Stored Procedure: "Danger, Will Robinson!" or not?

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------0E3E14B18790671B17A3E91B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I created and compiled a stored procedure. It compiles and runs without error. (Appreciably increasing the apparent response time of our Java app.) The signature for the procedure is create dba procedure get_dheader_note (provid like tr_act_d.prov, cliid like tr_act_d.cli, begdate like tr_act_d.session_d, enddate like tr_act_d.session_d, begtime like tr_act_d.start_h, endtime like tr_act_d.start_h) returning yada...yada...yada...; Each of these variables is used in the where clause of a select statement in the SP. I asked that the db-engine send any compile time error messages to a file. That file contains the following lines: Line 52: identifier(provid) is a variable, not a column Line 53: identifier(cliid) is a variable, not a column Line 54: identifier(begdate) is a variable, not a column Line 54: identifier(enddate) is a variable, not a column Line 55: identifier(begtime) is a variable, not a column Line 55: identifier(endtime) is a variable, not a column What is Informix trying to tell me? Is it important that I declare these variables in some way to avoid this mysterious (to me) information? Do I ignore this information, possibly at my own peril? Any insight would be appreciated. Cheers-- Charles --------------0E3E14B18790671B17A3E91B Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="charles.johnson.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Charles Johnson Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="charles.johnson.vcf" begin:vcard n:Johnson;Charles x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Centerstone Community Mental Health Centers adr:;;2410 White Avenue;Nashville;TN;37204;USA version:2.1 email;internet:charles.johnson@dedewallace.com title:Analyst tel;fax:615-463-6503 tel;work:615-463-6527 x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:Charles Johnson end:vcard --------------0E3E14B18790671B17A3E91B--