Background step in 'In Pocess'

Hi,
I am facing a problem at Background step, workitem status is not changing , it is in state 'In process'. if i made changes as foreground step it working fine,But not in background. even if i executing from SWI1 also status remains same.
In the mothod im executing a BDC fun.module.Please suggest.
Regards,
Rajkumar.

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SAP help says that
" " (COMMIT WORK terminates processing), "X" ( COMMIT WORK does not terminate processing).

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