CME Globex Notices: October 14, 2013

 CME Globex Performance Enhancements
Effective this Sunday, October 20 (trade date Monday, October 21), iLink order routing performance enhancements will be launched on the following CME Globex markets. In internal testing, iLink latency for order acknowledgements was improved 10-15%, and fills distribution was improved more than 30%. These enhancements are part of our ongoing efforts to provide best-in-class technology and service on CME Globex.

• CME FX Futures - tag 1300-MarketSegmentID=62
• NYMEX Options - tag 1300=56
• COMEX Options – tag 1300=56

Drop Copy Certification
Due to the upcoming  Mass Order Cancel functionality, all Drop Copy customers must complete a new Drop Copy certification by Friday, November 8, for the new outbound message. The new certification suites are now available in Autocert+.

Source IP Changes for BM&FBOVESPA and Mexder on the Market Data Platform
Effective Sunday, November 10 (trade date Monday, November 11), CME Group will be changing the multicast source IPs for the Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange (BM&FBOVESPA) and MexDer Mercado Mexicano de Derivados (MexDer) market data channels. If a firewall or network device is configured with the source IP information, please correct your configuration to use the entire range of eligible addresses. Port, multicast addresses, and source IPs for BM&FBOVESPA Market Data Platform are available in the config.xml file on the  FTP site. A new config.xml will be available for customer download in production starting Sunday, October 20.

These changes are currently available in New Release.

As a reminder, CME Group requires that customers configure servers to connect to the Market Data Platform ports and multicast addresses for each desired channel. CME Group does not recommend restricting data flow via the source IPs, as these may change without notice.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact your  Global Account Manager with any questions or concerns in the U.S. at +1 312 634 8700, in Europe at +44 20 3379 3754 or in Asia at +65 6593 5505. If you experience any connectivity issues,  CME Global Command Center in the U.S. at +1 312 456 2391, in Europe at +44 20 7623 4708 or in Asia at +65 6223 1357.

New User Defined Spread Combination Expiration Rules
Effective Sunday, November 10 and 17 (trade date Monday, November 11 and 18), the expiration rules for User Defined Spreads (UDS) combinations on CME Globex will be changed to better meet customers’ trading needs.

With this change, CME Globex will assign the expiration date and time as either the earliest leg expiration or the end of the current trading week, whichever occurs first. If there is a working Good ‘Till Cancel (GTC) order on the Combo after the close on Friday, the expiration will be extended an additional week. This extension will repeat as many times as necessary until the earliest leg expires. Tag 866-EventDate contains this expiration date and time in the Market Data Platform FIX/FAST Security Definition (tag 35- MsgType=d) message.

Currently, an options strategy remains an active contract on CME Globex for two weeks or until the leg with the shortest maturity expires, unless there is any activity during the week of expiration.

Please note: This change will not impact the expiration rules for the Covered, which continues to expire at the end of the trading date in which it has been created.

This launch will be phased in as follow:

This change is currently available for customer testing in New Release.

Detailed information including functionality and messaging for UDS Combos Expiration and Extension are available in the   Client Systems Wiki.

If you have any questions, please contact the  CME Global Command Center in the U.S. at +1 312 456 2391, in Europe at +44 20 7623 4708 or in Asia at +65 6223 1357.

KCBT Product Migration to CBOT
Effective Sunday, December 8 (trade date Monday, December 9), Kansas City Board of Trade (KCBT) products will migrate from a KCBT DCM (Designated Contract Market) to Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) DCM, subject to regulatory review and approval. The current governmental shutdown may impact the launch date.

These products will use the same Symbol (tag 55) and SecurityGroup (tag 1151) as they do today. With this change, the value in tag 207-SecurityExchange and Market Data Platform channels will be updated as follows:

These changes will be available in New Release for customer testing on Monday, October 28.

New CME Globex Market Data Protocol
CME Group is introducing Market Data Platform (MDP) 3.0, a low latency and direct data access solution designed to improve customers’ ability to process and act on real-time price information. The protocol production dates will be announced in future CME Globex and Market Data Notices.

