11.1.1.3 Workspace report prompt delay

Running v11.1.1.3 on Linux RAC with Weblogic. Encountering slow performance when accessing a report with prompts via the workspace. When a report is selected using prompts for the 1st time in a new workspace session, we are experienceing extremely slow response times for the prompt window to be brought back. The next time a report is initiated, the prompt is returned very quickly probably due to some caching.
Has anyone else experienced the same behavior?

This is due to the RMI service that will populate the dimension members list.
I noticed that it's slow at our setup (Windows 2003 Server) as well.
Sascha.

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