BW reporting preview freezes in Eclipse

[mathiasbehr]

Hi all,

since a while we have the phenomenon that if one tries to open a value help of a query variable or just wants to click to the next page of a result (without vars) in the preview, the preview window just freezes - the little animated "wheel" as well

We are using the latest Eclipse (2024-09) and tools from https://tools.hana.ondemand.com/

anyone else with this issue?
any ideas appreciated...

thx a lot in advance!
Mathias

[roland_szajko]

Hi Mathias

Does it work in RSRT?

If not, then it is reading the data which is not performant. You should do an ST12 trace to see where the most time is spent.

br

Roland

[mathiasbehr]

Hi Roland,

sorry for the delay, had a few days off, thx for your answer;

it works in RSRT and it works if I use the "copy URL" button in the Eclipse preview window and paste it in Chrome, only the Eclipse preview window freezes.
By the way - if I had known before I had used the "copy URL" earlier  😄    data load in Chrome seems to me much faster than in Eclipse...

cheers
Mathias

[roland_szajko]

While you do the reporting preview in Eclipse, is there any activity in the backend on the ABAP application server?

[mathiasbehr]

I checked in SM04 and I see the different session entries when I open different objects in eclipse, but when I start one of the above mentioned actions, nothing changes (no extra line, no change in memory usage)

[roland_szajko]

Have you checked in SM66 and in DB02 -> Threads to see if there are any running processes for your user while you run the preview?

[mathiasbehr]

Hi,

I checked in SM66 and in DB02/Threads and tried to compare the behaviour between eclipse-preview and same url in chrome but unfortunately I couldn't see a difference. Which means no "hanging" or long running threads or processes. When I start the actions in chrome and I'm fast enough I can see a tiny glimpse of a thread/process in SAP before it's done and vanished but doing it in eclipse shows nothing.
Sorry, I'm relatively new in BW and did not a lot of system-trouble-shooting so far.
Can I use the trace function to get more detailled background infos about my actions and does it make sense at all to use it, if one is not an absolute SAP-Pro?  🐵