BEx Analyzer 3.1 Workbook Performance

Hi SAP Gurus,
I have to evaluate the performance of BEx Workbook in SAP BW 3.1. Some of the CCA Workbooks takes 1 hour to load. As I know RSRT can use to evaluate the query performance and RSTT is use for workbook trace in BI 7.0 but how can i evaluate the performance of BEx Workbook in SAP BW 3.1. All kind of help will be appreciated.
Thanks in Advance to All.

Hi,
kindly refer to below SAP notes
Note 1150242 - Improving performance/memory in the BEx Analyzer
Note 1101143 - Collective note: BEx Analyzer performance
Note 1229206 - Front end check tool SAPBExC.xla (BW 3.x and BI 7.x)
hope it helps you
regards
laksh

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1. Investigated the security roles, seems like that is not the issue.
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User specific personalization is retrieved before displaying the input variables. That might be a possibility, but hard to see it making such a difference. Do you always try the sequence of User A, then User B, or have you confirmed that when you start with User B, it is quick, and tehn slow whne trying User A?
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Some info on Personalization for the Help pages.
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Use
This function allows users to fill variables with user-specific values, to save user-specific accesses to BI objects for the history view in the BEx Open dialog box, and to save user-specific start views for Web applications.
Integration
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Please go through the below doc for creating Workbook in Bex Analyzer
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The steps i am taking to reproduce this error are
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SAP GUI 7.10 Patch level 16
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Windows XP/Windows 7 (have tried with both)
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I have noticed that this option is not checked also when i create and save a new workbook using the 'Open query' as opposed to the 'insert analysis grid' option. But workbooks created using the 'Open Query' method still work despite this.
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