Control Compliance Suite for Windows: mosfield: Wnt.TextFileContent.TEXTFILENAME can't be wild-carded or matched by regex in standard checks.

Products

• Control Compliance Suite Windows

Issue/Introduction

When using the datasource "Text File Content" and in particular the field "Text File Name" - you want to wildcard the file name, either wildcard or use regex. This actually works when using a query but using the same logic in a check, the check (as part of a CCS standard) fails to find the files.

 

no error.

Environment

Control Compliance Suite for Windows 11.5 SCU 2016-1

 

Cause

Control Compliance Suite for Windows 11.5 SCU 2016-1 and earlier does not support wildcards or regex for datasource "Text File Content" and in particular the field "Text File Name" when used in checks.

 

Resolution

As of SCU 2016-2 you can use .* (dot star) as a wildcard (full regex is still not supported).

The following CCS check logic works:

Text File Line Contains 'abc' Where Text File Name Matches Pattern 'abc.*.txt' AND Text File Path Equal To 'c:\test' with Missing Data Outcome being 'Manual Review' and Multiple Data Operator being 'AND'

When that is run (using a system on CCS11.5 - SCU 2016-2) on the following set of files:

 Directory of c:\test

09/27/2016  02:34 AM    <DIR>          .
09/27/2016  02:34 AM    <DIR>          ..
09/27/2016  02:28 AM                 3 abc123.doc
09/27/2016  02:28 AM                 3 abc123.txt
09/27/2016  02:29 AM                 3 abc456.doc
09/27/2016  02:29 AM                 3 abc456.txt
09/27/2016  02:29 AM                 3 abc789.txt
09/27/2016  02:34 AM                24 abc999.txt
09/27/2016  02:29 AM                 3 xyz123.txt
09/27/2016  02:29 AM                 3 xyz456.txt
               8 File(s)             45 bytes

With various files having the pattern abc in it and some don't, a C-E-R job shows/reports on only those files starting with abc and ending with .txt, which is in line with: Text File Name Matches Pattern 'abc.*.txt'