# Increase the size of a field

**URL:** <https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/increase-the-size-of-a-field/58275>\
**Category:** Forum\
**Tags:** Adabas-Natural, Adabas, Adabas-Basics-on-Linux-Unix-Windows, Adabas-on-Windows-UNIX, Adabas-on-Linux\
**Created:** [April 19, 2007, 8:32pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/increase-the-size-of-a-field/58275 "2007-04-19T20:32:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Andrea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c37758/32.png) [@Andrea](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Andrea)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2007, 8:32pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/increase-the-size-of-a-field/58275/1 "2007-04-19T20:32:55Z")

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We need to increase the size of several fields in an existing table. What is the quickest and/or easiest way to do this?

Thank you,  
Andrea

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**Author:** ![Douglas\_Kelly](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/douglas_kelly/32/102_2.png) [@Douglas\_Kelly](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Douglas_Kelly)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 12:55pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/increase-the-size-of-a-field/58275/2 "2007-04-20T12:55:18Z")

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ADADBM, CHANGE function

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**Author:** ![Andrea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c37758/32.png) [@Andrea](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Andrea)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 6:50pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/increase-the-size-of-a-field/58275/3 "2007-05-02T18:50:56Z")

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Thank you for the quick response.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 2:39pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/increase-the-size-of-a-field/58275/4 "2021-04-02T14:39:09Z")

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