To increase the length of a vanilla column

Hello Everyone,
I have a situation, where I have to increase a length of a vanilla column in siebel.
I have to increase the length of a base column CORP_STOCK_SYMBOL of a vanilla table S_ORG_EXT. From the tools level I can't do this as it does not allow me to.
If I can make the change from the backend, it won't reflect the same in the tools(Logical Level). But in the DB level you can see that the length has altered. But when u try to update a value and then open the application it throws an SQL error. What I am thinking is, though the length is altered at the physical level, in logical level it has not changed therefore i guess the SQL error is popping.
Or can I alter the S_COLUMN table itself? If it is done, I fear the problem while migrating this to different environment.
Please let me know the solution for this if any of you people have encountered the similar situation.

If you insist on increasing the length of the column, I would get Oracle involved.
Another option might be to use a different column or create a new column.

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