BUS2012 releaser RELEASE - BAPI_PO_RELEASE, saving releaser

Hi all,
I know, this kind of topic was already processed a couple of times, however I did not find a suitable solution for our problem.
Customer wants to be able to save (and report later) releasers of the PO. There is a new processed being implemented, which uses the (slightly modified) BUS2012 object and it's RELEASE method to release the step of the PO in the workflow. Now this calls BAPI BAPI_PO_RELEASE, but it's interface does not incorporate the RELEASER.
We can't use change documents for this purpose, as, from workflow-orientated releases there will only be WF-BATCH users releasing everything. We would be able to find the place, where CDHEAD and CDPOS are filled, but however this could be not only one place and the added value would be very low, as customer wants a transparent reporting on who and when did which release. For this purpose we enhanced the EKKO table with 16 fields (combinations of uname + date), which will serve the purpose of saving releaser / date of release for every step.
We can get the actual agent of the workflow, but I do not know how to pass him / her to the BAPI. Of course we can redefine the RELEASE method (and we also will have to), but whatever I put to a e.g. Z_BAPI_PO_RELEASE, will need to be accessed somewhere deeper (maybe in FM ME_REL_SET, maybe in ME_PURCHASE_DOCUMENT_DATA_SAVE)...
I believe this was already solved by somebody and we do have something like a best-practise to work with it. Can anybody guide me? Of course, the whole process should be ready to accept releases also from ME29N, should also be implemented for the cancellation of the release and for rejection. But this first step would be a good kick for me.
Thanks in advance.

I can give you one option:
define a new 'release' method, still calling the BAPI_PO_RELEASE but define it as dialog not background
place the task calling the new method directly after the decision task , transfer the WI_actual_agent of the decision task as the executing agent of the new task.
This way the BAPI_PO_RELEASE will be executed with the RELEASER user and not WF-BACTH.
however, this solution has a few limitations:
this will work only in SAP GUI
the user will need to have authorizations to release the PO.
But, I have created many reports simply reading the workflow logs, this is not more complected then the change documents logs. you can use function modules:
SAP_WAPI_READ_CONTAINER
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