1. Open the PDS001 in M3, Go Settings in Actions tab.

2. Change the Update product variants setting to 2- Always update.

3. Go back to PDS001, select the family item number, change the item status.

Example as below change the status from 20- Released to 90 -Blocked for item 800123.

So now the variants of this family item also updated from status 20 to 90- Blocked.