIAL: Release - Retail/Wholesale SHORT DESCRIPTION: ERCOT has an on-cycle release planned for 12:00 Saturday, June 26, 2010 through 00:00 AM Monday, June 28, 2010. INTENDED AUDIENCE: All Market Participants DAY AFFECTED: 12:00 Saturday, June 26, 2010 through 00:00 AM Monday, June 28, 2010 LONG DESCRIPTION: ERCOT has an on-cycle release planned for 12:00 Saturday, June 26, 2010 through 00:00 AM Monday, June 28, 2010. During the outage, ERCOT will: * Complete the implementation of internal Project 90006 - Information Lifecycle Management (ILM). * Implement MarkeTrak changes * Configuration change in support of Meter Tampering Business Process (P.U.C. SUBST. R. 25.126) * Resolve defect for date field in Data Extract Variance LSE issue types * MPIM changes to resolve defects * CP EXTRACTS role to be added for CRRCP Org Profile. However, the role is not currently functional. Please continue to use the role CRR EXTRACTS until notified. * MPIM e-mail notifications will now contain DUNS numbers in the subject line. 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<http://www.ercot.com/> * MarkeTrak - 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]>. 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<http://lists.ercot.com/>. DP/JR