01 My-Field LIKE Your-Field

I have a procedure with a complex data structure /COPY'd under an 01-level 
Linkage Section item. This procedure needs to extract one of the fields for 
some work, but most other fields in the data structure are not directly 
referenced. I've created a Working-storage Section field that uses LIKE to get 
the same definition as the single field that I want.

However, it looks like I need to move the Linkage Section specs ahead of 
Working-storage in order for the compiler to see the LIKE object first. Of 
course, this causes a "Working Storage out of sequence. Accepted." warning 
message on the compile; but otherwise it seems to compile fine. Without this 
sequence, I get LNC2515, "LIKE object <field-name> not defined. Clause 
discarded." as well as LNC1236, "No PICTURE for elementary item <field-name>".

I didn't see any restriction in the manual except that if the LIKE object was 
grouped with other fields that had a TYPE clause, the TYPE must be fully 
resolved first (or something similar to that). It didn't seem exactly to be 
what I was doing, but it pushed me into rearranging the order of Linkage and 
Working-storage Sections just to see if it'd work.

Has anybody else seen similar behavior? Is there are better approach than the 
one I took?

Thanks.

Tom Liotta

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