Changes to Futures Hierarchy Structure

LIM will be changing the MIM hierarchy structure for futures data to organize the futures data by exchange instead of by commodity. Currently, futures data has the following organization in the MIM:

TopRelation:Futures:Currencies
TopRelation:Futures:ETFunds
TopRelation:Futures:Energy
TopRelation:Futures:Equitites
TopRelation:Futures:Financial
TopRelation:Futures:Foods
TopRelation:Futures:Grains
TopRelation:Futures:Industrials
TopRelation:Futures:Meats
TopRelation:Futures:Metals
TopRelation:Futures:MktIndices
TopRelation:Futures:Retired
TopRelation:Futures:options

Futures data will be organized by exchange:

  TopRelation:Futures:EXCHANGENAME

For example, the symbol "NG" will move from:

  TR:Futures:Energy:NG

to

  TR:Futures:Nymex:NG

This change will take effect: July 9, 2004. Note: This change was previously announced in the April 2004 LIM Data Notification.

Customers will not see any difference in symbols or columns, just the parent change in the hierarchy. The only likely impact would be if an XMIM query referred to the entire relation of the data in the old category path or any sub branch of the data. If queries refer directly to symbols, they will not be affected.

If you have any questions about this intended change or its impact, please contact our customer support desk at: +1.800.546.9646 (U.S) or +44(0)207.190.2946 (Europe) or email: support@lim.com.