How to Remove duplicate roles

Most of sap users have duplicate roles in sap.using this ABAP report we can find and remove
duplicate roles .duplicate roles nothing but if user has a same roles with different validity period

COMPRESS SAME ROLES WHICH HAVE DIFF VALIDITY

Do you know why this is happening?

Whenever user complains that no authorization for particular access which had earlier means
that transactions related role expired for that user.

Most of user admins instead of extending validity of role,again assign that role with new start
and end date.This occurs mostly multiple assigned composite roles.

PRGN_COMPRESS_TIMES is a standard ABAP report available within your SAP system(I'd

say use this report if you're not working with Central User Administration)it compresses same
roles which are assigned and make it as a single role by taking the start date and end date into
calculation(Consider least start date and highest end date)
Go to SA38/SE38

Enter PRGN_COMPRESS_TIMES

Click on Execute/F8

You can enter either role or user names, other wise leave blank.Here I am searching for
customized roles.you can find end of this scree shot simulation run option.Tick the check box
and execute then the result list shows you the before compression status.simulation run for only
test run.
Back to the screen uncheck simulation run and execute.Then all duplicate roles will be removed
from the users automatically.

TIP: To avoid this ,Before assign a role to a user, should check if the role is already assigned to
the user or not.
hope you get it.