XML Publisher report in EBS - Parameter Form Problem

Hi,
XML Publisher is a very powerful tool for report developing.
In EBS, we have some efficient issue for showing the parameter form when submit a concurrent program.
If the report is D2K Report or PL/SQL script, when submit a request, it almost shows the parameter form immediately after entering the name of the concurrent program.
But if the report output is XML and generate report using XML Publisher, it takes about 1 minutes to show the parameter form.
Is there any setting should be tuning in our environment or some patches should be applied??
Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Zhxiang.

Hi All,
Is there any suggestion, for the issue that t takes long time to show the parameter form?
Thanks in advance,
Zhxiang

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