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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Commission) is proposing to amend Commission Rule 1.35(a) to:  (i) provide that all records required to be maintained under this regulation must be searchable; (ii) clarify that all records be kept in a form and manner that allows for identification of a particular transaction, except that records of oral and written communications leading to the execution of a transaction in a commodity interest and related cash or forward transactions are not required to be kept in a form and manner that allows for identification of a particular transaction; (iii) exclude unregistered members of designated contract markets (DCMs) and swap execution facilities (SEFs) from the requirements to retain text messages and to maintain records in a particular form and manner; and (iv) exclude commodity trading advisors (CTAs) from the oral recordkeeping requirement.