SEM BPS: Using Header Characteristics to lock data

Hi,
I tried to implement and found the following issue:
1. Once the data is locked if user tries to execute the layout an error message is displayed and the user cannot even view the data as opposed to data slices.
Is there any configuration that is missing, any OSS note that should be applied or that is how it is designed.
We have SEM 3.1 SP 14.
Thanks,
Akash

Hello Akash,
if one user is locking the data, no other user can go into the same layout in change mode. However, other users can open the layout in display mode.
If you are using planning folders, then the user should go to transaction UPSPMD for displaying data. If you are using web interfaces, then I suggest to have separate read-only layouts either on different pages of the web interface or using a separate web interface all together.
Regards
Marc
SAP NetWeaver RIG, US BI

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Diagnosis
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Procedure
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in RSPLSE you use the option that the BI lock table is maintained in the SAP enqueue server. Here there is a limit - as explained in the long text of the message - that the compressed selection table for one enqueue request should not have more than 999 rows. This limit can not be changed.
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