failed appending the query string of length 7295 in Apache Tomcat

We're getting the following error when the HTTP GET request is large:
mod_jk.log:[Wed Oct 18 11:37:20.232263 2017][12082:139812138850048] ajp_marshal_into_msgb::jk_ajp_common.c (517): failed appending the query string of length 7295

I've found several references to this error and I've tried the following, but it did not work:
1. Added worker.template.max_packet_size=65536 to this file: workers.properties
2. Added packetSize to file /usr/apache-tomcat/conf/server.xml:
    <!-- Define an AJP 1.3 Connector on port 8009 -->
    <Connector port="8009" address="127.0.0.1" protocol="org.apache.coyote.ajp.AjpNioProtocol"
                        socket.directBuffer="true"
                        URIEncoding="UTF-8" redirectPort="8443" packetSize="65536" connectionTimeout="120000"  />
3. Added LimitRequestLine 65536 LimitRequestBody 0 LimitRequestFieldSize 65536 LimitRequestFields 10000 (to /nbsnas/http/conf/httpd.conf file)
Restarted Apache for each of the above and also when all of them are set to the values above.

I'm still getting the same error.
Any ideas/recommendations is greatly appreciated.
thanks!