I'm looking for ways to restrict maintenance access for specific article characteristics for certain user groups within Article Create and Article Change(MM41,MM42). I have defined characteristics (CT04) and assigned them to Merchandise Category Levels which in turn makes them available to maintain at the article level. I need to restrict who can edit specific characteristics - for example User A can maintain characteristics X and Y, but not Z, and User B can maintain Y and Z, but not X.
I've found various authorization objects using characteristics and classification (C_TCLS_BER and C_TCLS_MNT), but these don't appear to work for this. Another variation is that SAP Retail stores the characteristic assignments using class 026 which is an internal class. When looking at the C_TCLS_MNT authorization object and defining Organization Levels which I could then assign to the characteristic/class level, class 026 is not an allowed value to define Organization Levels.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
Corey