Comments on: Physical File record length http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/pf-length/ Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:26:10 +0000 hourly 1 By: The Most-Watched IT Questions: September 27, 2011 - ITKE Community Blog http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/pf-length/#comment-97084 The Most-Watched IT Questions: September 27, 2011 - ITKE Community Blog Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:16:10 +0000 #comment-97084 [...] 9. One member is looking for help with changing a physical file record length. [...]

]]> By: tomliotta http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/pf-length/#comment-96555 tomliotta Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:17:49 +0000 #comment-96555 Usually, you don’t increase the length of a “record”. You increase the length of a field in the record, and the record length automatically gets adjusted.

As CharlieBrowne says, if this is a program-described file, you should simply recreate the file with a new record length.

But if it’s an externally-described file created with DDS, you might choose to change the DDS to update field lengths and then run CHGPF to get the file changed.

Or you might use the ALTER TABLE SQL statement to get similar results for a SQL table.

The exact procedure can be different depending on what change needs to be made. Tell us the details about the file for more information.

Tom

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