Re: Breakdown in TS8 order execution

["JHP" <jan4123@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks to all.
Jan Philipp

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis Todd" <dennistodd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'JHP'" <jan4123@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 9:06 PM
Subject: RE: Breakdown in TS8 order execution


> Jan,
>
> You may have seen this from TradeStation:
>
> TradeStation Order Execution Network Status Message
>
> Today beginning at approximately 8:00 a.m. ET, the TradeStation Order
> Execution Network experienced a problem where our primary data center's
> primary power distribution unit (PDU) failed.  This ordinarily would 
> trigger
> a seamless and functionally transparent failover to the data center's 
> backup
> PDU; however the backup PDU failed causing the outage. Once the scope of 
> the
> problem was clear, we immediately commenced our procedure to fail over to
> our Order Execution Network's backup data center.  During this process, we
> encountered unforeseen issues in attempting to bring the backup Order
> Execution Network online and were also unable to update the network status
> page.  These issues extended the length failover process, and the outage.
> The Order Execution Network began accepting logons and new orders at
> approximately 9:32 a.m. ET.
>
> We are working with our primary data center to make certain that they take
> the necessary steps to ensure that this will not happen again.
>
> We have thoroughly diagnosed the issues we encountered during the failover
> process and have identified several proactive and reactive procedures and
> systems that can be implemented to ensure that future Order Execution
> Network failovers will not encounter the same issues or delays.
>
> Thank for your continued loyalty,
> The TradeStation Team
>
> Dennis Todd
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: JHP [mailto:jan4123@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 10:08 PM
> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Breakdown in TS8 order execution
>
> Has anybody daytraded EU futures Tue,12/4, from 7:47AM CT during the nxt
> hour or two using TS8 order execution, or there was a breakdown and orders
> were rejected?
> Jan Philipp