PA03 - 'Incorrect pers no.' simply hangs?

Question

In transaction PA03, enter payroll area,click 'display', in subsequent screen click on the first icon for 'incorrect pers no' or 'shift + f8'.
This should display a list of incorrect personnel numbers.
On the current production system it hangs when executing this. The point where it hangs is in include MP52XF00, main program SAPMP52X.
The code at this point is:
SELECT pernr INTO TABLE help_pernrs FROM pa0001      
             WHERE begda <= l_pv000_endda AND        
                   endda >= l_pv000_endda AND        
                   abkrs = wa_t549aga-abkrs AND      
                   pernr IN (                        
SELECT pernr FROM pa0003 WHERE abrdt <= l_pv000_endda
                          AND   pernr IN (           
SELECT pernr FROM m_premw ) ).                      
In dev and qa it works fine. In dev I copied the data from production into z* tables to try and replicate the problem as I thought it might be linked to the number of records (or specific records) in the tables i.e. (PA0001 - 102805, PA0003 - 46355, M_PREMW - 23 records). However this worked fine on dev
The code is sap standard.
There are no oss notes for this.
Any help greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Originally I was trying to manipulate the application to accomplish this, figuring it was the most elegant solution.  Before I made any changes to it the "Quiet Install Command" in the application properties was just FramePkg.exe.  I
tried putting /silent in that line.  When the task sequence got to that step it would error out with something to the effect of 'Unexpected Paramater "/Silent".'  I therefor tried /quiet but, as I expected, FramePkg.exe puts out an error
saying it doesn't recognize that as a command.  Figuring that /silent was something MDT doesn't recognize and /quiet was something FramePkg.exe doesn't recognize, I transitioned to trying the batch file approach.
With the Batch and .CMD files I have been thorough about making sure the path's are all correct.  While the task sequence is running opening a cmd prompt and entering the path to the .cmd file, exactly as it is entered into the MDT Run Command Line,
works.