1953229 - Summary - Rescue obsolete variants after the upgrade

After an upgrade(including sp/sps upgrade), variants may be characterized as obsolete. Re-adjustment is needed for rescuing the obsolete variants.

The following problems can occur:

1.) Error when start a report with a variant:

     DB 263 Import error - obsolete variant
or
     DB 634 Variant & of program & is not the current version
or
    runtime error
    "Error occurred importing object xxxxxx"

2.) Following error message is generated when try to adjust a variant

     DB 269 Error when generating program & & & &.
           Only one length specification from ... to ... is allowed for type xx

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