2069568 - BI Java OOM dumps caused by export operations

Out of Memory dumps are frequent on the Java portal.
The users run large BI Java reports and export them to Microsoft Excel.
In the heap dump, you find exceptions like:

  at java.lang.OutOfMemoryError.<init>()V (OutOfMemoryError.java:25)
  at java.lang.StringCoding$CharsetSE.encode([CII)[B (StringCoding.java:336)
  at java.lang.StringCoding.encode(Ljava/lang/String;[CII)[B (StringCoding.java:380)
  at java.lang.String.getBytes(Ljava/lang/String;)[B (String.java:610)
  at com.sap.ip.bi.export.office.common.OfficeHtmlDocument.writeOfficeHtmlDocumentToByte(Ljava/lang/String;)[B (OfficeHtmlDocument.java:252)
  at com.sap.ip.bi.export.office.common.OfficeHtmlDocument.writeOfficeHtmlDocumentToByte()[B (OfficeHtmlDocument.java:264)
  at com.sap.ip.bi.export.office.impl.excel.MsExcelConverter.getBinaryContent()[B (MsExcelConverter.java:151)
  at com.sap.ip.bi.export.impl.ExportController.getBinaryContent()[B (ExportController.java:890)

• AS Java with BI Java usage type installed and connected to a BW system.

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