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Form 2 & Form 2A - Major and Non-major Natural Gas
Pipeline Annual Report
Note: This also applies to Fom 3-Q - Comprehensive Quarterly Financial and Operating Report
Viewer - Instructions and Download
The public version of the Form 2/2A database is available for partial
or complete download to client sites and may be viewed with the
Form 2/2A Database Viewer software (see Downloads). The Database
Viewer will permit the
selection,
viewing and printing of any or all Form 2/2A submissions for
1996 through the last filing period. The filing deadline for both the
Form 2/2A Submissions is April 18th after the filing year. Some companies request a filing
date extension which results in a delay of their data appearing
in the Form 2/2A database.
Before downloading the Viewer Application (see
Downloads), print and read this page of instructions.
You will save yourself a lot of time by referring to this page first,
before contacting FERC with problem issues. Most problems will
involve Internet communication issues which are addressed below.
Of course, we make mistakes - and need to fix things on the server
or with the software, so we do not mind emails, questions, and
suggestions.
Downloading and Viewing the Form 2/2A Database
The public version of the Form 2/2A database is available for
partial or complete download to client sites and may be viewed
with the Form 2/2A Database Viewer. The Database Viewer will
permit the selection, viewing
and printing of any or all Form 2/2A submissions for 1996 through
the last filing period.
The resulting Form 2/2A Database downloaded to the local client may be manipulated
for specific reporting or analysis needs using Microsoft Visual Foxpro Version
6.0 and later (VFP 6.0) or commercially available reporting software such as
Crystal Reports or others that support the VFP 6.0 database container structure.
You may also use Microsoft Access (using appropriate ODBC Drivers) to access
the Form 2/2A database.
Depending on your browser, you can either download the installation file, or
run the installation from within your browser. In any event, the downloaded file
is named Form2v.exe and can be considered the Installation Disk(s)
for the Viewer Application. You must execute this file to install the Viewer
Application. Follow the instructions given during the installation process. It
will be easier for us to help you with problems if you use the default directory/folder
names for the software. The default for the viewer is C:\F2viewer.
The software should be installed on the workstation. The database may be installed
or copied on a network for multiple user access.
Once the application is installed on the client PC, it is accessed through the
Start/Programs menu in the FERC Applications Program Group. There are two sub-items
under this heading named Form 2 Data Download and Form 2 Data Viewer. You must
first use the Download application to obtain the database. Within the download
application, you should select the companies you are interested in and the filing
year. (You select multiple companies by highlighting them on the displayed list.
To highlight multiple companies, use the standard Windows selection technique
of ctrl key/left mouse click.) You have the option of selecting all respondents
(Form 2 and Form 2A Filers) for a particular filing year.
The download process may take a few minutes, depending on your connection speed
and the number of companies requested. When requesting one or more companies,
the server extracts the requested companies from our database and creates a small
database with just the requested companies. This database is compressed, sent
via Internet to your PC, and decompressed. All this takes some time. So, give
it a few minutes before you think something is wrong.
The more companies you select, the longer it will take to get the data. If you
want many companies, it may be quicker to download the entire database instead
of selecting individual companies.
When you use the Viewer, click on Company Selected to obtain a list of companies
download to your PC. Then, select the company you wish to view.
The downloaded information is not cumulative. When you download a new selection,
the previously downloaded data is replaced by the new download. (Of course, you
can always copy it to another directory if you wish to retain it.)
As an alternative, we have an FTP
site where you can download a compressed (zipped) copy of the database for
particular years. If you want the most current information, you might visit this
site just to check the dates on the files. When the date changes, we have probably
added more respondents, or made other corrections to the database. If you have
problems with this, contact your computer support personnel. They know all about
FTP and compressed files.
Download Problems
You should not experience much trouble downloading and installing the Viewer
application on your workstation. However, the component of the viewer
that provides the Listing of Available Companies - and downloads the database
may not work properly with your workstation or network configuration. In
the event that you cannot download data, it is suggested that you download the
entire database for the specific year you desire from our FTP
site. The downloaded file should be unzipped into the appropriate folder.
Then, start the Viewer and use Options/Change DB Location to point to the database
folder.
Download Problems - Potential Solutions
The Form 2 Viewer uses HTTP (to get the list of companies) and FTP Receive (to
download the selected database data) and notify you of availability of updated
Viewer software. These common Internet Communication Protocols may be blocked
by your Internet Firewall for security reasons. This will require intervention
by your computer or network support personnel. To assist in diagnosing this
problem, we make available an Internet Communications
Test Application - which you can download and run on your workstation. Please
see a description of this application below under Forms Communications Test
Application. Note that your workstation only needs to pass
the HTTP send/receive and FTP Receive tests. FTP Send is not necessary for proper
operation of the Form 2/2A Viewer.
The easiest and most effective solution is to ask your Firewall Administrator
to install a rule in the Firewall permitting HTTP Send/Receive and FTP Receive
from IP 208.207.43.25. This presents a minimal or non-existent
security risk since all communication requests are issued by the Client (your
workstation). The FERC Forms Server does not "push" unsolicited information to
your workstation.
Problem Reporting and Assistance
If you have any problems with downloading or using the viewer application, please
send an email describing the problem to FERC
Online Support. In order to help in diagnosing a problem, please attach
the file F2view.log to your email. The Viewer Application writes
little notes on how it is feeling about life on your PC to this log file. If
you don't attach it, we will send you a reply email asking for it. So, it just
saves time for all of us if you do it first off. This file is found in the c:\F2viewer folder.
If you see two files called F2view, and can't determine which is the log file,
attach and forward the smaller of the two files.
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