Hi Paul, Does this describe the problem?
APAR SE54842 - Fields defined LIKE fields from an external file lack field 
characteristics in the ILE RPG Outline View. 
https://www.ibm.com/support/entdocview.wss?uid=swg1SE54842
Mike
Mike Hockings, M.Eng., P.Eng.
IBM Rational Developer for System z and Power Systems Software Technical 
Support
IBM Canada Ltd. Laboratory 
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From:   Paul Bailey <PaulBailey@xxxxxxxxxx>
To:     Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client 
for     System i & iSeries <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, 
Date:   2013-02-13 05:46
Subject:        Re: [WDSCI-L] Live Outline not showing definition of DS 
Subfields
Sent by:        wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Edmund,
I experience the problem where the outline and the hover tooltip in RPGLE 
sources refuse to show the definition of a field that is defined LIKE() 
one of the fields from one of the files defined on an F-spec - it displays 
"Unknown (0)". This happens in all /FREE and fixed sources, and is not 
corrected after an outline refresh, a cache clear, a -clean start, or a 
new workspace.
I've created a short dummy RPGLE and DDS source pair that reproduces this 
problem. Do you need anything else before I create a PMR? Speaking of 
which, what other info do I need to create the PMR? (Never created one 
before.)
I've included the sources here just in case others are interested and can 
offer advice.
[DDS => PBCATP.pf]
     A          R @PBCATP
     A            CPPROD         3          COLHDG('PRODUCT CODE')
     A            CPCTRY         2          COLHDG('COUNTRY CODE')
     A          K CPPROD
[RPGLE => PBTEST.rpgle]
     FPBCATP    IF A E           K DISK
     DPBCTRY           S                   LIKE(CPCTRY) INZ
     C     1             SETLL     PBCATP 717273
     C                   READ      PBCATP 7475
     C                   IF        *IN74=*OFF AND *IN75=*OFF
     C                   EVAL      PBCTRY = CPCTRY
     C                   ENDIF
     C                   SETON                                        LR
-Paul.
-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
On Behalf Of Edmund Reinhardt
Sent: 07 February 2013 18:40
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for 
System i & iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Live Outline not showing definition of DS Subfields
Hi Jeff,
There are 2 possible scenarios.
There is a known problem where any LIKE definitions in terms of fields 
from external files are lost as soon as you do some edits.  Hitting 
Refresh will get them back.  This is an RFE I would like to get to soon
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=29965
- feel free to vote for it.
But I also have a PMR from someone that sees his LIKE definitons not 
resolving even after Refresh (with the files in the library list of 
course).  But I have not been able to reproduce it.  If you could open a 
PMR and send in material to reproduce the problem, we will all be better 
off.
Thanks,
Edmund (E.H.) Reinhardt
COBOL IDE on AIX, DDS, WebFacing, System i Application Development, 
Rational Developer for Power
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