how to change the length of the field in a physicalfile?

Answer Posted / manu som

By using CHGPF comaand we can change the pf attribute size.
And another way is

copy the physical file into another dummy file(for that
use Cpyf)
and change the physical file field length ,compile it
Then again copy the data from dummy file to original file

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