NOTICE DATE:  April 30, 2012
NOTICE TYPE:  M-B043012-01 Outage - Retail/Wholesale
SHORT DESCRIPTION:  Planned system maintenance with impacted services
INTENDED AUDIENCE:  ERCOT Market Participants
DAY AFFECTED:  May 3, 2012, 16:30 - 21:30 CDT
LONG DESCRIPTION:  ERCOT will be performing planned system maintenance of the Market Information System (MIS), Current Day Reports (CDR), and Market Information Repository (MIR) databases and applications on May 3, 2012, within a maintenance window of 16:30 - 21:30 CDT.
During this outage window, Market Participants may experience intermittent issues for approximately two hours with the following services:
*         Market submissions and requests via WebServices, Market Manager and Outage Scheduler
*         Report publishing to the ERCOT MIS
*         Downloading of extracts and reports from MIS and WebServices.
During the outage, please use the following URLs to directly access the Market Manager and Outage Scheduler:

*         https://mis.ercot.com/mmsui/mmsui/displayTradesLanding.action

*         https://mis.ercot.com/osrui/osrui/Summary.action.
Note that the two hour outage is scheduled to begin at approximately 16:30 CDT; however, this start time may be delayed depending on the current system conditions.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:  Reports will be rerun and reposted as applicable. The MIS Dashboards and ERCOT.com price displays will not be populated with data during this timeframe.
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 email at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.

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