benchmark fyi . . . according to jeff , by the end of today the only position that will require manual adjustment is an im canada position ( 60 k ' s ) that will be fixed next monday when kam keiser goes back to calgary . everything else is now automatically feeding to the grms system ( and var calculations ) without human intervention . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - forwarded by brent a price / hou / ect on 06 / 13 / 2000 10 : 20 am - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - enron north america corp . from : jeffrey c gossett 06 / 13 / 2000 04 : 01 pm to : steve jackson / hou / ect @ ect , michael e moscoso / hou / ect @ ect cc : brent a price / hou / ect @ ect subject : benchmark steve - mike asked me to send him a list of what we had done to improve the top - level adjustments on the benchmark . here are the things which we discussed earlier . mike - let me know if you need anything else . we have lowered the number of top - level adjustments substantially this week . we have taken several steps in order to achieve this . 1 . we had to adjust formatting in all text files which go into grms . 2 . we are using a flip - out book for all canadian deals done with the u . s . office so that canadian positions are pulling in correctly . 3 . we had to adjust many book names in order that grms would pull the books into the system . 4 . we had to change region codes in the system so that grms would pull in more than one book per region . issues remaining : intra - month canada chicago storage and intra - east intra - month canada - we have a risk person from the u . s . office going to canada on monday to fix their problems . chicago - will be fixed by the end of the day . system is looking for the wrong portfolio code . storage and intra - east - also will be fixed by the end of the day . overide books need to be set up . thanks jg