EXHIBIT 99.181
SETZER, CHERYL
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FROM: dariush shirmohammadi
SENT: Tuesday, November 04, 1997 2:18 AM
TO: Jim Cribari; Jim Napier; Jim Robertson; Herb
Zimmerman; Terry McManus
CC: Andy Goletz; Steve Ingram; herb_zimmerman@oaot.com;
jim_napier@oaot.com%smtp
SUBJECT: Re: Note from Ziad on Variances
We managed to address/close most of these variances tonight. And should
be done with all the critical ones by tomorrow noon.
I think that the ISO/BBS folks are going to take it easy on us on the
Settlements subsystem. I negotiated a solution with them that should
let us off the hook, if we get the right resources from ABB to perform
some major bugs.
However, what surprised me tonight was the large number of SI to
Settlements data transfer errors. Energy schedules would not show up or
turn into A/S schedules, etc. I thought we had tested this path
carefully all of last week (Herb/Jim N. please confirm) . Tonight, I
was verifying the hand-shake between SI and BBS as a means of ensuring
(even showing off to ISO folks) the correct transfer of data between SI
and Settlements. Unfortunately this step turned mainly into an
embarrassing exercise. Thanks to Mel we climbed out of several jams
but the data transfer is still flawed. As it stands, ISO will take over
the machines around noon tomorrow.
Dariush
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Subject: Note from Ziad on Variances
Author: Terry McManus at PSCMerit6
Date: 11/2/97 11:55 PM
In addition to all outstanding Integration and ISST class 1 variances, the
following Integration and ISST class 2 variances must be completed prior to the
start of ODR scenario 3. ODR scenario begins at 6pm on Tuesday, 11/4. In order
to test these variances, they should be completed by noon on Tuesday, 11/4.
Those with "C" in the far left column have been prioritized as the most critical
class 2 variances.
Integration class 2 variances:
144 A resource was assigned to two SCs (ready for retest by ISO)
206 Midnight procedures not set up in DBMS_JOB (ready for retest by ISO)
221 DBMS_JOB submission script (ready for retest by ISO)
C 226 SI to BBS transfer (ready for retest by ISO)
C 236 Unable to purge HA schedules
243 SC specific event file for event notification to WEB (ready for retest
by ISO)
247 Ancillary services gen spin reserve bid template - validation
264 Oracle database privileges present security risk for SI (targeted
completion of 11/3/97)
C 285 ISO MKT INFO - UDC load forecast - needs pull down for UDC IDs
ISST class 2 variances:
3 DA preferred schedules error in SCWS
10 Bid flag changes as DA becomes HA
13 SCWS data needs to be cleared when resource associations are changed
15 BEEP core dump on SI (ready for retest by ISO)
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C 97&31 COI downrating transfer error / DPF is note using branch group
limits from OS
C 20 DPF convergence in the two--day forecast
C 21 Congestion management prices
25 Unit quality codes in BEEP do not appear to be correct
26 BEEP 5 minute ex-post pricing doesn't appear to be correct
C 27 CONG has a problem with calculating congestion zone prices
30 SI generation quantity validation error on resources
32 OS data entry problems
C 33 Network application controller (NAC) error
37 BEEP failure during real time processing (this variance has
not reoccured since approx. 14:30 on 11/1; will re-evaluate
status on 11/3)
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