Function (or BAPI, ...) to skip calls and release calls in maintenance plan

Hi, gurus!
We need to find a function (or BAPI, ...) in order to skip a call number in a maintenance plan.
We need a function (or BAPI, ...) to release a call in a maintenance plan, too.
We could use a call-transaction to IP10, but we guess there could be problems with scroll and with pop-up warning messages.
We also thought about using IP30 but there's a problem: if there are previous calls that are not skipped, transaction IP30 releases all those previous calls and we need to skipped them.
Thanks in advance. We really appreciate your help.
Best regards,
J Madariaga

You cannot skip a call in the middle of a list of active calls - this is standard functionality.
Can you please give more info as to why you would want to do this?
PeteA

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