We have had some challenges. Earlier when we were setting it up, a component called gateway, which runs in the DMV, was not working as expected. It was going down very often. That means most of our vendors were not able to connect using SFTP because that service was down. We had to put in a lot of monitoring to make sure if that goes down, there is some visibility instantaneously so that our system admins can go and do a restart. In addition, because it is a Java product, there seems to be a memory leak that causes system slowness and unresponsiveness at times. We had to introduce a weekly restart to flush out some memory. The restart process is still going on because we know that without that, we can't have a responsive system. These are the two things for MOVEit Transfer. Coming to MOVEit Automation, usually, when a file arrives, a job kicks in. We have jobs that look for a file, match the file, and move it to the destination. However, if a file doesn't come through at the expected time, such as on a Tuesday morning at 8:00 AM, because the job failed or somebody forgot to place that file, people want visibility into it. For this, currently, there are limited capabilities in MOVEit Automation. We can look for that error code, where it basically says that I didn't find any file to transfer. We are leveraging that capability and building some email system around it so that if that happens, we get to know, but when it comes to multiple jobs running on a particular day, such as on the 10th of every month, you get into complex scheduling. That's when this email system becomes ambiguous. Sometimes, it throws false alerts. MOVEit is not a notification system, but we expect more and better notifications. That would really add value. I would like to see connectivity to Google Cloud. At some point, it will come. They have been creating connectors for more products. Earlier, they had only Azure, and then they added AWS. Google Cloud Platform connectors are not there yet. I would like to see that capability. I would also like to see a capability where it can interact with message brokers. Currently, it can do file transfers, and it can do HTTP calls. That means you can invoke an API or download a file over HTTP or HTTPS protocol, but I would like to see it supporting the MQ protocol or AMQP. Those are some messaging protocols that will help it to become more feature-rich. We have some integrations where we have to connect to a queue, pull a message, and create a file. That capability is there in the IBM product, but I would like to see that capability built. If that capability comes to MOVEit, it would be fantastic.
