A#

5735

P&S #:

5305

   

DATE:

December 19, 2003

   

TO:

ALL PARTICIPANTS

   

ATTENTION:

MANAGING PARTNER/OFFICER; OPERATIONS PARTNER/OFFICER; CASHIER; MANAGER P & S DEPARTMENT; MANAGER DATA PROCESSING DEPARTMENT

   

FROM:

VINCENT MC DEVITT

   
SUBJECT: ELIMINATION OF BALANCE ORDER FILES AND REPORTS

FINAL REMINDER

The following AutoRoute products will be eliminated on Friday January 2, 2004:

AUTOROUTE ID FILE NAME
02080190 Non-CNS Receive & Deliver Balance Order Report- Print Image
02082195 Non-CNS Receive & Deliver Balance Order- MRO
02030162 Corporate Bond Balance Orders- Print Image
02032148 Muni-Bond Receive & Deliver file - MRO
02030146 Bond Receive & Deliver Tickets - Print Image

Participants must be prepared to start processing their Balance Order information from the enhanced version of the Consolidated Trade Summary AutoRoute # 02042354 (MRO) and AutoRoute # 02040353, which was implemented on July 25, 2003. These changes are described in NSCC's Important Notice A# 5482 P&S #5052 dated September 25, 2002. Please contact your DTCC Relationship Manager to stop receiving these 5 Balance Order files and reports as soon as you start using the Consolidated Trade Summary as your source for Balance Order information.

All of the CNS file formats can be obtained from NSCC's file format Web site http://formats.nscc.com under the CNS section. A copy of this Important Notice or any other NSCC Important Notice can be found at NSCC's Web site http://www.nscc.com in the Important Notice section. If you have any questions regarding these modifications, please contact DTCC Relationship Management at (212) 855-4155, or the undersigned at (212) 855-5694.

Vincent Mc Devitt
Manager, Product Management