Profit center security for Report Writer reports

We need to limit users access to profit center report writer reports. We attempted to add values to security object K_PCA but this did not work. I have heard there is a way to turn on objects for report writer checks but so far have been unable to figure out how this is done.

Which release are you on and how have you defined the authorizations?
If the st01 trace always returns 0 then chech the "reason code" (this is available since about 6 months).
Manually you can check it in tcode auth_switch_objects if globally disabled for the client.
Conversions to the new concept sometimes did this when they didn't want to use it.
Retro-fitting is difficult because your hierarchies might be maintained in PROD but your roles in DEV.
Tough call...

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