"row text contains" search on IR slow

I have IR reports that can potentialy return lots of rows. The IR usually returns in < 1 second. I am seeing major performance issues if the user enters some text in the search bar (which add the fiter "row text contains" to IR). This is making the IR take over 20 minutes to return in some instances (depending on previous filters chosen). I know I can disable the search in the IR properties, but
I was wondering if anyone seen issues with this and if so what did you do to rectify?
Thanks

My DBA has, but I do not think his suggestion is valid. He mentions this is do to an index on 3 text fields that contain (last_name,forst_name,id) and I should remove histograms for that column. tried that and it still takes just as long:
execution plan
| Id | Operation | Name | E-Rows |E-Bytes| Cost (%CPU)| E-Time | OMem | 1Mem | Used-Mem | Used-Tmp|
| 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | | | 3262 (100)| | | | | |
| 1 | WINDOW SORT | | 63 | 28791 | 3262 (1)| 00:00:40 | 4096 | 4096 | 4096 (0)| |
|* 2 | COUNT STOPKEY | | | | | | | | | |
|* 3 | FILTER | | | | | | | | | |
|* 4 | HASH JOIN OUTER | | 63 | 28791 | 3262 (1)| 00:00:40 | 221M| 7439K| 202M (1)| 38912 |
| 5 | NESTED LOOPS OUTER | | 63 | 26523 | 3204 (1)| 00:00:39 | | | | |
| 6 | NESTED LOOPS OUTER | | 63 | 24192 | 3197 (1)| 00:00:39 | | | | |
| 7 | NESTED LOOPS | | 63 | 21861 | 3194 (1)| 00:00:39 | | | | |
| 8 | NESTED LOOPS | | 61 | 14640 | 96 (0)| 00:00:02 | | | | |
|* 9 | HASH JOIN OUTER | | 11 | 1551 | 9 (12)| 00:00:01 | 12M| 2004K| 16M (0)| |
| 10 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| STU_BASE | 11 | 1155 | 6 (0)| 00:00:01 | | | | |
|* 11 | INDEX RANGE SCAN | STU_BASE_I2 | 1 <<<<<<<############################ THIS IS PART/ALL OF THE PROBLEM
| 12 | TABLE ACCESS FULL | ETHNIC | 8 | 288 | 2 (0)| 00:00:01 | | | | |
| 13 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | STU_YEAR | 6 | 594 | 8 (0)| 00:00:01 | | | | |
|* 14 | INDEX RANGE SCAN | STU_YEAR_I | 6 | | 2 (0)| 00:00:01 | | | | |
| 15 | INLIST ITERATOR | | | | | | | | | |
| 16 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | STU_SCHOOL | 1 | 107 | 51 (0)| 00:00:01 | | | | |
|* 17 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | STU_SCHOOL_I | 1 | | 49 (0)| 00:00:01 | | | | |
| 18 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | SPECIAL_ED | 1 | 37 | 1 (0)| 00:00:01 | | | | |
|* 19 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | PK_SPECIAL_ED | 1 | | 0 (0)| | | | | |
| 20 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | HOMEROOM | 1 | 37 | 1 (0)| 00:00:01 | | | | |
|* 21 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | PK_HOMEROOM | 1 | | 0 (0)| | | | | |
| 22 | TABLE ACCESS FULL | GRADE_LEVEL | 14199 | 499K| 57 (0)| 00:00:01 | | | | |
and the execution plan at line: 11 is using the index: STU_BASE_I2
and that index is
CREATE INDEX "SIS_EXPRESS"."STU_BASE_I2" ON "SIS_EXPRESS"."STU_BASE" ("LAST_NAME", "FIRST_NAME", "STUDENT_ID")
you did a "wildcard" search for these columns, but the execution plan says
it is expecting 1 row, this is due to the histograms.
The bind variables show
:APXWS_EXPR_1 "%" >>>lastname
:APXWS_EXPR_2 "%" >>>firstname
:APXWS_EXPR_3 "%" >>>studentid
Try removing the histograms on columns last_name, first_name, and student_id of the stu_base table.

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