APEX & BI Publisher - report column amount limit?

Hi all,
I try to extend reports in an apex application by exports to output formats
provided by BI Publisher.
All reports work fine except one report that contains 39 columns.
So I did several tests and found out that apex won't send report xml data
to BI Publisher server if the report contains more than 29 columns that
are marked to be included in export.
Everytime I call that report apex returns an "empty" http response with a header like this:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:33:00 GMT
Server: Server
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=test.xls
<pre>report error: ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: character string buffer too small</pre>
Content-Type: application/excel
Content-Length: 0
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
The error occurs independent on selected output format.
I am using apex version 3.0.1.00.08 (3.0.1 patch applied to 3.0 installation),
Oracle DB is 10.2.0.3/Linux + BI Publisher 10.1.3.2.1
Is this a known limitation or a bug?
Any hints are appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Matthias

Guys,
Were you able to solve the issue?
I have the same problem after upgrading from Apex 4.0.2.00.07 to 4.1.1.00.23, see here:
XLS download of interactive report - error after upgrade to apex 4.1.1
BIP Version is 11.1.1.5.0
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