Cognos report get crazy during Drill-through to another report - cognos

I have a Cognos Express version 9.5 report with Drill-Through defined on a list column that open a second report passing it the coresponding data item value as parameter.
The second report open correctly showing data filtered as it should using the parameter received during drill-Through.
The problem is that the second report take forever to open and freeze my browser during various seconds... This is strange because this problem happen only when opening second report with drill-through and not when opening it directly filling in the optional parameter with a prompt...
Using browser debugger (f12) I noticed that http://my_server/p2pd/servlet/dispatch is called hundred of times before opening the second report and this is what is causing the browser to freeze...
Any idea what is happening?

Try using the 'Drill Through Assistant' to help with debugging your Drill-Through definition.
Here is a link to IBM site describing how to use the Drill through assistant.

Migrating my report to COGNOS 10.1.1 solved the problem...

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