Hi Amit,
Thanks for your response and It's been a good learning for me.
This option means the Article can still be listed ? but can't be sold to customer.
This is where i have a slightly different requirment, where I don't want Article to be listed for a defiend period (Exclusion module), however on one particular day in that period I would like to sell the Article due to an exceptional busienss case, In effect looking for something to overide exclusion module on one partilcular day/for a particular process (Eg., STO creation), so that listing don't block it. There might not be a solution for this problem, however though of discussing this in an open forum, as this seems to be a valid busines case.
Thanks
Siva