Market  Data Advisory Notices
To Market Data Distributors
From Market Data Operations
Subject Attention: RLC Message Users: New Certification Environment and Maintenance Window Change
Notice Date 2007-03-26
Notice Number Q2007-083
Effective Date  

Effective today, CME® has implemented a new certification environment, that is “in addition” to our  existing New Release certification environment. The new certification environment mirrors our production environment for customer testing of all market data functionality and messaging and is designed to enhance the customer certification experience with application development, testing and certification.  As a reminder, the existing New Release Certification environment, is used solely for testing the next release of any “new” functionality that is scheduled to be implemented.

In conjunction with this implementation, modifications have been made to the certification maintenance windows, as follows:

  • Weekly Maintenance (Certification unavailable):  Tuesdays, 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. CT
  • Weekly Maintenance (New Release Certification unavailable):  Wednesdays, 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Central Time

Additional information on the new environment and the new AutoCert+ certification tool is available online at www.cme.com/cert.