One of your ideas has been delivered from your suggestion.Commerce Access Rules

Oracle CPQ 24B expands the functionality of Commerce Hiding Rules to allow administrators to dynamically control read/write permissions for Commerce attributes. This greatly reduces the amount of effort to control access for Commerce attributes. Administrators can now additionally select a specific Step and/or Participant Profile for the attribute’s visibility and editability behavior. Administrators can also specify access behavior in BML functions for Advanced action types.

Setting Read Only Access in Commerce Access Rules

IMPORTANT:  Commerce Hiding Rules are renamed to Access Rules to reflect the additional functionality.

Commerce Access Rules provide more flexibility for customers to administer read/write permissions for Commerce main document and sub-document attributes.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.