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]>.

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