Unfortunately, SAP shifted the maintenance of master data in SAP BW 7.4 into the Web. Not everyone wants to maintain the master data on the Web. Here is a small workaround.
- Call transaction se37
 - Call function block RSDMD_MDMT
 - Put a breakpoint in line 281
 - Call transaction rsdmd
 - Select characteristic
 - Run
 - Select Variablel_use_old_ui with a double click
 - Change Value
 - Set value to X and then press Enter
 - Run
 
Now it is possible to maintain the characteristic in the BW.
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Guy Lamoureux (Friday, 31 March 2017 13:56)
Hi Tobias,
Our production is very secure so I cannot change variable values in debug mode. I will try to copy the RSDMD_ MDMT function instead. And the calling program RSDMD_MDMT_WITH_F4 . Great trick .
Danke schön.
Tobias (Friday, 31 March 2017 15:01)
Hi Guy,
thanks for your comment. Yes you could build your own Z-Program which opens the old ui.
If it works feel free to contact me again.