We had few properties where the max length was 128.

But due to recent developments business wants to remove this restriction.

We did the changes in the property rule form. It worked fine in dev environment.

But as we have moved the code to higher environments, it still keeps referring to the old property definition and keeps throwing the error message that size exceeds 128 characters.

We tried doing a re validate and save but that didn't work, so we restarted the server. Then everything was fine.

Is there a way out other than doing server restart?

Will clearing the Dictionary Cache from SMA help? A bit worried as I read in Pega help it degrades the performance (not sure how)