A#	5724
P&S #:	5294
DATE:	December 1, 2003
TO:	ALL PARTICIPANTS
ATTENTION:	MANAGING PARTNER/OFFICER; OPERATIONS PARTNER/OFFICER; MANAGER P&S DEPARTMENT; MANAGER DATA PROCESSING DEPARTMENT
FROM:	Product Marketing and Development
SUBJECT:	NSCC TO PROVIDE TWO ADDITIONAL VALUES ON ITS NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE (NYSE) INTRA-DAY MRO

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In conjunction with the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), the National Securities Clearing Corporation will provide two additional values on its intra-day machine-readable output (MRO) for NYSE transactions during First Quarter 2004.  The two new values will be part of the existing “CAP ORDER Execution field”.  This field will be renamed “Floor Entered Electronic Order Identifier” to more clearly reflect all values. 

Participants are being notified in advance so they can prepare for this modification. NSCC will announce the exact implementation date in a subsequent notice.

The “Floor Entered Electronic Order Identifier” field is currently defined in position 365 on the NYSE Intra-Day Contract MRO (AutoRoute #02013036) as a 1-byte alpha/numeric field, populated with a value of ‘4’.

The modified NYSE Intra-Day Contract MRO will contain values 4, 5 and 6 for entries of Floor Entered Electronic Order Identifiers and will appear as follows:

Reference Material

Additional information regarding Floor Entered Electronic orders can be found in the NYSE Post Trade Notice “PT0100 Merged Order Log "Makes" and "Partials Enhancements” available at: http://www.nyse.com/pdfs/pt100-3.pdf

Contacts

Questions regarding this notice should be directed to your Relationship Manager, the Relationship Management hotline number/(212) 855-4155 or Victoria Perry at vperry@dtcc.com. 

Any questions concerning these new values should be directed to NYSE Post Trade Operations at (212) 656-5513.

Victoria Perry, Director

Product Marketing & Development