Performance - Integration SAP BW - Business Objects XI 3.1

Hi to all,
I have some performance problems when I create a report with almost 210K rows at 10 minutes.
I don't understand what solutions I have to set in my bex query in order to make it more slow. I suspect in fact that a lot of time is spend when the system read the master data (in my bo query I include some attribute of the characteristics).
I add that I read the data from an ODS and I don't have restriction into the key figure level or structures.
All characteristics are selected as free characteristics and all key figures are selected in the columns.
How can I test the improvement and different setting in order to accelarate my query ?
Thank'you in advance!
Edited by: Duilio Paolini on Nov 22, 2010 4:37 PM

Hi,
could you provide more details to the following questions:
- which products from SAP BusinessObjects are you using ?
- which release of those products - including service packs - are you using ?
- what performance do you see when you execute the query in transaction RSRT ?
When you execute the query in transaction RSRT remember that all elements from your BusinessObjects report need to be in the rows to achieve a comparable result.
Ingo

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