SAP S/4HANA Administration · Dialog Processing & Lock Management

An interactive SAP GUI dialog step keeps running and eventually gets aborted after about 11 minutes. Which profile parameter enforces that limit on the modern S/4HANA scheduler, and what does it imply about where long-running work belongs?

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