Hello,
We've recently upgraded from BI 4.1 SP01 Patch 5 to BI 4.1 SP04 Patch 2.
When exporting larger datasets from AOLAP based on a sap bw 7.4 Patch 8 bex query, resulting in greater than 250K cells in XLSX, performance is very poor.
Before the upgrade, we could export 1m cells in under 40 seconds. Now the same query's are taking over 8-10 minutes to export. The query itself runs between 1-2 minutes. And response is fairly quick to navigate pages/scroll.
In transaction sm50, we can see that there is communication between BI and BW during the entire process of export. It appears to not be using cache and is rerunning the entire query.
We see the following programs being utilized by BW during the export process
CL_RSMD_RS_READ_MDATA
SAPMSSY1
SAPLSM02
Has anyone else encountered a similar issue?