There have been instances where a customer name was submitted containing nothing but a comma in the EDI transaction. Because the Texas SET Guide describes the name field as being free-form Alpha numeric and between 1 and 60 characters, a value of a comma was accepted and passed to downstream market participants.
Reason:
This change control adds clarification to all name fields that the use of a comma is only valid when associated with a Customer name.
After implementation of this change control name fields populated with only a comma will be considered invalid and will be rejected by ERCOT and the TDSP.
Also included are updates to Change Control 2020-827 to add comma language to the new Power Outage Contact PER~PO