NOTICE DATE: January 26, 2012 NOTICE TYPE: M-A012612-01 Outage Retail/Wholesale SHORT DESCRIPTION: Database degradation impacting EWS report retrievals INTENDED AUDIENCE: All Market Participants DAY AFFECTED: January 26, 2012 from 09:09 through 10:16 LONG DESCRIPTION: ERCOT experienced a database degradation within the reporting repository which resulted in a service degradation of the EWS. ERCOT will take an unplanned system maintenance outage beginning at 16:15 this afternoon in order to apply a patch to the reporting repository. During this outage window, Market Participants may experience intermittent issues for approximately 30 minutes with the following services: * Report publishing to the ERCOT MIS * Downloading of extracts and reports from ERCOT.com, MIS and WebServices * Market submissions and requests via WebServices, Market Manager and Outage Scheduler. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Additional communication will be sent when the maintenance activities have completed. 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. ad ############################ To unsubscribe from the NOTICE_RELEASE_WHOLESALE list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://lists.ercot.com/SCRIPTS/WA-ERCOT.EXE?SUBED1=NOTICE_RELEASE_WHOLESALE&A=1