Quote from shadowcaster on 10/25/13 at 12:39:16:
I cant be disassembling my boms just because its discontinued.
Why not?
In the real world you can't make something without something that's required. Say you're a mint that makes gold coins. If you discontinue gold how are you going to make coins?
Procedurally, you really should first replace the items that are on BOM with whatever the new thing is (or delete it if it's no longer necessary), and then make the item Discontinued.
If the item is on a lot of BOMs you could use Global Replace. Not sure you can replace with "nothing" though. I guess you could make a nonsense place-holder like "DISCONTINUED" and replace the actual discontinued part with it...