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The Board of Trade of Clearing Corporation will begin providing test information on portable media (e.g. CD or diskette) that firms can use to test their disaster recovery procedures. Trade information including a/c/e trades, give-up allocations and claims and SLEDS legs from a selected business day will be saved and offered to the clearing members in one of several back-up media of their choice. Firms will be required to indicate what data they wish to receive and on what type of media. Trade data will be provided in the TREX record format. Portable media disaster recovery testing will be available on a quarterly basis. The first quarterly test will be offered for the business day of Wednesday, April 17, 2002. In order to participate in this quarterly test, firms are required to complete and turn in the attached request form to the Business Systems Group no later then Monday, April 15, 2002. The test data from April 17 will be available for pick-up at the Clearing Corporation by participating firms on Tuesday, April 23. The following portable media can be used for DR testing • 3490 Cartridge, must be provided by the firm. • PC Diskette 3.5” HD, will be provided by the Clearing Corporation. • Compact Disk Recordable (CD-R), will be provided by the Clearing Corporation. The formatting and labeling is as follows: 3490 Cartridge: • Firm must provide 3490 cartridge. • Firm to provide outside label specifying firm name, number, contact person and phone number. • Clearing Corporation to provide outside label specifying trade date, block size, record length and record count. • The cartridge tape will be non-labeled. • Record length will be greater than or equal to184 bytes. • Block size will be a multiple of the record size. • Record format will be fixed block. PC Diskettes and CDs: • Clearing Corporation to provide outside label specifying firm name and number, trade date, block size, record length and record count. • Record length greater than or equal to184 bytes. • File format should be ASCII text. Those firms wishing to participate will need to fill out the attached forms and return them to the Business Systems Group by April 15, 2002. When retrieving the data from the diskettes/ CDs, all files may be found in the folder entitled with the firms’ clearing number. All files will be in the format specified above and each trade type will have its own specific file. Below is a list of the possible file names and what they contain: ETSACE.TXT = a/c/e trades GIVEUPS.TXT = Give-up trades OTISMQM.TXT = firm entered trades OTISTRADES.TXT = OTIS® trades OTISBOTH.TXT = Both firm entered and OTIS entered trades SLEDS.TXT = SLED’s ACT.TXT = ACT™ trades If a file does not exist on the media, there were no trades available to copy for the business day requested. Should you have any questions, please call or e-mail one of the following Business Systems Analysts:
Request Form for Portable Media Test DR test data from business dated April, 2002. Please select one of the media types and the trades required and fax this form to BSG at (312) 786-0152 or send an email to bsg@botcc.com. The Clearing Corporation will supply CDs and PC diskettes. Firms selecting 3490 cartridge as their media type must supply one to clearing for the test. Select type of media (one allowed per firm):
Select types of trade’s data:
Please note: In order to ensure a successful test experience, the Clearing Corporation requires these forms to be completed and returned by April, 15, 2002. It is assumed that all data selected will be on one type of media. If firms wish to receive test data on more than one type of media, another form must be completed. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
