3538943 - Data Services Designer 4.x hanging and crashing when opening objects

• When opening objects, Designer becomes slow or unresponsive and sometimes even crashes. 

• The crash log shows the following error:

  "AL_Designer DLL Stopped responding and was closed

  Description
  A problem caused this program to stop interacting with Windows.
  Faulting Application Path: %LINK_DIR%\SAP BusinessObjects\Data Services\bin\AL_Designer.exe

  Problem signature
  Problem Event Name:    AppHangB1
  Application Name:    AL_Designer.exe
  Application Version:    14.3.2.486
  Application Timestamp:    64520ae7
  Hang Signature:    2dc3
  Hang Type:    134217728
  OS Version:    10.0.20348.2.0.0.400.8
  Locale ID:    1033
  Additional Hang Signature 1:    2dc355d4af77600e515a443e08894a3d
  Additional Hang Signature 2:    58fc
  Additional Hang Signature 3:    58fcc3245c3664f2d7e6d0e942dcdbd2"

• Windows OS

SAP Data Services Designer, latency issue, object opening, crash, on-prem repositories, Azure Cloud, file path update. , KBA , EIM-DS-DES , User Interface/Designer , EIM-DS-CON , Connectivity , EIM-DS-EXE , Job Execution , Problem