Re: Change length of Source file -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Change length of Source file
From: Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 14:54:27 -0400
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On 2012-08-03, at 2:07 PM, midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I've not thought there is a way - but this makes me wonder if ALTER
TABLE would work - probably not, might be blocked as not a method that
can be used on a file object with the source data type.

But might be worth a try!

Well I had tried CHGPF but not ALTER - but I have now. No joy.

Silly thing is it retrieves the details of the column and populates the prompt correctly but then after the command has been completely built it says it can't do it because it is not a database file.

Why on earth CHGSRCPF doesn't support it is a mystery to me. Seems to be on e of the things I would most _want_ to change.

Jon Paris

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