Hi Patrick,   Thanks for sharing an update for the query     The KB you reference is only for the specific case where you're using DBSASTYPE= in your libname definition. Is this the case for you? NO ,   I think the below option which you have specified sounds good, will try to take the backup of the metadata in SMC before replicating the changes. Will try to go through dev env.    If not then I believe you could just change the column metadata definition in the table so it's in sync with what you have in Oracle (not sure but I would just try in a DEV environment, may be first by playing around on a copy of the existing table metadata object to not impact on anything existing).     there is no specfic reason for doing this in EG will try to have in DIS ... View more