Quest® COSO Compliance Report Pack 1.0 for Quest Knowledge Portal
Release Notes
Last revised on February 1, 2008
This Report Pack is intended to help financial organizations demonstrate to auditors compliance with the COSO framework (Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission) which is guiding companies through implementation of internal controls over financial reporting. The reports are designed for Quest Knowledge Portal which provides a consistent point of reporting across the Quest products.
Reports are generated on data collected by a number of Quest products, including:
Key features of Quest COSO Compliance Report Pack:
The following is a list of issues known to exist at the time of Quest COSO Compliance Report Pack 1.0 release.
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Feature |
Known Issue |
Change Request |
| General | If basic authentication is used in the SSRS connection settings (Reports and Report Server virtual directories connection properties), then Report Packs cannot be installed to that SSRS ("Access denied" error message appears). | CR0142484 |
| If you take a Repair action for a Report Pack in Add/Remove Programs, removed data sources are restored and assigned to the Report Pack reports (but not to models). To assign these data sources to the corresponding models, use the Change Data Source Wizard. | CR0191399 | |
| Some reports appear to be wider than the page because field width varies depending on field values. | CR0145120 | |
| For very large reports, the Print Preview page may not open, and the report may not print. | CR0139691 | |
| Page breaks in the online version of a report may not correspond to the page breaks in the printed version. | CR0139480 | |
| If large fonts are in use, the Report View page is displayed incorrectly (relates to cases when credentials to connect to a data source are prompted). | CR0131812 | |
| Search in report descriptions can be performed only through the first 512 characters of the description. | CR0168949 | |
| Japanese characters in the reports exported to PDF are not supported. | CR0191046 | |
| InTrust Reports | If you open a report and try to use the Customize Report View option, then in case you clear the View the report when customization is completed check box and close the dialog by clicking OK, changes will not be applied (no refresh will take place after you click Refresh, CTRL+Refresh, or View Report) |
CR0163972, CR0164807 |
| Configuration Baselining Reports | When viewed with Internet Explorer, some reports can exceed a page width. | CR0219269 |
| The Customize Report View option cannot be used with the charts. | - | |
| If a report was created with a cover page and saved as XLS file, the report header and description are not displayed in the file. | CR0224752 | |
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Reporter Reports
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| If a report was created with a cover page and saved as an XLS file, the report header and description are not displayed in the file. | CR0224754 | |
| When viewed with Internet Explorer, some reports can exceed page width. | CR0219269 | |
Some reports are not exported to PDF properly - extra page breaks appear within
the reports:
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CR0162746 CR0206740 CR0211751
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The Group Details subreport appears to be empty after you open it from a parent
report - this happens because no data on the corresponding group was found in
the database:
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CR0200894 CR0206743 |
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Distinguished Name is not converted properly to Canonical Name in the report if
Active Directory object name contains round brackets.
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CR0221872 | |
| The Customize Report View option does not work for the Extended User Information report. | - |
Before installing Quest COSO Compliance Report Pack 1.0 for Quest Knowledge Portal, ensure your system meets the following minimum hardware and software requirements:
Server side
| Platform | Intel x86, Itanium 64-bit |
| Memory | Minimum 512MB (1 GB recommended) |
| Hard Disk Space | Minimum 20MB for Report Pack |
| Operating System | Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Service Pack 4 -OR- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with or without Service Pack 1 -OR- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 |
| Additional Software | Web server based on Microsoft Internet Information
Services (IIS) 5.0 or higher, with ASP.NET 2.0
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (Enterprise or Standard Edition) Reporting Services
Quest Knowledge Portal 1.0 |
Client side
| Platform | Intel x86 |
| Operating System | Microsoft Windows 2000 -OR- Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 1 or 2 -OR- Microsoft Windows 2003 with or without Service Pack 1 -OR- Microsoft Windows 2003 R2 |
| Additional Software | Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher |
This section contains information about installing and operating this product in non-English configurations, such as those needed by customers outside of North America. This section does not replace the materials about supported platforms and configurations found elsewhere in the product documentation.
This release is Unicode-enabled and supports any character set. In this release, all product components should be configured to use the same or compatible character encodings and should be installed to use the same locale and regional options. This release is targeted to support operations in the following regions: North America, Western Europe and Latin America, Japan.
Release package contains the following:
To install the Report Pack, the following rights can be recommended for user account under which you will run the setup:
To install the Report Pack, take the following steps:
You can skip data source configuration in the setup; then you will have to configure your data sources later, as described in the Configuring Data Sources section of Quest Knowledge Portal Installation Guide.
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