Changes to Content and Availability of EMTS Documents What are EMTS documents? • Documents are generated in EMTS to aid in your organization's internal recordkeeping and reporting. Why were the changes introduced? • Documents have grown in size as information has been added to them. • Number of available documents has increased with each EMTS release. • Frequency of document availability has increased to meet the needs of EMTS users. • EMTS retained each document that was generated. • System performance and database size are affected by the above and are unsustainable. What are the changes? Version 1.4 - Released June 29, 2011 • Created a new daily document - Transaction Status document - that contains transaction activity for a single day (i.e., yesterday's activity). For each organization it displays transactions submitted by that organization and transactions specifying that organization as the trading partner from the prior day. It also displays transactions that changed status on the previous day (e.g., if a pending trade was accepted yesterday, it will be displayed on the today's report). The document is produced once per day during the overnight document generation process. • Automatically unsubscribe organizations that fail to download documents for which they have subscribed after 22 days of inactivity. An email notification will be sent to users before and after the system performs this action. Users may re-subscribe to documents at any time. • Modified the Monthly Transaction History document to display transactions based on Transaction Status Date rather than Submission Status Date. This change ensures that transaction status changes occurring after the end of the month will be included in the Monthly Transaction History document. c/EPA United States EPA-420-B-11-030 Environmental Protection Agency August 2011 ------- • Required subscription to the Monthly Transaction History document for organizations that wish to maintain a historic record of transactions in EMTS documents. Then, for certain documents, purge all "3 per day," "daily," and "weekly" documents once the "monthly" Transaction History document becomes available. EMTS will retain Monthly Transaction History documents for a period of one year so that a complete set of documents exists for the most recent compliance year and a set for the current compliance year. Version 1.5 - Tentatively scheduled for release in December 2011 • Fully replace 3 per day, daily and weekly Transaction History documents with Transaction Status documents. EMTS will no longer produce "3 per day," "daily" and "weekly" Transaction History documents. The Monthly Transaction History document will still be available. • Match the amount of data pro vided in a document to the frequency of generation fo r that document. This change applies to the Completed Trade, Expired Trade, and Canceled Trade documents. For example, a "daily" Completed Trades document would contain one day's worth of data (e.g., yesterday's data). All "3 per day" documents would contain all trades completed that day up until the time when the document is generated. Questions? • Please send all questions to support@epamts-support.com. ------- |