Hi there
At the moment we have a very unhappy customer who says their portal is running too slow.
We have looked at various areas to try and speed things up, with the following observations:
1. Certain reports can take around 50 seconds to be displayed in the portal
2. The same report, when accessed directly through a browser, takes 30 seconds to load
3. The same URL, just cleared of the unnecessary extra bits, and the report takes 15 seconds to load
I have repeated this on numerous occassions, and in different orders of execution, so I don't believe that caching has that much to do with things.
As an example, we have a Sales Overview iview. It has been created in the PCD as a BW Report iView, and I specify the template_id = XXRX1P_SA_010.
The URL that is generated for this iview ends up being
If I take the above URL, open a new IE window, paste in the above URL and execute the report, it executes faster than accessing through the portal.
Now I understand that portal needs to load navigation etc., but from my observations, the navigation gets handled within 5 seconds, so I don't understand why it takes so much longer for the content area to be refreshed.
In addition, if I now take that URL, and strip off all the parameters to leave only the templateID in the URL, then I can run the report in 7 seconds, or about 15 seconds in the portal.
http://bwprod.XXX.co.za:8000/sap/bw/BEx?template_id=XXRX1P_SA_010
So, the one option for us to go through our entire PCD, and recreate every BW iview as a URL iview. This will work, and will greatly increase the speed, and the client will be happy, but I am still confused as to why this should be happening.
Anybody have valuable input for me?
Regards,
Andrew Lewis