I am looking for a 'second look' at what I am about to do.

The question is specifically about the domain tieser.a (Effective Unit Series) - at present, this domain has Legal Characters defined as

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" "


Due to a business requirement, I am going to remove the contents of the Legal Characters field, so that the domain will allow all characters to be entered.

My question is:
Since the change is relaxing on the validation, is it really necessary to do a "reconfigure tables" for this change, since only the validation has changed? Only future data is going to be 'non-conforming' to the old validation. The reason for this question is that, the reconfigure tables will reconfigure approximately 70 tables, some of which [example, ticst951, tisfc951, tipgc500] are more than half-million records each, and there is no 'quiet time' window available to do this.

I do realize that there is no 'going back' once this is in place without a lot of pain ...

As rightly identified by u , reconfig is not necessary . In many cases , Baan checks on its own about the requirement to do reconfig and avoids reconfig is logical. But I dont know abt this case . On a safe side, u can just do convert to runtime in a test environment . If that too is difficult , u can replace old file with .new file for domain and remove reconfig indicators in ttadv502 (after convert to runtime dd) .

I believe u know abt the implications of this. Because all programs using this may have assumpltion of data with legal characters and such program may behave differently when this assumption is violated .