Category: Update

TariffShark Team Successfully Tests Disaster Recovery Procedures

During the evening of April 23, 2013, the TariffShark team gathered in a conference room at the Links Technology headquarters in order to test our disaster recovery procedures.  In the event that our Tier 4 data center experiences an outage that makes the hosted TariffShark servers unavailable, we restore service to a secondary data center.  We test these procedures every 6 months as a service to our hosted TariffShark customers.

The test ran successfully in just under two hours.

If you’d like to learn more about Hosted TariffShark, please visit our website or contact sales.

FERC Posts Updated Validation Error Codes

On February 11, 2013, FERC staff posted a small update to the list of Validation Error Codes that the Commission provides on its eTariff webpage.  The changes are summarized below.

The most significant change was to error code 120 which used to read “For an Amendment Compliance Withdrawn or Motion filing Associated Filing Identifier cannot be a Report Withdraw or Motion filing” and now reads “For an Amendment Compliance Withdraw Report or Motion filing Associated Filing Identifier cannot be a Report Withdraw or Motion filing”.  Essentially, the Commission is clarifying that a Report-type filing (note the highlighted word) may not be associated with a Report-type, Withdraw-type, or Motion-type filing.

Mistakenly, error code 158’s description was a copy of 159.  Error code 158 has been corrected to read “If provided the tariff record’s Record Binary Data RTF file is not well-formatted”.

Finally, a typographical error was corrected in the description of error code 121.

If you have any questions relating to these changes or to Validation Error Codes in general, you may post them below or contact TariffShark Support.

TariffShark Hammerhead Now Available

Links Technology Solutions, Inc. is excited to announce the official release of TariffShark Hammerhead add-on product into the marketplace!  Building on the success of the original TariffShark released in 2010, LINKS built Hammerhead with new features, improved usability, and performance enhancements in mind.  Although the original TariffShark product will continue to meet all FERC regulations for eTariff filing, the Hammerhead add-on will make filing easier than ever.

Bob VanValkenburg, Vice President of LINKS and TariffShark Sales Manager touts Hammerhead as “the most complete eTariff filing solution in the industry today!”

If you are a user of the original TariffShark product, we encourage you to contact LINKS for a demo of Hammerhead and see for yourself why so many customers are adding Hammerhead to their core product.

If you’re not yet using TariffShark to meet your FERC eTariff obligations, we invite you to contact sales and ask for a demo of TariffShark with Hammerhead today!