MDP 3.0 includes:

• Simple Binary Encoding (SBE); replaces the current FAST compression model
• FIX 5.0 (SP2) Market by Price messaging formats
• Event-driven market price and trade information
• Enhanced market state dissemination
• Increased timestamp granularity
• Trade identifier on both market data and order entry messages

The  client impact assessment provides detailed functionality and messaging information.

A new MDP 3.0 certification suite will be available in AutoCert+. Customer systems receiving market data via CME Globex must complete this mandatory certification.

MDP 3.0 functional specification is now available  online. The functional specification provides the complete MDP 3.0 functionality details, whereas the client impact assessment outlines the differences in functionality between FIX/FAST and MDP 3.0.

New test versions of MDP 3.0 template and PCAP (Packet Capture) test files are currently available  online . The PCAP files will contain sample MDP 3.0 packets of Incremental Refresh (tag 35-MsgType=X) and Security Definition (tag 35 -MsgType=d) messages in binary format.

Please Note: These files are for customer testing only and are subject to change without customer notice.

Please contact your  Global Account Manager with any questions or concerns in the U.S. at +1 312 634 8700, in Europe at +44 203 379 3754 or in Asia at +65 6593 5505 for additional information.

 MDP 3.0 New Release Availability
Starting on Monday, November 11, MDP 3.0 will be implemented in New Release environment in  three phases. For each phase, specific MDP 3.0 channels and functionality will be available in the environment. The implementation will be cumulative therefore once a channel or type of functionality is available; it will remain in the environment.

The config.xml file will be available on Monday, November 4, 2013. With this release, CME Group will use new public multicast source IPs to the for MDP 3.0 channels in the New Release environment. Customers must configure their firewall or network device to include the entire range of eligible addresses.

If you have any questions, please contact  Certification Support for Electronic Trading (CSET) in the U.S. +1 312 930 2322 or in Asia at +65 6593 5593 for assistance.

CME Europe on CME Globex
Pending regulatory approval, CME Europe markets will be available via CME Globex for iLink order routing and market data on a launch date to be determined. The launch date will be published in the CME Globex notice.

Only non-US customers are eligible to trade on CME Europe. Eligible customers who would like to trade CME Europe products must establish all appropriate agreements and accounts to be authorized to trade CME Europe products and clear through CME Clearing Europe.

The launch includes the following impacts:

• New  futures calendar spread type
• New tag value to identify the exchange
• New products in FX Futures
• New market data channels to disseminate market data
• New streamlined Fix/Fast market data to publish block information

The  client impact assessment provides detailed functionality and messaging for customer systems interested in supporting CME Europe products via CME Globex.

Onboarding information is available  online.

A new CME Europe mandatory certification suite is currently available in AutoCert+. Customer systems that plan to support CME Europe via CME Globex must complete this certification.

The implementation is currently available in New Release for customer testing.

Please contact your  Global Account Manager for further information.

Kill Switch
Effective this Sunday, October 20, 2013, CME Group will introduce Kill Switch functionality to Risk Management Tools. In addition to kill and order cancel functionality that already exists at the exchange and firm level, Kill Switch is a GUI that is designed to allow firms a one step shutdown of all their CME Globex activity at the SenderComp ID level.

When the Kill Switch functionality is activated by the permissioned firm, all order entry is blocked and all working orders are cancelled for either a selected subset or all, of firm’s SenderComp IDs.

All subsequent Blocked Execution Firm order entries will be rejected with a  Session Level Reject (tag 35-MsgType=3) message and the accompanying text explanation.

All working orders will be cancelled with an  Execution Report (tag 35-MsgType=8, tag 39-OrdStatus=4) message and the following cancel type indicator.

Access to the Kill Switch functionality will be available to all current GC2 Risk Admins. Clearing Firms will have the ability to grant access to the functionality to their Executing Firms.

The Kill Switch functionality is currently available in New Release for customer testing.

DSF Access Manager
Effective this Sunday, October 20, 2013, CME Group will introduce DSF Access Manager, a new Risk Management Tool for mitigating delivery risk in the Deliverable Swap Futures (DSF) products. Beginning with the December 2013 contract, all new order entry will be prevented in the front-month DSF contract during the 7 calendar days preceding last trading day. In order to trade the front-month DSF contract during this period, customer accounts must be permissioned by their clearing firms through the DSF Access Manager.

