Remodeling a time characteristic in a cube - Doesn't allow??

I have a cube containing time characteristic 0CALWEEK.  I would like to use the remodeling toolkit so i can write some custom user exit code to replace the values in this field based on logic.  However I am not allowed to select this field!!  Why doesn't SAP allow you to remodel (change values) in any of the time characteristics in a cube??  Is there any way around this?
Thanks, Peggy

You are close to my issue.  This is a regular basic cube.  (no non-cumulative)
It contains snapshots of an 18 month plan (future dates).  We have over 2 years of snapshots.  Last year the source system sending us the plan data used a calendar that handled the weeks of 2010 differently than the SAP calendar.  (SAP buckets the first 10 days of 2010 in week 1; whereas our company only used first 3 days of 2010 as week 1).
Anyway, we have about 100 million records in these snapshots to adjust the calendar week to match up with the SAP calendar week.
All we wanted to do was to use  the remodeling toolkit on the 0calweek field and choose "replace characteristic" and populate with a bit of ABAP code.  However we are not allowed to pick any time characteristics.
We know we could always use the old standard ways to move data around to dummy cubes and fix, but that takes hours of processing for all the data we have to do.  (actually about 10 cubes this size).
So we are testing the remodeling toolkit by adding a new characteristic that "references" ocalweek and using Abap to populate that the way we want.  We can move the queries over to the new field.  That seems to be working and fast since work is done using Oracle level commands, instead of data packet by data packet.
Do you have any other ideas?
Thanks much!

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