Too many lock entries on BUT000 in SRM7

Question

Hi,
When we are trying to update attributes of Org units through FM BBP_UPDATE_ATTRIBUTES, there are so many lock entries created for different values on table BUT000.
We are calling the said FM in loop becasue this FM has the capability of updating just one ORG unit at a time. So while the loop runs, there are a lot of lock entries created on BUT000 which are just not getting unlocked automatically.
There is a huge performance hit due to this. We are not sure how and why BUT000 entries are getting locked while updating org unit attributes.
Please suggest what should be a remedy to this.
Thanks,
Tirth

Answer 1

i dont know BUT000 table and have no idea what it does, but i suspect that it works like with every other thing in SAP system.
In DEV you mostly have not much data. E.G. in your case lets say 200 BUT000 entries.
200 lock entries aint a problem for the system.
In Quality you SHOULD have more data, up to number of data in production. If you have nearly same amount of data in Q like in P the problem should have existed in quality as well.
Another thing is that in productive MORE people work.
See there is a table where your lock entries get stored, if that table exceeds some certain amount of entries your system is going to slow down up to dumping or timeouting.
So in production system there are probably other people as well creating lockj entries with various transactions, while when you tested it in quality you were probably not much users on the system.