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Hi Kirch

I don't think you "get" what the Third parties are complaining about here. YOur solution is to set up a workstation to automatically pull the reports and then have the data accessed there - Why? It makes no sense. (and I will tell you why)

Reynolds started by enforcing password complexity and expirys in an effort to (on the surface) maintain better security of the data housed in the DMS. Ultimately what they did with this is to make it more laborious and complex to automate simple data downloads by third parties. But it was seen as a logical security enhancement and nobody could say much. Months later they instituted captchas that required human intervention to proceed- this was blatantly targetted to third party data scrapes. Most recently they have introduced logic to lock out accounts that appeared to be used by third parties automatically on the dealers behalf, to ensure that there is no "unauthorized downloads of data"- again a blatant attack on third party downloads. Hell they dont even deny it, i am not sure why you do.

Now to your comment about downloading the data to workstation- all of the previous things i mentioned means that even a DEALER cant automate data dumps flawlessly, most do not  have the infrastructure or appetite to manage a task requiring so much intervention themselves. It is not the connectivity to the server that is the issue, its the blatant attempts to cripple valid third parties that is.