Change tracking on qualified table

Hi
We are using MDM 5.5 SP05. I want to track changes made to a field on a qualified table. I have enabled the track changes option on the console for a field with qualifier flag set to yes .Any changes I make to that field are not being recorded in the A2I_CM_History table. I m able to see records for the changes made to the main table record.
Is there some additional step required to track changes on the qualified table fields.
Regards,
Prashanta

If you working on MDM 5.5 SP03 and the field which you track for change is Non-multilingual text fields then you will have this problem. check this note
<a href="https://websmp203.sap-ag.de/~form/handler?_APP=01100107900000000342&_EVENT=REDIR&_NNUM=914190&_NLANG=E">Note 914190 - MDM 5.5 SP03 Patch01 Release Note</a>
Regards,
sanjay.

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to change more then 500 Reports more than one time
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