If an unauthorized account submits an order inside the expiration window, CME Globex will send a  Session Level Reject (tag 35-MsgType=3) message and the accompanying text explanation (tag 58-Text = this account is prevented from trading this physically delivered contract 7 days before the last trading day).

The DSF Access Manager will appear as a new tab on the Risk Management Tools page and be available to all current GC2 Risk Admins.

All GTC/GTD orders entered into the system prior to the last 7 calendar days will not be impacted; they will continue to remain active orders.

The new functionality is currently available for customer testing in New Release.

Request for Cross by Trading Session
Effective Sunday, November 10 (trade date Monday, November 11), pending all relevant regulatory review periods, CME Globex will allow the Request for Cross (RFC) by Trading Session on the following Market Data Platform channels:

Please note: This change will not affect Ethanol option’s cross eligibility.

With this change in the Grain and Oilseed options markets, clients may only submit a  New Order Cross (tag 35-MsgType=s, tag 549-CrossType=3) during Non-Pit Trading Hours, Sunday - Friday, 19:00 Central Time (CT) to 07:45 CT. Customers can use tag 871-InstAttrbType=24 and tag 872- InstAttrbValue=2 in the Security Definition (tag 35-MsgType=d) message to identify products that are eligible for cross orders.

If a cross is submitted during Pit Trading Hours, CME Globex will send an  Execution Report Reject (tag 35-MsgType=8, tag 39-OrdStatus=8) message with the reject code (tag 103-OrdRejectReason = 7610) and the accompanying text explanation (tag 58-Text = RFC not allowed during RTH).

These changes are currently available in New Release for customer testing.

Detailed information including functionality and messaging for Cross is available in the  Client Systems Wiki.

If you have any questions, please contact the  CME Global Command Center in the U.S. at +1 312 456 2391, in Europe at +44 20 7623 4708 or in Asia at +65 6223 1357.

Mass Order Cancel Functionality on CME Globex
 

Effective Sunday, November 10 and 17 (trade date Monday, November 11 and 18), CME Group will launch Mass Order Cancel functionality to provide an efficient way to cancel all working orders in a particular market segment via a single request.

A new message type, Order Mass Action Request (tag 35-MsgType=CA), will be offered to cancel all working orders for a particular instrument, instrument group or market segment. To identify products within a Market Segment, a new  FIX/FAST tag 1300-MarketSegmentID will be added to the market data Security Definition (tag 35- MsgType=d) message in production. Templates for FIX/FAST messages will not be impacted.

This launch will be phased in on the following schedule:

• November 10
  • NYMEX metals, softs and alternative markets
  • COMEX futures
• November 17
  • All other markets listed on CME Globex

Detailed information including messaging impacts and launch schedules are available in the  Client Impact Assessment.

The Mass Order Cancel functionality is currently available for customer testing in New Release.

Certification via AutoCert+ is mandatory for iLink customers who wish to use Mass Order Cancel functionality. The new certification suite is currently available.

Please contact your  Global Account Manager with any questions or concerns in the U.S. at +1 312 634 8700, in Europe at +44 20 3379 3754 or in Asia at +65 6593 5505 for additional information.

Commodity Calendar Spread Option (CSO)
Effective Sunday, November 10 (trade date Monday, November 11), options on the following futures calendar spread will be listed for trading on the CME Globex, subject to regulatory review and approval. The current governmental shutdown may impact the launch date. .

Settlement prices will be published for the synthetic futures to support customer options pricing models.

These options will be available for customer testing in New Release on Monday, October 21.

These contacts are listed with, and subject to, the rules and regulations of CBOT.

Display Factor Changes for Henry Hub Futures
Effective this Sunday, October 20 (trade date Monday, October 21), changes tag 9787-DisplayFactor will be implemented for the following Henry Hub futures and future spreads.

These changes are currently available in New Release for customer testing.

These contracts are listed with, and subject to, the rules and regulations of NYMEX.

Delisting of Natural Gas (Henry Hub) Last-day Financial vs. Natural Gas (Henry Hub) Penultimate Financial Inter-commodity Spread
Effective this Sunday, October 20, (trade date Monday, October 21), the Natural Gas (Henry Hub) Last-day Financial vs. Natural Gas (Henry Hub) Penultimate Financial futures inter-commodity spread (tag-1151 SecurityGroup=HH, tag 55-Symbol=NG) will be delisted from CME Globex.

