Error during app import: Critical difference found in file OFFICE60/VVRMTDB

[Theo Kusters]

I have three Valence instances running all on version 6.2.20230526.0
In our development instance I updated an app and I want to distribute this app using the save file option.
When I try to import this update app in the production instance I receive the error message

[COLOR=#cccccc]Critical difference found in file OFFICE60/VVRMTDB (field VVCPARMS is missing or mismatched)[/COLOR]

The length of this field in the installation instance (development) 128 and in the other instances 256 (It became smaller in the newer version?)

Kind regards,
Theo

[robert.swanson]

Hi Theo,

The correct size of that VVCPARMS column is 256. I suspect the instance updater encountered some sort of exception when attempting to adjust the size from 128 during your last upgrade. You might be able to find this exception in VVGENLOG in the base instance.

In any case, to fix this issue you can just run this command in STRSQL (assuming OFFICE60 is the library where the 128 char column resides):
ALTER TABLE OFFICE60/VVRMTDB
ALTER COLUMN VVCPARMS
SET DATA TYPE VARCHAR(256) ALLOCATE(32)
CCSID 37 NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT ''

[Theo Kusters]

Manually updating the file solved the issue.
Thanks, Theo