How do you use Data Interchange

AEMO recommends participants set up a standard configuration of Data Interchange, which is a single data feed, from one Participant ID folders on the Participant File Server, to a single participant database. For example, you can have your pre-production environment connected to the Participant File Server pre-production environment and your production environment connected to the Participant File Server production environment.

Do not point your pre-production environment to the AEMO production environment or vice versa, under any circumstance.

AEMO provides the software to participants and each participant is responsible for setting up their own systems and satisfying their data requirements.

Participants need to decide if the complexity of using Data Interchange is a better business decision than using the simple AEMO Markets Portal web applications that require only a web browser, but provide a limited scope of data.

The main Data Interchange steps are:

  1. Participants decide what data they wish to receive using the Data Subscription web application in the Markets Portal. For help, see About Data Subscription.
  2. AEMO generates the data in structured CSV files, placed onto the Participant File Server. For help, see Connecting to Market Systems.
  1. The pdrBatcher and pdrLoader software on the participant-side replicates the data from the Participant File Server to participants' local DBMS. For help, see Participant Data Replication Batcher (pdrBatcher) and Participant Data Replication Loader (pdrLoader).
  1. Participants manage their local DBMS and the data feed. For help, see Participant Data Replication Monitor (pdrMonitor) and the Guide to Data Interchange.