To facilitate these changes, customers are asked to cancel all Good 'Till Cancel (GTC) and Good 'Till Date (GTD) orders for the impacted spread after their close on Friday, October 19. After 16:00 CT on Friday, October 19, all remaining GTC and GTD orders for these products will be cancelled by the CME Group Global Command Center (GCC).

Commodity Calendar Spread Options Listing Cycle Expansion
Effective Sunday, November 10 (trade date Monday, November 11), the listing cycle for the following Commodity Calendar Spread Option (CSO) will be expanded as follows:

These changes will be available in New Release for customer testing on Monday, October 21.

These contracts are listed with, and subject to, the rules and regulations of CBOT.

 Energy Strips Change
Effective Sunday, November 10 (trade date Monday, November 11), tag 762-SecuritySubType for the following future strips will be modified from FS to SA.

These changes will be available for customer testing in New Release on Monday, October 21.

FTP Access via IP Address
Effective this Friday, October 18, 2013 the destination IP to access the CME Group FTP site via IP address 198.212.155.45 will be decommissioned. Firms must switch to IP address 167.204.41.33 to maintain their access to FTP. Customers currently accessing the FTP via IP address must make the change before Friday, October 18, to continue accessing the FTP.

Customers may also access the data on the public ftp website using   ftp://ftp.cmegroup.com/fix/Production/.

If you have any questions, please contact the CME Global Command Center in the U.S. at +1 312 456 2391 and ask for GSS at 312.456.2391.

 CME Globex Commodity Back Month Messaging Efficiency Program Exemptions
As a result of customer feedback, effective Friday, November 1, CME Group will promote back month liquidity in various commodity products by no longer including all contract months for Messaging Efficiency Program calculation purposes. The new rules for Messaging Efficiency Program calculation purposes will apply to the ZC, ZS and ZW product groups as follows:

• In Product Groups ZC & ZW, a total of 4 contracts are used in the calculation. The front three listed contracts will be included in the calculation as well as the closest July or December contract.
• In Product Group ZS, which includes only Soybeans as Soymeal and Soy Oil are not included in Messaging Efficiency Program calculations, a total of 4 contracts are used in the calculation. The front three listed contracts will be included in the calculation as well as the closest July or November contract.

 New Public Source IPs for Certification and New Release Environment
At customers’ requests to increase network flexibility, the Certification and New Release Environments will move from private to public source IPs. In preparation for this change, CME Group will be adding a new IP subnet on Friday, November 8, 2013. CME Group recommends that customers configure their firewall or network device to include the 69.50.112.0/24 subnet.

On Monday, November 10, 2013, CME Group will use new public multicast source IPs to the for   MDP 3.0 channels in the New Release environment. The public IPs for other components, including iLink, Drop Copy and FIX/FAST market data channels will be announced in upcoming CME Globex notices.

On Monday, October 21 CME Globex Services begin sending all existing CME CERTLink, London CME CERTLink, Cert VPN and Cert Data Center customers a sample configuration file. For question regarding the configuration file, please contact   Globex Services.

 CME Globex Disaster Recovery (DR) Failover
CME Group is committed to the protection of its members, employees and stakeholders and has a long history of successfully managing risk. In keeping with those traditions, CME Group has a comprehensive business continuity program in place. To ensure customer readiness CME Group offers CME Globex Disaster Recovery (DR) Failover testing, which will be held on Saturday, November 23.

The CME Globex DR Failover test is designed to ensure customers can successfully failover to the DR environment, send orders and fallback to the production environment in case of an emergency. Customers are required to register online and in advance to participate.

Complete information on the CME Group business continuity program, including Frequently Asked Questions and DR Client Impact Assessment, is available  online.

The CME Globex DR Failover testing will begin at 9:00 a.m. Central Time (CT) and conclude at 3:00 p.m. CT. This will be the first CME Globex DR Failover test which allows customers to test 3 different failover scenarios. A detailed timeline is available in the  overview.

For more detailed information on the CME Globex DR Failover testing, please contact your  Global Account Manager.