November 2010 Release

Release Implementation

The Implementation Date for the November 2010 Release was Thursday 4 November 2010. All Configurable Items amended for the Release, including software systems and Code Subsidiary Documents, except any amendments for CP1325 became effective on this date.

All Configuration Items amended for CP1325, became effective on 1 November 2010.

Scope of the Release

Two Modifications and nine Change Proposals were approved for inclusion in the November 2010 Release.

Business Requirements Solution

The Business Requirements Solution (BRS) details the requirements and solution that will be implemented for changes within the scope of the November 10 Release.

Impact Matrix

The Impact Matrix lists all Code Subsidiary Documents and Configurable Items which are impacted by the Release and all CPs in the Release and shows which CP(s) impact them.

Key Dates

The following key dates have been identified:

Test Strategy

The Test Strategy specifies the tests, roles and responsibilities for the November 10 BSC Systems Release.

End-to-End Test Specification for Participants

The End-to-End Test Specification details the tests, roles and responsibilities for Participants.

Amended CSDs (Code Subsidiary Documents) and CIs (Configurable Items)

This section contains CSDs and CIs amended for the November 2010 BSC Systems Release.

CSDs and CIs awaiting approval or approved

Please note that we’ve amended the Interface Definition and Design (IDD) documents for CP1333 and P243/P244 separately. You can find the amendments for each change below.

Changes to PARMS Serials

CP1325 ‘Removal of Obsolete PARMS Serials’ goes live on 1 November 2010 in response to an industry review of the Serials in the Performance Assurance Reporting and Monitoring System (PARMS), which revealed that several Serials no longer provide meaningful metric data for Settlement Risks. Overall, there are 14 PARMS Serials which the Performance Assurance Board (PAB), PARMS review group and industry consultation respondents agreed are now obsolete, and are being removed as part of CP1325:

CP1325 changes the PARMS system so that files containing the above Serials will be rejected if they are received for Reporting Periods that fall beyond an ‘effective to’ date for that Serial. The ‘effective to’ date for all the affected Serials, in the table above, is 31 October 2010. Please remember this when you submit your PARMS data from 1 November. The last submissions for the 14 obsolete Serials is 20 working days after the October 2010 reporting period, so you must submit them by 5pm on 26 November.

For the October 2010 reporting period, you should report the affected t-1 Serials (NC03, HC02, NM01 and HM03) as normal. This means that for those instances where the start event is in September 2010, that are still pending by the end of October 2010, they should be submitted in November 2010. The PARMS system will not accept any more submissions for these four serials after the October 2010 reporting period.

For the November 2010 Reporting period onwards, you must submit the following Serials:

• For Suppliers – Data Provider Information(DPI) and SP04;
• For Supplier Agents – SP05, SP06, HM01, HM04, HM05, HM06, NC02, NM03 and NM04.

If you are a Supplier, you must amend your DPI files removingredundant Serials from the November 2010 Reporting Period. If you don’t do this you may incur SP01 Supplier Charges.

If you are a Supplier Agent, you must submit all Serials up to the October 2010 Reporting Period. From the November 2010 Reporting Period, you only need to submit the remaining Serials. If you do not do this, Suppliers may incur SP01 Supplier Charges.

Following the outsourcing of the operation of the PARMS system to Logica, the existing ELEXON email address for receiving PARMS submissions (parms@elexon.co.uk) will be withdrawn from 1 November. Any subsequent emails sent to that address will be rejected. Please redirect all PARMS submissions to parms@parms.bsccentralservices.com.