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Howto INCREASE External Key Size on DIRECT/KEYED files

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nmartinez@bristolind.com:
Hi all,
Is there an easy way to increase the external key size on a direct/keyed file?  This file has only one external key.
In the screenshot below, the external key size is 20, how do we go about increasing this to 30, without having to create a new direct file and then copy records from current file.
Thank you!

Ken Sproul:
To my knowledge there is no way to increase the key size of a direct file.

nmartinez@bristolind.com:
Thank you, Ken!

Mike Hatfield:
Many moons ago in the days before self-expanding files we wrote a utility program to change key size, change record length and the number of records in the file. I think I was a lot younger then  :-\

nmartinez@bristolind.com:
Thank you, Mike!
Thought that PVXPlus may have a utitlity to do this and expand the external primary key, etc..

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