****************************************************************************************** EXTERNAL email. Please be cautious and evaluate before you click on links, open attachments, or provide credentials ****************************************************************************************** NOTICE DATE: April 3, 2014 NOTICE TYPE: M-B031414-02 Release - Retail/Wholesale SHORT DESCRIPTION: Reminder - Implementation of market-facing changes for April 2014 INTENDED AUDIENCE: ERCOT Market Participants DAYS AFFECTED: April 13-18, 2014 LONG DESCRIPTION: ERCOT will be implementing a number of market-facing changes in the production environment on April 13-18, 2014. Please see the attached spreadsheet for the description and estimate of the release date for each change. ERCOT will also implement the PR0047-01 CMSDK/MIR Replacement project during this release week. Please refer to Notice M-B021914-01 sent on February 19, 2014 and Notice M-B021914-02 sent on March 17, 2014 for details. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: ERCOT may experience intermittent service interruptions during the implementation period. The systems include, but are not limited to: * Market Participant notifications * Outage Scheduler User Interface o During this outage, please use https://mis.ercot.com/osrui/osrui/Summary.action to directly access the Outage Scheduler * Market Management System User Interface o During this outage, please use https://mis.ercot.com/mmsui/mmsui/displayTradesLanding.action to directly access the Market Manager * Market Participant Identity Management (MPIM) * Components of the ERCOT Market Information System (MIS) including: o Report publishing to, and retrieval from, the MIS o Current Day Reports (CDRs) without retry functionality may not be rerun for the missed postings during the outage o MIS and ERCOT.com dashboards and search functionality * Components of the External Web Services (EWS) may be intermittently unavailable * Net Dependable Capability and Reactive Capability Systems (NDCRC) Information on upcoming releases can be found on the ERCOT Multi Year Project Priority List (PPL)<http://www.ercot.com/services/projects/>. 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]>. If you are receiving email 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. dg