Mass maintenance of Mitigation controls in GRC 10.0

Dear All,
How to do mass maintenance of mitigation in ARA of GRC 10.0. We successfully migrated the mitigation controls from 5.3 to 10.0. I need to change the monitors for many user conflicts and also add new user conflict mitigation controls. Is it possible to do a mass changes in GRC 10.0 as there is no upload functionality for mitigation controls
Thanks and Best Regards,
Srihari.K

Hi Sri,
you can achieve by downloading and uploading the mitigations.
Go to SE38 and use the following program GRAC_DOWNLOAD_MIT_ASSIGNMENTS to download the file and make necessary changes to it and upload the file by using the following program GRAC_UPLOAD_MIT_ASSIGNMENTS.
and put the active column in the file as X.
Regards,
Venugopal Ireni

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Hi Jwalant,
sorry for my late reply, but I have waited for a few weeks to make be sure wheather the way you described works or not.
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INFO: -
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