[progress Communities] [progress Openedge Abl] Allow Changing The Physical Database Name

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As of now the only support way I know to change the physical database name is via probkup / prorest. While this is a valid approach it consumes a lot of downtime on large database - up to some 20 hours on a 2 TB large database. Manually renaming all files and using prostrct buildb with the updated structure description seem to do the trick - except that this approach is not supported. So far I've not seen any issue with that approach. Therefore I'll take it that necessary tools to allow to change the physical database name are already in place.

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